Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became a pattern to work in Paris after a season or two in England but if a replacement was urgently needed , any dancer who caught her attention was likely to be shipped abroad . |
| 2 | He had played in Spain but after a car accident had come back here to recuperate . |
| 3 | Linfield 's search extends throughout the British Isles and the League of Ireland but until the championship is completed it will be impossible for them to open negotiations with certain players . |
| 4 | He was a regular at fashionable Glasgow nightclubs like ‘ La Ronde ’ in Sauchiehall Street but when the mood took him , which was most nights ending with a ‘ Y ’ , he would wander into corner pubs and hold court . |
| 5 | But we must emphasize that Daniel is the only piece of contemporary evidence from the Jewish side : it gives us what at least one Jew thought the situation to be about 164 B.C. , immediately after the reconsecration of the Temple but before the death of Antiochus IV was known . |
| 6 | The West coast side have gone off the rails in recent weeks following successive defeats by Western and Hazlehead but as the cup is realistically their last chance of glory this term they will certainly not concede defeat from the want of effort . |
| 7 | Money problems at home led to a temporary fragmentation of the family and a new school for William but when the family got back together and William returned to St Augustine 's , reports from the other school followed the previous pattern at St Augustine 's . |
| 8 | At the beginning of the novel we are reasonably sympathetic towards Pip but as the novel progresses we become less sympathetic towards him , as he becomes a snob , embarrassed of his family in Joe , and we feel that he does n't deserve sympathy as he brought it on himself . |
| 9 | He won his first four races in California but after a defeat was off to Nickerson again : do horses qualify for Frequent Flyer Privileges ? |
| 10 | It 's Wright 's ambition to establish himself at Newcastle but if the future , in terms of first team football , looks bleak he will have to consider the Forest interest . |