Example sentences of "him [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some good men feared his radicalism , and some good men disliked his passion , and some less good men thought him little but a rhetorician . |
| 2 | ‘ We would have caught him eventually but this time it was thankfully a case of sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 3 | In the same way , the husband 's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife . |
| 4 | The ones appointed to do the job had never been very good at it , but he had heard a rumour that Horemheb was training a secret corps of police , answering to him alone but set up in the pharaoh 's name and in the interests of national security . |
| 5 | Stevenson considered him thoughtfully but decided there was little profit in going on . |
| 6 | If Keith got out of bed one or other parent would immediately return him and hold him gently but firmly until he lay quietly . |
| 7 | The dead king seems mesmerized by them as they lead him gently but determinedly down the long ramps . |
| 8 | ‘ Be my guest , ’ Ben said , and stood back out of the way while Andrew examined him gently but thoroughly . |
| 9 | The first was the support of a large majority of the French public , not just for him personally but for his policy of self-determination . |
| 10 | She greeted him warmly but he responded with a perfunctory nod and immediately got up to leave . |
| 11 | She made to run across and pull him away but was knocked down by chunks of falling masonry . |
| 12 | Maggie put her hands up to push him away but as soon as they touched his skin her palms seemed to take on a life of their own , moving over the strong muscles , her fingers wanting to curl in the crisp black hair that lightly covered his chest . |
| 13 | I feel like giving him away but I do n't know whether I would , but I feel like it . |
| 14 | Somebody took a shot not at the President they could have killed him easily but knocked off a man who could have swung thirty votes in favour of a Berlin settlement . |
| 15 | I ca n't see him physically but I meet with him in dreams . |
| 16 | The child , watching him hopefully but without understanding , shone with reflected eagerness . |
| 17 | She liked him still but felt that the familiarity of his uninvited arm about her shoulder called for backing-away tactics . |
| 18 | I tried phoning him yesterday but there were no answer and then I thought oh bugger it , forget it . |
| 19 | I go over to help and find him upright but asleep , his head against the trunk of a tree , the knife , evil-looking with a thirty-centimetre blade , half held in his hand . |
| 20 | His friend Chris would do nothing , of course , to undermine him deliberately but Patten has always been spoken about as a one-day leader . |
| 21 | I can see it You know so I 'll take him home but I promised him er Jaffa Cake when we get home |
| 22 | Yeah I 'm a bit too old for him now but er you understand . |
| 23 | She was looking at him questioningly but he could see she had caught his drift . |
| 24 | The Prior welcomed him sardonically but Corbett could see the monks were genuinely pleased to see him back . |
| 25 | Carrie looked at him sharply but he simply seemed to be in an unusually good temper . |
| 26 | Bourne looked at him sharply but said nothing . |
| 27 | Not that I fancied him before but . |
| 28 | There was nobody more glad than him really but I suppose he thought I 'd go into debt or something but I d would n't do that . |
| 29 | The doctor had wanted to bring him here but was not very happy about making the same journey twice , so he had taken him to the next valley . |
| 30 | I hear from him regularly but it 's not the same as holding them to you . |