Example sentences of "[noun prp] but his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't mentioned David Markham but his presence had hung between them like a spectre and his name had n't been mentioned since . |
| 2 | He thought of trying this fancy on Cameron but his face looked so closed and dark , eyes narrowed and mouth-corners turned right down , that it forbade pleasantry . |
| 3 | He had completed his secondary education in Jamaica but his mother implored him to continue in England . |
| 4 | If a manufacturer in Hong Kong sells his goods to a merchant in Manila the payment which he receives is no doubt sourced in Manila but his profit on the transaction arises in and is derived from his manufacturing operation in Hong Kong . |
| 5 | He is disliked among liberal Serbs but his method of pillaging in Bosnia and Croatia has made him a very rich man and in the fragile economic state of former Yugoslavia , rich men are very powerful . |
| 6 | A second after that and , her heart suddenly racing , Fabia dashed over to the phone — and was sorely disappointed that the call , though an outside one and not Reception , was not from Ven but his secretary . |
| 7 | He had outlived both James Dean and Montgomery Clift but his film career was floundering . |
| 8 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 9 | Like his ancestor , King David , he will rule over Israel but his reign will be for ever . |
| 10 | The presenter was as black as Viv Richards but his accent was West End and not West Indies . |
| 11 | The Preston North End boss celebrated his 44th birthday on Sunday but his fate had been sealed 24 hours earlier with the 2-0 home defeat against Hartlepool . |
| 12 | He used to live in Thirsk but his mistress became too ill to look after him . |
| 13 | These are some of the ways in which we may expect the Spirit of God to illuminate not only the person of God but his will for us . |
| 14 | The ball broke to Albert Craig but his shot , from a tight angle , rebounded from the post . |
| 15 | There are four bollard-making companies in Britain but his factory , at Carterton in Oxfordshire , turns out the most . |
| 16 | On 23 minutes Gary Peebles ' cross from the right was dropped by goalkeeper Nicky Brujos ; the ball dropped to Ritchie Johnston but his goalbound effort was cleared off the line by Kieran Loughran . |
| 17 | Caccini was always more interested in song as such and his most important work is not Euridice but his collection of solo songs , Le nuove musiche ( Florence , 1602 ) , with figured bass — which he describes in his preface as ‘ bass for the chitarrone ’ . |
| 18 | Rod Morris was born in Southampton but his family kept moving around the country , and that continual movement is very likely the cause which has aggravated him into producing his latest body of work , ‘ Planes and Boats and Trains ’ , which was recently exhibited at Sir John Cass School of Art . |
| 19 | Rod Morris was born in Southampton but his family kept moving around the country , and that continual movement is very likely the cause which has aggravated him into producing his latest body of work , ‘ Planes and Boats and Trains ’ , which was recently exhibited at Sir John Cass School of Art . |
| 20 | Robert Eccleshall has fewer pretensions than Ted Honderich but his book is much more coherent . |
| 21 | His name is Thomas Kasonde but his friends call him Texas . |
| 22 | His father died on Thursday but his family decided not to tell him until after yesterday 's race . |
| 23 | Thursday but his family decided not to tell him until after yesterday 's race . |
| 24 | ( He has moved towards HAMLET but his nerve fails . |
| 25 | This has already been pointed out by Hoffman but his advice has been ignored . |
| 26 | was born in Suffolk but his family soon moved to Horncastle , Lincolnshire , where his father ran the local maltings under . |
| 27 | McCann 's excellent cross found McDonald but his header skimmed the bar with the goal at his mercy . |
| 28 | We told you last Sunday that Forest had swooped for top French defender Laurent Blanc but his wages at Napoli were a stumbling block . |
| 29 | A routine straight sets quarter final victory looked on the cards for Edberg but his serve began to misfire badly while unseeded Morgan 's own delivery proved too much of a handful for the world No 3 . |
| 30 | The architect was K. I. Dientzenhofer but his plans may have been executed between 1711 and 1715 by F. A. Lurago . |