Example sentences of "him but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm alright like cos I hardly see him but yous have him all day . |
| 2 | We did n't actually speak to him but we did get an ‘ all right boys ? ’ as he went past . ’ |
| 3 | Lady Amelia says the dogs were loosed by him but we have no proof . |
| 4 | We do n't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead . |
| 5 | I still see him but we do n't have sex any more . |
| 6 | want to lose his business so we protect him but we do n't say it 's coming from there . |
| 7 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 8 | They heard Fats Domino on the radio and tried to copy him but they got the bass drum and the snare all wrong and in the end they created this new music . |
| 9 | There were times when he felt cut off by some imponderable barrier ; the usual sights and sounds reached him but they seemed to do so through a screen of interference , like a badly tuned radio . |
| 10 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 11 | Newcastle will bid to keep him but they need the cash and the 22-goal schemer is their most saleable asset . |
| 12 | Newcastle will bid to keep him but they need the cash and the 22-goal schemer is their most saleable asset . |
| 13 | I went to several pubs looking for him but nobody had seen him , so , as it was getting late , I turned to go home to face the music . |
| 14 | His family regularly helped him but he lacked a social focus . |
| 15 | He had n't really believed him but he 'd dug all the same and his Dad had been angry . |
| 16 | He was where I had left him but he looked different as he beckoned excitedly to me . |
| 17 | There was nothing thuggish about him but he looked like a gymnast . |
| 18 | I spoke to him but he walked past me as though I was n't there … |
| 19 | He had read it out to him but he knew that he 'd missed out bits . |
| 20 | They would celebrate with him but he knew they would be envious . |
| 21 | When the youth fell overboard from the boat Boy Peter , one of two others on board threw a liferaft towards him but he failed to reach it . |
| 22 | For the bluff , reticent Arthur such wit suggests the Christmas spirit has already got to him but he added realistically that his decision depends on the state of the ground : ‘ If it 's bottomless he wo n't run . ’ |
| 23 | Philip thought he must have seen him but he had n't , because he stopped and whistled again , looking up towards the cliffs . |
| 24 | When I finished , I looked for him but he had disappeared into the kitchen . |
| 25 | Cranston saw Bonaventure fairly skipping along to greet him but he had no desire to have that bloody cat rubbing up against his leg , so hustled Athelstan out to collect their horses . |
| 26 | It surprised him but he said , ‘ Oh , OK , ’ and stayed a pace away looking troubled . |
| 27 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 28 | I did n't ask him but he said he required them . |
| 29 | So he said choice because it was his property they contacted him but he said what he 's done is though right there is n't anywhere near that amount ! |
| 30 | Anyway , th the guy we had tonight reckoned that er he never quite got to grips with er Bernstein and he 's f and he , he apologized for being stuck in restrictive which er he could n't even remember that it was called restrictive until somebody told him but he said ah yes that 's it , but yes I never managed to he said I never managed to really get very far with that . |