Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I tried to keep one thing — the foot — in focus throughout , because it seemed to be moving slowest . ’ |
| 2 | I shall not go over all that ground again , but I want to mention one point . |
| 3 | I do not support the new clause , but I want to bring one aspect of it to my right hon. Friend 's attention . |
| 4 | ‘ One signing is imminent but I want to bring two players in , ’ he said . |
| 5 | But I need to make three pound , cos I owe Anne a bit of money do n't I ? |
| 6 | Then that would sort of feed itself , but you had to have one man feeding the the scrapping machine and another man with a shovel , pulling away the the the the the the scrapped at the side and then you had to have another man feeding the long hay into the chaff cutter . |
| 7 | But she has to run 23.30 secs or faster to secure a place in the British team for Barcelona and , still hampered by an Achilles tendon injury , she does n't think she 'll do it . |
| 8 | Me : But we had to buy two books of Metro tickets . |
| 9 | We do n't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead . |
| 10 | Two of these halves on a turtle design erm er the door had two halves but they managed to put one part like that , cut |
| 11 | But they wanted to do 65 programmes ! |
| 12 | But they have to put fifty pence into the |
| 13 | But for foreigners it is different , but they have to pay three times the Austrian fees . |
| 14 | His first Grand Prix was the 1951 Swiss when he was in a British HWM but he had to wait four years for his first success . |
| 15 | And the second servant does n't do quite as well , he erm but he manages to make five talents out of his one talent . |
| 16 | His shoulder hit the floor with a thud that knocked the wind out of him but he managed to get one hand under the vase at full stretch and slithered across the marble floor juggling the smooth-glazed porcelain above his head . |
| 17 | But he seems to have one problem that I 'm too embarrassed to ask him about . |
| 18 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 19 | At one time , the Hang Seng Index was down 116 points , but it recovered to close 98 points lower at 4,827 . |