Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no alternative for Gould but to suppress the 20 plates he had published , refund his subscribers , and go straightaway to Australia to find out what they looked like . |
| 2 | The most consistent reports were of a disturbance at a football match on March 25 in Kavaje ( close to Tirana , the capital ) where members of the crowd chanted slogans expressing support for President Ramiz Alia but attacking the repressive policies of his predecessor Enver Hoxha and the " Hoxha dynasty " . |
| 3 | He said he had not wanted to upset the head teacher at Hylands but to put the other side of the story . |
| 4 | The Andrews also climbed on Porthmoina Island but left the main cliff , its ravens , badgers and ledges of campion and sea thrift alone . |
| 5 | The government not only gave the second TV channel to the BBC but slapped the excess profits levy onto ITV . |
| 6 | Young in 1790 gave 10 to 25s ( 50p-£1.25 ) as the range for Birmingham but considered the higher level to predominate , making wages there " the highest in Europe " . |
| 7 | One was found — ‘ a pragmatic , civilized feminist who did not pretend to understand all that had happened to Laura but had the good sense to see that she was a great deal saner than her parents . |
| 8 | Corbett did not go through Edinburgh but took the same route as he had earlier followed , skirting the city , plodding his way through marsh and bog till he reached the clean , white sanctity of the Abbey . |
| 9 | So from the first he attempted to make himself master of the city — a prelude to an active policy not only to control Rome but to restore the Papal State to its old frontiers . |