Example sentences of "[num] [noun] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The count stayed with the holiday party for 12 days but said he left when his relationship with Mellor became strained . |
| 2 | Remember that you can always select a word by double clicking and a paragraph by clicking three times but did you know that you can extend these further ? |
| 3 | Erm I would like to formally second Mr because I followed a situation where the previous minister had baptised anyone and when I arrived I discussed with the session what our policy on baptism was and we concurred that we should follow the nineteen sixty three law but apply it under grace and with the spirit of God in mind and we had some very difficult situations when people said to me no I have no time for God in my life but I want you to baptise my baby . |
| 4 | and things , you think is it worth it because the car would be sat out here , if , if say , say I transferred and still did three days but did it when you work |
| 5 | What people tend to do is they answer a question that they 've revised well and they can easily answer and they spend an hour and a half on it and then they fi they do , I mean you know you see them answering they write you pages and pages and pages and it 's a perfect answer and they get maybe ninety percent but had they spent about half as much time they 'd have got seventy percent anyway because they knew most of the important bits . |
| 6 | Culyer and Brazier ( 1988 ) also discuss the Type II model but classify it not as ‘ internal market ’ but as either ‘ retrospective full cost reimbursement ’ or as ‘ prospective reimbursement ’ . |
| 7 | Gradually take all the weight off one foot but leave it on the board as a back-up . |
| 8 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 9 | He was doing it again , saying one thing but making it sound like quite another . |
| 10 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 11 | He was a taxi driver in Newton Aycliffe for two years but gave it up as it was ‘ soul-destroying ’ . |
| 12 | The International Tennis Federation yesterday reaffirmed its commitment to the new £4 million event but said it was still discussing objections with the ATP . |
| 13 | I was n't at the official opening on 14 June but discovered it two days later . |
| 14 | They feed their babies only once every 48 hours but cram them so full of milk that , after feeding , it accounts for three-fifths of the infant 's body weight . |
| 15 | The stoma care nurse arranged that she would visit Mr Reynolds when he had been home 48 hours but gave him her telephone number in case he needed help before then . |