Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But I tell you one person who 's getting on my nerves is that good looking son at McDonalds .
2 Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay .
3 I am not going to go in to all the details , but I give you one example .
4 Not up to date , but she does them six months in advance .
5 ‘ Marseille lead the group and remain the favourites to go through , but we gave them two goals of a start at Ibrox and still drew with the French on a night when injury prevented us from having Ally McCoist . ’
6 I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ?
7 Cayard was recalled instantly by the committee but it took them 40 seconds to hoist the French recall signal , by which time they were well up the track .
8 I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’
9 ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says .
10 I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast .
11 But it hit me one day , he did n't care or he would have made that effort to come and see me and he did n't .
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