Example sentences of "in [noun prp] but [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |
| 2 | Bu I meet a erm , a different oh , tribe in Saherli but I got married in England with my , though we make , this , I 'd say , this man to be my wife forever , but when I got home , back home in Ingeria you know , we did it in a , a different way . |
| 3 | The military passing by called up a helicopter which took her to hospital in Mogadishu but she died five minutes after her arrival . |
| 4 | Mum said how about renting one in Wisbech but I said well if she ca n't afford a mortgage you ca n't afford to rent one . |
| 5 | Nicotiana do not bloom in December but I smelled them , and with them another smell , a cigar , but James had not smoked cigars nor was there anyone near who did . |
| 6 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 7 | ‘ They were made in Florence but I bought them in Bonn . ’ |
| 8 | And er J and W in Kirkwall started to bale hay in Orkney but it did n't pay for you to take to Kirkwall everyday to go to since the war . |
| 9 | Henry III died in November 1272 , when Edward was campaigning in Sicily but he returned and , at the age of 33 , became King Edward I , and although it was his wish to finally liberate Jerusalem from the Moslem Saracens , he became involved in England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 10 | Now we have plants in India , Brazil erm we now have one in China , we were about to open one in Russia but it burned down . |
| 11 | Pedrosa was convinced that this average track runner could be transformed into a top marathoner. he eventually persuaded the authorities to allow her to run the 1982 European Championships marathon in Athens but they insisted she must run the 3000m as well . |
| 12 | Well I mean said she got them in Dickens but she said Selfridges would be favourite probably . |
| 13 | Allan was due to run in Zurich but he did n't appear , which was absolutely typical , so we still had n't raced . |
| 14 | Brancusi was almost a peasant when he arrived in Paris but he looked behind appearances at a more profound reality , which one might call the eternal reality in things . |
| 15 | There are loads of Leed supporters in Goole but they seemed to be more i interested in the young kids chucking themselves in the water jump on the running track which was right by the pitch ! |
| 16 | An 11 year old girl was attacked on the campsite at Holme Pierrepont early in August but she managed to break free from the man who grabbed her and raised the alarm . |
| 17 | The shoot used to last five or six days in August but you did n't get paid when it was finished — do n't ask me why , but we had to wait until Christmas . |
| 18 | We had tried to get a couple of er , here in Portsmouth but he had to attend , so we thought as we prepared for this conference this morning er , on the miners , that it would be appropriate to get a miner 's lamp to put and have them simply inscribed with the erm , the memory of the occasion , which turned out to be |
| 19 | The joke was hardly likely to have them holding their ribs in Helsinki but it did reflect on the inordinate importance that gambling plays in the lives of Scottish footballers . |
| 20 | The pallium gave Hygeberht no jurisdiction in Saxon territories or in Kent but it did afford him metropolitan rights over all the Anglian peoples north of the Thames and south of the Humber , which may suggest that Offa was seeking not just an archbishop of the Mercians but a new ecclesiastical order for the Angles of midland and eastern England . |
| 21 | And his adviser said well Mr President you did say we should get rid of the missiles in Turkey but you did n't say when you know , you did n't say by Tuesday morning at ten o'clock or by next week or in three months ' time , you just said withdraw the missiles from Turkey . |
| 22 | Erm that may be fine in America but we did n't think it was particularly relevant to this country although there 's nothing to stop anyone patrolling if they want to but we do n't particularly advise it . |
| 23 | She was referred to another annorexia specialist in London but she died before she could receive any treatment . |