Example sentences of "[verb] [num] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 2 | This week Unisys previews a far-flung range of ‘ Pentium-ready ’ machines , currently using 80486s but designed to be seamlessly upgraded to 60MHz Pentiums in the third quarter . |
| 3 | Traffic congestion caused by ‘ premature maintenance ’ can cost millions but does not always get reported in time PHOTOGRAPH : MARTIN ARGLES |
| 4 | A typical example of a confidential collection of information might be a list of customers ( see for example Robb v Green [ 1895 ] 2 QB 315 and Summers ( William ) & Co Ltd v Boyce & Kinmond & Co ( 1907 ) 23 TLR 724 and Bullivant ( Roger ) v Eillis Ltd [ 1987 ] ICR 464 but cf Auto Securities Ltd v Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd [ 1965 ] RPC 92 ) . |
| 5 | It was just before the Battle of Alamein — Bletchley was providing Montgomery with vital intelligence — and , had I but known it , Leslie was , almost at that same moment , listening on the wireless to ‘ One Fine Day ’ , and suffering because he thought he would never see me again . |
| 6 | Had I but known … |
| 7 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 8 | Woolwich Tabernacle , erected between 1895 and 1896 , sat 1,690 but cost only £13,936 for both the land and the building . |