Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PC Kelly went on : ‘ I did not hear anything but I saw two flashes from the barrel of the gun and I presumed he had shot Goodman twice . ’ |
| 2 | When nobody else is here but I mean one definition of that is that you 're asleep yeah . |
| 3 | Could n't really tell you what it was now , but I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 4 | But I had three glasses of sherry quickly . |
| 5 | But I met one girl by accident when I walked into the hostel one night and she was visiting another girl there . |
| 6 | But I got 75 cents off a New Old Fashioned Patty Melt … |
| 7 | ‘ The pet shop refused a refund but I got one thanks to DAS , ’ he says . |
| 8 | But I have one word of advice to contributors to this debate . |
| 9 | The above examples came from three different speakers from East London , but I have one example from South East London as well . |
| 10 | But I have two reasons for choosing Fanny . |
| 11 | ‘ But I have two youngsters in Stuart Spruce and Paul Atcheson who will hopefully put Jonathan under pressure . |
| 12 | But you see three quarters of an hour , if we , if we , when er Ken , Ken and Freda 's an hour and a half , er , it soon goes an hour and a half with company like that do n't it ? |
| 13 | The military passing by called up a helicopter which took her to hospital in Mogadishu but she died five minutes after her arrival . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course you can , ’ she said , taking his arm and walking him towards the bay window , but she kept one eye on the painting in case they were tempted . |
| 15 | Hartlepool schoolgirl Sarah Gascoigne , who missed the county championships when she was on a family holiday in America , was five seconds outside the qualifying time in the junior girls ' 800 metres with a time of 2:25.0 but she cleared 1.50 metres as a guest in the high jump , four centimetres inside the English Schools qualifying height . |
| 16 | Yeah I know , but we got two hands against your one . |
| 17 | Yeah but we got three hands against their two . |
| 18 | But we saw two slices of great skill for his goals . ’ |
| 19 | They were absolutely not a disaster for women , obviously I would have preferred to stay on the shadow cabinet , but we have three women in the shadow cabinet , and we have a number of women in senior positions outside the shadow cabinet . |
| 20 | Cheshire have traditionally be one of the stronger counties in the Western Division , but they suffered two defeats in their opening three matches . |
| 21 | Guatemala , receiving a one-goal handicap start , surprisingly led 5–1 at the end of the first chukka as the Argentines appeared very nervous , but they scored four goals in the second chukka and dominated the rest of the game . |
| 22 | In reply , Boycott and Brearley put on no less than 129 for the first wicket — jolly good in a Test , but they took thirty-eight overs about it , with Boycott not getting into double figures until the seventeenth over . |
| 23 | The London surgeons , however , had only 938 beds regularly available ( an average of 19.2 per team ) compared with 988 ( 32.4 per team ) outside London , but they treated 32.7 patients per bed compared with the 26.7 treated by their colleagues outside London ( 49% and 42% , respectively , were elective admissions ) . |
| 24 | The large number of astronomy books published may be varied in their presentation , topics , standards of difficulty and reader orientation , but they have one thing in common : the author 's open enthusiasm for the subject and desire to put it across . |
| 25 | India 's openers produced their first half-century stand of the series , but they lost three wickets before reaching three figures , and another at 102 , when Vengsarkar , stretching down the pitch , was unamused to be given out lbw to Hughes 's slower ‘ googly ’ . |
| 26 | He was only a little 'un , but he got one weight over his head all right . |
| 27 | 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 . ‘ |
| 28 | But he finished six lengths behind the winner Arcangues , who could manage only eighth place in the Coral Eclipse at Sandown , losing second place on the post . |
| 29 | Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing . |
| 30 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |