Example sentences of "[num] but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm only 22 but I feel like an old man sometimes when I see what these little kids are doin' , ’ says Superia , a three-year Lo Life veteran . |
| 2 | Injuries reduced his availability in 1988–89 but he captained The Eagles through the following season upon the club 's return to Division One , while also scoring vital goals against Portsmouth and at Cambridge in our tremendous run to the 1990 FA Cup Final , where his performances impressed observers . |
| 3 | Beta Boo¨tis ( 3.5 ) is the nearest fairly bright star to the radiant of the meteor shower seen in early January , known as the Quadrantid shower because this was the region of a constellation , Quadrans ( the Quadrant ) which was proposed by J. E. Bode in 1775 but which has been deleted from modern maps . |
| 4 | If SSP was due or paid before 6th April 1991 but you have not recovered it , you can still recover 100% of the SSP paid . |
| 5 | ‘ The Lithuanian FA say they expect to arrive between 1.00 and 1.30 but they seem rather vague . |
| 6 | Hereford went down 5-3 but they did n't do so bad |
| 7 | Erm but she , she was quite happy with her thirteen but I think a lot of the others w women , no , the they er it pulled them down terribly . |
| 8 | One , two , three , four , five , six but we do n't need seven |
| 9 | Erm er well everyone gets there for half six but it does n't exactly start till seven . |
| 10 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 11 | Backley , needing to reach the 80-metre mark , must have been sweating when his opening effort dropped short at 79.36 but he went through with his second throw of 80.76 . |
| 12 | Other factors included the fact that the liberal-nationalist unification movement looked to Prussia as the natural leader of Germany : the Frankfurt Assembly offered the King of Prussia the imperial crown in 1849 but he rejected it , disliking their excessive parliamentary vision for the new Germany . |
| 13 | Rangers manager Walter Smith still believes that Marseilles have a slight edge as they have to face Rangers at home on April 7 but he said : ‘ I 'm still optimistic about what we can do in our home games . ’ |
| 14 | That was a very shrewd thing to say in 1940 but it did not happen for nearly five years . |
| 15 | Er that was automatic ninety th er November ninety three but we 've had a problem with them so we 're negotiating . |
| 16 | I think they go to two and three but they do n't go very far . |
| 17 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 18 | I 've seen One and Three but I have n't seen Two . |
| 19 | I used to have three but I lost three sheep down when they built the university , and I have n't been able to find them , so I thought that they 'd be useful to try and locate them , you know . |
| 20 | There 's snooker at three but I think there 's a match of rugby of some sort . |
| 21 | Let's have a look at this year 's price list er it says nineteen ninety three but I say it 's carried on as far as we know er there are n't any at the moment increases . |
| 22 | He would be bald before he was fifty but I did n't think now was the time to tell him . |
| 23 | And so the very next day Helen told us of a night time that he was gon na stay and early in the morning he come back door with some papers and I said oh take well it never comes to more than six pound ninety or seven pound fifty but he calls it . |
| 24 | The plan was essentially that first worked out in 1756 but it had now been elaborated and refined . |
| 25 | Mr Lilley says his changes would save about £180m in 1995–96 but he tells the Prime Minister that Mr Portillo wants him to go further in reducing spending . |
| 26 | Er comes easily well we have here two hundred and forty eight but you know , say two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds . |
| 27 | She says : ‘ We emigrated to Australia when I was eight but I returned to England seven years ago to write songs and met Keith . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We should have had seven or eight but I think my lads ' New Year resolution is to turn my hair completely grey — we simply must find some consistency . ’ |
| 29 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
| 30 | They want it about eleven but I said , can you get down to get it ? |