Example sentences of "[num] [noun] but he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bateman was unable to put his name on the League scorers ' list in spite of 32 appearances but he did get an important goal for Palace that season . |
| 2 | It took him 100 hours but he achieved a ratio of about 1000:1 . |
| 3 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 4 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 5 | They agreed to pay him thirty three thousand pounds but he rejected the offer . |
| 6 | He may only be 5 ft 4 ins but he is a giant among small players . ’ |
| 7 | Not only will he be one of the few Democrats to win the presidency in the past 50 years but he will have humiliated an incumbent President in the process . |
| 8 | He had left his hometown of Kiel in northern Germany and covered the distance to Wissembourg on the Franco-German border in the space of ten days but he was still uncertain where he was ultimately headed . |
| 9 | He was with Leeds for only 3 and 1/3 seasons but he must be fairly high in the list of all-time scorers . |
| 10 | alright he 's met you for five minutes but he 's come here I said this gang of children , I said the poor bugger 's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it 's just for Sally 's three I said he 's gon na be , he 's not gon na be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was |
| 11 | And this is important because a man might look very well from one side but he might look like a cheese from another , and that would be a distraction . |
| 12 | Deceased 's father , with Thomas Hawkswell [ sic ] set out as a search party , and eventually traced the ‘ footings ’ of the missing man … to the old Groove house , and found the lifeless body of young Brown lying just outside the dilapidated building , with his faithful dog watching over the remains of its departed master … the deceased had been married about nine months but he , however , resided with his father at Blackton , while his wife lived with her mother at Bowes , pending their securing a farm and home to themselves , a consummation well within sight at the time of this untoward happening — this mysterious interposition , which surely intimates eternity to man … ‘ |
| 13 | The wretched animal could only carry away one chicken but he bit the heads off all the others in a sheer lust of killing . ’ |
| 14 | He had worked the same hours , on the same farm for nine years but he was paid as a casual labourer , and so had no right to a pension , to notice pay — not even to the right of appeal . |
| 15 | Thérèse whispered : Rose Taillé only has one eye but he 's got two . |
| 16 | She said oh been saying he 's gon na build one for five years but he 's never got round to it . |
| 17 | By the light of torches I could see one policeman but he could not see me , and my pleas for help were not heeded . |
| 18 | Jordi had been in Salamanca only one day but he had found out where I was living . |
| 19 | he tries to do it with one finger but he 's just not quite strong enough |
| 20 | Before his £1.3m move from Notts County last season , Johnson was scoring at a rate of two goals every five matches but he claimed : ‘ It 's early days for me . |
| 21 | It leaves manager Lawrie McMenemy with just 16 players but he has so far resisted calling anybody off the standby list . |
| 22 | He never closes one door but he opens another . ’ |
| 23 | He was in Bass 's Straits on 16 April but he managed to be in Hobart for the birth of his son on 6 May . |
| 24 | Jimmy has a box of 0 cricket balls , each weighing 1 kg but he found that he had to take two out of the box to make it balance with a 40kg , weight , The equation which describes this balance would be : unc If Jimmy put back the two cricket balls into the box what would happen to the balance ? |
| 25 | The Rev. Joseph Edelson , a controversial Anglo-Catholic who gave his name to the house , was vicar of Gainford for 40 years but he also had other interests . |
| 26 | I offered the Prior my twenty pounds but he would n't take it . |
| 27 | Two months but he had discretion |
| 28 | Not only did he prove himself the master of a number of accredited and experienced Division Two full-backs but he was in his usual place of outside-right in Palace 's best-ever Cup victory when we walloped Everton 6–0 at Goodison on 7 January 1922 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A good three-quarters of Mr Singleton 's production falls into the top two grades but he believes he can improve on that . |