Example sentences of "[num] but his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comedian Tom O'Connor plays off a handicap of 10 but his Christmas offering From The Wood to the Tees ( Robson , £10.95 ) comes up to scratch . |
| 2 | In Hebron Sheikh Ja'bari established a Centre for Islamic Studies ( later , Hebron University ) in 1971 but his motive was less religious than political . |
| 3 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 4 | His last UK hit , Dimples , was in 1964 but his 28-year absence from the charts was not quite enough to beat Eartha Kitt , who disappeared from the charts in 1955 and did n't return until 1983 . |
| 5 | Eadberht 's son and successor , Oswulf , perished on 24 July 758 but his successor , Aethelwald Moll , did not begin to reign until 5 August . |
| 6 | William III is really William IV ( and we 're not talking William of Orange , who was variously known as Sweet William and Stinking Billy on the opposing sides of the religious divide in Ulster ) : the Daily Telegraph City Diary notes that Microsoft Corp chairman William Gates III is really William Gates IV but his dad wanted to seem more of a regular guy to his army pals and so he promoted himself to William Gates Jr . |
| 7 | He was a distant cousin to James IV but his father had been exiled to France so he had been reared and educated in the French fashion . |
| 8 | Dick had qualified from London in 1817 but his new school was too remote from London to affect Coleman 's autocracy and there developed two monopolies , the old one in London and a new one in Edinburgh . |
| 9 | He knew he was never going to be good enough for Formula One but his father would n't listen . |
| 10 | By the end of the campaign , his average image score had risen to 65 but his score on standing up to the USSR had dropped to 56 . |
| 11 | He managed the first two but his love of a big fried breakfast at his home in Lytham St Annes , meant he never managed to lose much weight . |
| 12 | He managed the first two but his love of a big fried breakfast meant he never managed to lose much weight . |
| 13 | , Henry William ( 1772 ? –1842 ) , civil servant , was born about 1772 but his origins , and much of his career , are shrouded in mystery . |
| 14 | He was banned five times between 1964 and 1967 but his flexibility as a player was such that Bremner played as a winger and a sweeper for Leeds United before he became the club 's midfield dynamo . |
| 15 | He had achieved a position of some prominence in the Senate between 1942 and 1944 but his choice as Roosevelt 's vice-presidential running mate at the Democratic convention in July 1944 had come as a surprise . |