Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think . |
| 2 | But it had one thing missing — a proper paper . |
| 3 | This policy may have seemed ‘ reasonable ’ to the civil service , but it had two major flaws . |
| 4 | But it had 22 frets , big frets , and really loud humbuckers and that was why I liked it . |
| 5 | But it achieved 24 per cent of votes cast in communes of more than 40,000 , ie , where immigrants and their descendants are concentrated . |
| 6 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 7 | And he said er ten pound were n't it , but it made four joints , yeah |
| 8 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 9 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 10 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 11 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 12 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 13 | But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China . |
| 14 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 15 | but it took five years |
| 16 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 17 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 18 | Finally , under the obscurity of dust and smoke the Germans managed to get a foothold on the summit , but it took three more days of bitter close combat before the vital Côte 304 was finally theirs . |
| 19 | This is a schedule II controlled drug that is closely regulated by the US Drugs Enforcement Administration , but it provided 80 per cent of MD 's $15.5m turnover ( $8.4m profit ) in 1990 , so it is a profitable niche . |
| 20 | AN UNLIKELY winner , John Byme 's bright , affectionate ( and , as usual , part-autobiographical ) comedy may have been based on the dubious allure of flabby men playing rock 'n' roll in the '80s ( Scotland 's The Majestics , led by the formidable Robbie Coltrane ) but it provided umpteen memorable supporting characters , some genuinely touching , if wacky , romantic interludes and tons of '50s classics for the nostalgia vote . |
| 21 | It refused to let back the 300,000 or so who crossed to the East Bank during or after the 1967 war , but it allowed 100,000 ‘ summer visitors ’ to cross each year to maintain contact with their families . |
| 22 | ferry timetables forced a quick visit , but it allowed two good days ' walking . |
| 23 | Blenheim Palace has the kind of gardens to intimidate most keen amateurs but it welcomed hundreds of enthusiasts to its first autumn flower show , opened by palace owner the Duke of Marlborough . |
| 24 | erm , but it cost seven pounds for me and mum |
| 25 | The 1936–37 season back home was Darling 's last , but it embraced three fine achievements at the MCG : centuries in the South Australia and Queensland matches , and a recall for the third Test match , in which Australia began their fightback after losses in the first two Tests . |
| 26 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 27 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 28 | But it included two innovations : condoms were to be distributed to those adolescents who requested them , and homosexuals were to be included in the list of cultural minorities to be studied and appreciated . |
| 29 | Normally , you could have filmed a sequence where he was running , then stopped to speak , in one go , but it involved six or seven ‘ cuts ’ . |