Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 2 | The win took the Republic back up to second place in the Group behind Spain on goal difference but they had enough chances to close the six-goal gap on the pace-setters . |
| 3 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 4 | They quashed the murder charge but he got ten years for intent to wound resulting in death , plus , of course , half as much again because there was a firearm involved . ‘ |
| 5 | The church was not in permanent use and had no resident vicar but it held occasional services and now at Christmas an elderly cleric in retirement had volunteered to conduct a sung Eucharist at nine-thirty with the help of a volunteer choir assembled from the Women 's Institute . |
| 6 | ‘ Anders is not in that category but he has other things to offer . |
| 7 | I mean I I had the guitar stuff done within an hour but it getting all vocals over-dubbed and doubling everything up and then , it took forever to mix it together . |
| 8 | I knew almost nothing about physics but we shared some jokes about the Rome telephone system . |
| 9 | ‘ The pet shop refused a refund but I got one thanks to DAS , ’ he says . |
| 10 | In the final Cadwallader struggled to stay in touch with the top class domestic field but he exceeded all expectations by taking more than four seconds off his best time when he ran 3m 44.04s in Saturday 's heats . |
| 11 | I 'd have hoped the England team would have been selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more |
| 12 | ‘ I would have hoped teams were selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more . |
| 13 | China is already a big exporter of tungsten but it has major reserves of titanium , tin , copper . |
| 14 | The game was all ticket but I found little problems obtaining a ticket , going down Friday lunchtime and obtaining a spare ticket from a Southampton supporter . |
| 15 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 16 | Similar conclusions can be drawn about the number of jobs held in an average career but there remain marked differences according to age , educational background , gender and size of firm . |
| 17 | ‘ Chester have the lowest Third Division average but they play 45 miles away at Macclesfield . |
| 18 | ‘ Tyne Tees then made a request to transmit the match in the Tyne Tees area but we have strict rules about live transmissions in our contract with ITV and these could not be met . ’ |
| 19 | The father did not say a word but he shovelled many sandwiches into his mouth and swatted the occasional fly which landed on his fat body . |
| 20 | Rather this is a feature which is unique to that particular generation or cohort but which has profound implications for the provision of family care to older people in the community . |
| 21 | John Smith may of necessity have toured the prawn cocktail circuit of the City but he represents those parts of the UK deeply suspicious of its working . |
| 22 | If you mount up your Warlord or Shamans on big monsters you will substantially increase their fighting potential but they become easy targets for the enemy . |
| 23 | ‘ Some people accept the cost but I feel 38 francs is a bit steep . |
| 24 | well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots |
| 25 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |
| 26 | I 've got no idea but I mean some pictures are very expensive |
| 27 | Vertical integration which does not come about through merger but which has anticompetitive consequences is a potential concern of the FTA if it involves a monopoly situation . |
| 28 | In many ways the movement was a distant bogey but it worried many landowners whose rent rolls were hit by the heavy load of poor rates , now a quarterly impost almost everywhere . |
| 29 | A spokesman for the company said : ‘ You ca n't get away from sewage smells at a sewage plant but we do various things to help reduce the nuisance . ’ |