Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 And you seeing what you 're playing tonight , I thought I ca n't , but I heard the first thing der der der , but then it goes der der der
2 ‘ No war would ever reach this part of the world , ’ said Robins , ‘ but I remember the last in Europe .
3 But I mean the first step is always the hardest .
4 I mean , I , I did what I could in the fifth issue , but you just run out of cash , that 's the trouble , but I mean the sixth issue is good .
5 I 'm not a great fan , but I enjoyed the first one , The Tempest , enormously and the evening went in a flash .
6 You know , if the wa I 'll have that but but I had the last bit before that .
7 But I left the first of her three Sunday night shows feeling vaguely let down after a set that mixed the great with the gaffs .
8 But I scored the last two goals in the second half . ’
9 ‘ Forgive me , Marshal , but I thought the last two places were to be filled by working scientists . ’
10 I was not aware that circumcision might be a painful , controversial , and perhaps an unethical procedure , but I planned the next attempt in compliance with the editor 's requests .
11 I thought it were fair , but I read the next bit What 's this one ?
12 I do not want to add to the controversy that we had earlier by saying that , yet again — and I congratulate them on this — our colleagues have obtained more in the English legislation than we have — The Minister indicates dissent , but I won the last argument and I am not sure whether he wants another one at this late hour .
13 Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while
14 Well , for a hundred miles or an hour , but you did a tenth of a mile in a , a thousandth of an hour .
15 But she swung the second door in her hand uncertainly .
16 Mary McKenna , playing in the tournament for the 25th year , could have made it a tie by winning the bottom match but she lost the 15th and 16th to go two down , won the 17th with a big birdie putt and salvaged a half when her opponent , Fiona McKay drove into bushes at the 18th .
17 Thirty six so that was one way of working out a tenth of it but we want a fifth .
18 Sweden 's Maria Gretzer , on Marcopille , was one but they had the next fence down and were among 10 sharing third place with four faults .
19 About 70 million years ago the brain of the most advanced animals had cerebral hemispheres , but they composed a third or less of the whole brain .
20 I separated them but they died the next day .
21 At the time of writing I have not been able to hear any of the discs , but they include the first integral recording of the ten Mahler Symphonies complete sets of Brahms , Beethoven and Shostakovich , Stravinsky , Gershwin and Copland , plus concertos with Serkin , Stern and Francescatti .
22 Lyle , starting at the 10th , began badly with a bogey five but he birdied the 15th , 16th , first , sixth and seventh holes .
23 But he had the last laugh — the Blades dumped Manchester United 2–1 on the opening day !
24 Simon Wigg says that everybody was laughing at him because the bike looked so different but he had the last laugh … won the title and that 's what it 's all about …
25 He was elected for Cardiganshire in 1885 , but he opposed the first Irish Home Rule Bill introduced by W. E. Gladstone in June 1886 .
26 But he posted the second letter now , before he took the Bakerloo line to Kilburn .
27 Culley thought that too , but he made a last try .
28 But he called the next one , too .
29 But he warned the next would be bigger and would bear directly on what a Labour government could do .
30 ANDY THORN 'S matchwinner ensured Crystal Palace 's revival continued to gather pace — but it meant a sixth defeat in eight games for Leeds , the crumbling champions .
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