Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This matter has caused me great concern and problems early in the Parliament , but I hope in the next 24 hours to show where my true attitudes lie . |
| 2 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 3 | But I suppose in the last resort , they must have thought that the less sophisticated engineering featured here is only likely to attract a specialist audience . |
| 4 | But I paid for the first of March so I 've lost li literally fourteen days have n't |
| 5 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
| 6 | But I have over the last six months had occasion to discuss this very matter with a number of very highly placed Americans , and it seems to me that thinking in that country is much more far-sighted than that represented by their countryman here . |
| 7 | Her action against the school ( the first defendants ) failed but she recovered from the second defendants . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | We discuss this later version in the next section , but we begin with the first ( and now obsolete ) version of the logogen model since the evolution of the second version from the first is instructive . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In Scotland and Wales there is the same pressure for equal treatment but it comes in the first instance from MPs who will pounce on any discrepancies and ask why England ( or Scotland and Wales ) is receiving special treatment . |
| 12 | ’ But it appears from the fourth plea that that marriage had already been agreed on , and that the testator knew it . |
| 13 | 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 . |