Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rhaw 's collection of Newe deudsche geistliche Gesenge ( 1544 ) was not the earliest collection of polyphonic Lutheran hymn-compositions — Walter 's Gesangbüchlein ( see p. 220 ) reached its fifth edition in the same year and the Concentus novi trium vocum of Hans Kugelmann ( d. 1542 ) had appeared at Augsburg in 1540 but it was by far the most important . |
| 2 | The Marquess married his wife Becky in 1990 but he now lives apart from her and their son . |
| 3 | The insurance giant has had an office in Glasgow 's West Regent Street since 1988 but it now plans to purchase the four times bigger and brighter Fitzpatrick House in the heart of the city . |
| 4 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 5 | He went to work for the Gas Light & Coke Company at Beckton in 1908 but he soon chafed at not being given the free rein to which he had become accustomed at Davis Bros . |
| 6 | A major discovery was made at Jabirn in the Timor Sea in 1983 but it has been estimated that similar discoveries on a yearly basis would be necessary if increasing oil imports are not to be required in the future to maintain present levels of consumption . |
| 7 | ‘ I may not like London over much but I do know a bit about the place and one thing I know is that it 's big , bloody big . |
| 8 | When Bukharin , in his speech to the Sixth Congress , emphasised that the Latin American Communist parties ‘ had an important role to play in the development of national and agrarian revolutions ’ , Brazilian delegate Fernando Lacerna somewhat tartly pointed out that a Communist movement had existed in Latin America since 1920 but it was only in 1928 that ’ the Communist International [ had ] shown its interest in Latin America for the first time ’ ( La Correspondance Internationale ( organ of the Communist International ) , 1928 , in Alba : 1964 , p. 188 ) . |
| 9 | There 's only Errol Flynn on other but they 're black and white . |