Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [num] [noun] " 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 | Could n't really tell you what it was now , but I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 3 | But I had two brothers . |
| 4 | But I had three glasses of sherry quickly . |
| 5 | I know I mean I stayed with him but I had three kids . |
| 6 | But I met one girl by accident when I walked into the hostel one night and she was visiting another girl there . |
| 7 | But I got 75 cents off a New Old Fashioned Patty Melt … |
| 8 | But I got two classes . |
| 9 | ‘ The pet shop refused a refund but I got one thanks to DAS , ’ he says . |
| 10 | Bill , I have been receiving home help , for which I 'm very grateful , a good service , but I paid four pound forty five a week for somebody to come in and just wash and dress my wife in the morning . |
| 11 | I used to have three but I lost three sheep down when they built the university , and I have n't been able to find them , so I thought that they 'd be useful to try and locate them , you know . |
| 12 | We the both together you could g you could go down either shaft , but you had three doors to come through from one pit to the other . |
| 13 | ‘ But you said two reasons … ? ’ |
| 14 | The military passing by called up a helicopter which took her to hospital in Mogadishu but she died five minutes after her arrival . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | She was one of the hardest toms he had ever met in his life , and he had met a few , but she had one vice : she was a dyke and liked the young girls . |
| 17 | But she had three children , yet that did n't really signify anything : cows had calves , horses had foals , pigs had litters . |
| 18 | But she told one VIP she was ‘ looking forward tremendously ’ to Saturday 's ceremony at Balmoral . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yeah but we spent three hours , Lynne , Malcolm , myself sorting that list out and everybody what was on the stock take |
| 21 | Yeah I know , but we got two hands against your one . |
| 22 | Yeah but we got three hands against their two . |
| 23 | Well the Germans was shelling and these B things but we had sixty pounder guns then . |
| 24 | But we saw two slices of great skill for his goals . ’ |
| 25 | Cheshire have traditionally be one of the stronger counties in the Western Division , but they suffered two defeats in their opening three matches . |
| 26 | Libyan police forces were of various kinds ( municipal , traffic , frontier , uniformed public security , plainclothes detective , and secret ) , but they shared one characteristic : the policemen usually lived in their own homes , in the towns and oases in which they had rights to land . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Nothing is known of his first wife whom he married c .1730 , but they had two daughters . |
| 29 | They belonged to they were ships you know , but they had one sailing ship , the herself , They made a road into quarry you see . |
| 30 | 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 . |