Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] but [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is a pretty daunting prospect going on stage for forty minutes but it does not seem to have fazed her . ’ |
| 2 | It is a pretty daunting prospect going on stage for forty minutes but it does not seem to have fazed her , ’ said the millionaire producer . |
| 3 | ‘ I left the treatment on for about 10 minutes but I did n't really have the time to use a plastic cap . |
| 4 | Aye , but I 've been chewing them buggers this last six months but it has n't worked for me |
| 5 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 6 | Of course there are cards on the market with more memory and processor power to drive expensive monitors at high resolutions ( like 1280 by 1024 ) and 256 colours but they cost well over £1000 . |
| 7 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International , released to coincide with the anniversary and cataloguing a history of discrimination , violence and injustice , stated that " the mass killings of indigenous peoples may have reduced over the past 500 years but they have never stopped " . |
| 8 | The indignation has a strained and petty air about it : Joe 's greatest crime does not seem to be his contribution to the deaths of 21 servicemen but his letting down his son , who can no longer regard him as a hero . |
| 9 | The answer on the calculator is four point seven O five double eight two three hours but we do not need that as that |
| 10 | Southern Princess went down around 0300 hours but we got away in the lifeboats . |
| 11 | ‘ I owe 500 bucks but I have n't paid yet , ’ said Joe . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been a nurse for ten years but I have never seen a bullet wound . |
| 13 | Well cos , for the sake of ten days there er er er erm Martin was gon na fix the problem , erm within ten days but we do n't wan na have to go back and reprint everything cos the unit statement 's perfectly valid . |
| 14 | Yes a hundred metres in ten seconds but you do n't give the speed like that . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 16 | U2 's Achtung Baby album won five trophies but they stayed home — preferring to celebrate in their favourite Dublin pub instead . |
| 17 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 18 | I was in hospital for five days but I do n't remember anything about that , either . |
| 19 | She said oh been saying he 's gon na build one for five years but he 's never got round to it . |
| 20 | It leaves manager Lawrie McMenemy with just 16 players but he has so far resisted calling anybody off the standby list . |
| 21 | A meal would only cost five francs but they noticed how the prices went up if their escorts were American , English or Australian . |
| 22 | Cecilia had passed Cambridge School several thousand times and been inside it several hundred times but she had never got over her feelings of loathing it . |
| 23 | There have been problems with one or two areas but it has n't been a a a general problem . |
| 24 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 25 | Friends of Eleanor , 52 , said : ‘ Eleanor had known about Sandy 's friendship for two years but she decided enough was enough . ’ |
| 26 | The judge , Mr Justice Humphrey Potts , said he would have put Casabona behind bars for two years but he had already served an equivalent term on remand . |
| 27 | Since the 1972 Act , there have been many additional authorities to Brussels through European Court judgments , individual directives and the implications and effects of the Single European Act , quite apart from the effect of the treaties which we have agreed in the past two days but which have yet to be ratified by Parliament . |
| 28 | You may have to wait for one or two things but you know like like copy sometimes but I did n't used to send them s erm er contracts in unless they had everything . |
| 29 | John has two PhDs but I do n't believe he has This sentence is pragmatically anomalous because it contradicts the standard Quality implicature that one believes what one asserts . |