Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [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 | I 'm not a great fan , but I enjoyed the first one , The Tempest , enormously and the evening went in a flash . |
| 3 | You know , if the wa I 'll have that but but I had the last bit before that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ But I scored the last two goals in the second half . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Forgive me , Marshal , but I thought the last two places were to be filled by working scientists . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well , for a hundred miles or an hour , but you did a tenth of a mile in a , a thousandth of an hour . |
| 10 | But she swung the second door in her hand uncertainly . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I separated them but they died the next day . |
| 15 | Lyle , starting at the 10th , began badly with a bogey five but he birdied the 15th , 16th , first , sixth and seventh holes . |
| 16 | But he had the last laugh — the Blades dumped Manchester United 2–1 on the opening day ! |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | He was elected for Cardiganshire in 1885 , but he opposed the first Irish Home Rule Bill introduced by W. E. Gladstone in June 1886 . |
| 19 | But he posted the second letter now , before he took the Bakerloo line to Kilburn . |
| 20 | Culley thought that too , but he made a last try . |
| 21 | But he called the next one , too . |
| 22 | But he warned the next would be bigger and would bear directly on what a Labour government could do . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |