Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] but [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were brown but in the winter they turn white . |
| 2 | To begin with we were nervous but by the end we were making up silly situations and if we made mistakes everyone laughed . ’ |
| 3 | Well I I was eleven but by the time but I had a birthday , you see , er in the summer and er er well August actually and so when I started at Stowmarket I was twelve , you see , and er and er I was at Stowmarket School and scholarship for four years and er well I do n't know whether I really liked school , did you ? |
| 4 | He was good-looking but of the rough , hirsute kind . |
| 5 | The tide was high but on the turn , lapping sluggishly against the rocks at the river 's edge . |
| 6 | It was empty but for the Doctor , looking very smug , and the TARDIS . |
| 7 | Brian Stewart , chief executive of Scottish and Newcastle , said the Budget was wide-ranging but in the context of his own industry , the Chancellor 's decision to raise excise duty on beer flew in the face of commercial reality . |
| 8 | From its harsh too-shiny texture there was no doubt it was synthetic but from a distance it looked like a black cat 's pelt . |
| 9 | His hair was grey but with a trace of red hair remaining in his bushy eyebrows . |
| 10 | Carol 's kitchen was silent but for the hum of the refrigerator . |
| 11 | First he was angry , then he was surprised but in the end he became very excited . |