Example sentences of "but [prep] the [num ord] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |
| 2 | Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles . |
| 3 | But for the thousandth time I do n't do anything and we get to the bathroom safely . |
| 4 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |
| 5 | I knew that it did not , and could not , but for the next week I found myself despairing as if it did . |
| 6 | But during the next decade they were once again held in Waltham Forest : offences were presented by juries from each ward of the forest , and proved by the Forest officers . |
| 7 | She says — at first he was quite nervous , but after the first day he became much more confident and started his David Bellamy act , waving his arms about … |
| 8 | She had received a few blows in her time , but after the first shock she had swung back . |
| 9 | With all my might I stamped at its head , but missed it by a couple of inches ; again I stamped with the same extraordinary result ; but with the third stamp I caught the poor little creature and crushed it to pulp , and yet it gave one more thrust with its tiny legs and then lay still . |
| 10 | I 've been lucky enough to get two lots through , but with the third lot I did n't succeed . |
| 11 | The marriage primarily affects the parties thereto ; but in the second degree it may be an object of interest with a near relative , and in that sense a benefit to him . |
| 12 | Swindon could have made double figures … with a little more accuracy and determination … but in the second half they eased back … the hard work had been done … |
| 13 | But in the first instance you 'll get these . |
| 14 | The remedy could be screening , but in the first instance it is reasonable to hope that it will average out . |
| 15 | But in the first place I believe we should direct our attentions to unschooled lay usages of the word . |
| 16 | Maggie had the greatest desire to answer in Spanish and confound him , but in the first place she was n't exactly up to it , and secondly she was keeping it under her hat . |
| 17 | The museum with old apparatus and machinery is one kind , but in the nineteenth century it was the museum as a centre of research in current science which was more important . |
| 18 | In Western art there had been artistic programmes and manifestos before Impressionism , but in the twentieth century they proliferated . |
| 19 | We shall continue to make arbitrary choices in this selection but in the next section we will discuss how such choices may be resolved more sensibly . ) |
| 20 | no , no , not now , but in the sixth form you spend two weeks |
| 21 | The Te Deum was never the most popular text amongst composers of the pre-Baroque , but in the eighteenth century it enjoyed a new , though rather limited , vogue : from Purcell and Handel to Haydn , festive settings with large and colourful forces became the norm . |
| 22 | Love and death have always been themes exciting the imagination of poets ; but in the last century they figured in works of art and literature to an extent that was almost obsessional . |
| 23 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 24 | But in the last year we 've taken some very bold steps . |
| 25 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |
| 26 | The Party Secretary , like a British prime minister , could have great influence and authority , but in the last resort he was essentially primus inter pares — first among equals — and had to carry his colleagues with him . |
| 27 | It is they who govern , but in the last analysis it is the people who rule themselves . |
| 28 | But in the last round she had two fences down on the most difficult course , with Mandevilles Supreme , the mount of William Funnell , another of the finalists . |
| 29 | You lost a fair amount of weight to begin with but in the last week you have only dropped 1 lb ( 0.4 kg ) and you are disappointed with progress . |
| 30 | When Jean 's turn came for her third , she fully expected it to be as straightforward as Billy and Berta , but in the last week she got a lot of bleeding . |