Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I paid for the first of March so I 've lost li literally fourteen days have n't |
| 2 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
| 3 | A long search ensued for similar formulae in terms of radicals ( that is , formulae involving unc and the coefficients of the given equation ) for the roots of equations of higher degree , but none appeared until the 16th Century when a formula for the cubic was found by the Italian Niccolo Fontana ( more commonly known as Tartaglia , " the stammerer " , because of a speech impediment brought about by injury in childhood ) . |
| 4 | Her action against the school ( the first defendants ) failed but she recovered from the second defendants . |
| 5 | but , erm , she was hoping to come to the meeting this evening , but she phoned at the last minute and said she could n't make it , but erm , I do n't know if it would be more appropriate perhaps for the schools groups to get in touch with her and I |
| 6 | Frank soon became a prolific scorer for the Reserves but he graduated to the first team as the ideal foil to the great goal-scorer , Peter Simpson , having begun by deputising for the master when Peter was out injured . |
| 7 | With a little moan of fear she scrambled out of the car and raced to the house to hammer on the door , but it opened at the first blow from her fist . |
| 8 | Well , but what happened during the Second World War when all these children were undergoing much more traumatic experiences then ? |