Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a perm on Friday and then rushed off to the dentist for an emergency white cement type filling to fill my Friday 13th loss ( ! ) — maddening to have to go back again as it is the other side of town , but I walked the two miles or so home , along with Bella . |
| 2 | Yesterday afternoon was misty and bitterly cold , but I walked the four miles to Wuthering Heights and arrived just as it was beginning to snow . |
| 3 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 4 | As someone who made little enough progress beyond Youll Cup school tennis and county junior teams in 20 years , I remain to be convinced but I enjoyed the three hours I spent reading the book . |
| 5 | I know most of you will have seen the 7–0 vs Southampton ( 32 passes was n't it ) , or the 5–1 vs Man Utd , but I reckon the 4–0 murder of Aston Villa ( who were in the top 5 at the time ) at Villa Park and the 6–1 at Hillsborough were some of the best soccer I have ever seen . |
| 6 | But I think the twenty pounds extra for another telly is the one that er you might like to comment on this morning . |
| 7 | He was a bit too horny to start with , but she had the four children and it was n't a problem now . |
| 8 | ‘ We can do an awful lot better than that but we have the two points and that 's what matters . |
| 9 | But they lack the three essentials : they do not evolve , they do not process energy , and they can not be called organisms . |
| 10 | But they completed the 353 miles of special stages 98th out of 102 finishers . |
| 11 | A single Goblin can continue to use the huge prodder to keep back the Squigs and fight , but he loses the +1 strength bonus as the prodder is exceptionally unwieldy . |
| 12 | The exercise shaved off $4bn from the 1990 target , but it raised the 1989 deficit by an equal amount . |