Example sentences of "him [adv] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Stevenson considered him thoughtfully but decided there was little profit in going on . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She liked him still but felt that the familiarity of his uninvited arm about her shoulder called for backing-away tactics . |
| 5 | Bourne looked at him sharply but said nothing . |
| 6 | She glared at him venomously but went out , came back with the machine , sucked up the snow , left without a word . |
| 7 | Tammuz looked at him askance but said nothing . |
| 8 | Beaumont said : ‘ I have thought about running him again but have decided that is it for now . |
| 9 | His impulse to clutch at her and lift her skirt and dabble with finger and thumb in her recesses led to a quick shame , and he was so appalled that he could not push her from him either but let her , still attached to his hand , mutter her compliments , in disjointed phrases falling pell mell . |
| 10 | ‘ He told them to leave the house immediately and it would appear that they did not take him seriously but laughed when he said this . |
| 11 | He felt rather than saw the two girls glance at him appraisingly but took no notice . |