Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He confirmed that Scottish police visited Talb on Tuesday but said his client refused to speak to them . |
| 2 | Glenn , who has one daughter and two grand-daughters , said he was very impressed with the NHS but thinks his was a case of being in the right place at the right time . |
| 3 | Richard has gained power by the successful interchange of the two resources that Machiavelli ( as so often , drawing on Cicero but ignoring his moral scheme ) singled out as the means by which legitimate rule could be overcome , force and fraud : So he recommended that the Prince who wishes to succeed must not only unite the attributes of the fox and the lion , fraud and force , but in addition |
| 4 | A prosecution for altering the parish assessments failed , and the vestry not only passed a vote of confidence in Merceron but paid his expenses out of parish funds . |
| 5 | He , we know , was employed by the young democracy of Athens at the end of the century to make bronze statues of the Tyrannicides two aristocrats who had failed in an attempt on the life of Hippias but killed his brother Hipparchos . |
| 6 | The son of an Australian physicist , he was born in London but made his name initially in several Australian movies and came back to London in 1949 as a protégé of Laurence Olivier . |
| 7 | At last Cedric Mellings sighed , opened his eyes and , having thought out his position , leaned forward , and without looking at Alice but keeping his eyes down , said , " Very well , you took the money , if you say so . |
| 8 | Industrial dissent may be simmering in the orchestra pit , but the musicians played well enough under their musical director , Robert Dean , who replaced Nicholas McGegan but retained his forthright ( and occasionally cavalier ) approach to tempo and dynamics . |