Example sentences of "but i [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 2 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 3 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 4 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 6 | ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had . |