Example sentences of "but [pron] [was/were] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I only pay dutiful visits now , ’ Rose went on , ‘ but I was at one time very frequently here . |
| 2 | The German countess then began to speak , but I was at this point , for some reason I do not recollect , obliged to leave the drawing room for an extended period . |
| 3 | But I was in two minds about him for another reason : he was already too old for training purposes , and of course that was why I wanted a bird . |
| 4 | Investing all this hope in a girl I hardly knew was , in retrospect , highly dangerous , but I was in that sort of a mood . |
| 5 | I suppose it was an amusing sight for the crowd below , but I was in terrible fear of falling . |
| 6 | This drew protests from residents of the Awlad Amira oases , which were indeed more populous but which were within easier reach of the hospital in Zawiya . |
| 7 | On a date which he could not subsequently remember but which was before 3 October 1939 , he was tuning in his radio , when he heard a familiar voice . |
| 8 | Bert Head brought many fine footballers to the Palace from north of the border but none was of more value to the Palace than Tony . |
| 9 | Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck . |
| 10 | But she was on this chair so when I came back cos she , I sat over there . |
| 11 | Lou was n't at all happy there , but she was in good health and that was the only thing that Ken bothered about . |
| 12 | Marguerite was not exactly a motherly woman , but she was in some way comfortable . |
| 13 | I was the goodie and he was n't exactly the baddie , but we were against each other all the time . |
| 14 | The message I got was that the last few days it did n't matter a bugger what it cost but we were in desperate straights to get in stock . |
| 15 | ‘ But we were in some trees , and so — ’ He made a motion with one finger across his throat . |
| 16 | But there was in any case no doubt that the areas of the family , education , and public morality constituted part of the sacred sphere . |
| 17 | At this time most of them were minor landowners , but they were of gentle descent , and although John of Faircross , son and heir of the ironmaster , styled himself yeoman all his life , his descendants eventually moved up into the gentry . |
| 18 | During the bad weather we experienced a few disasters and events , but they were of little consequence . |
| 19 | But they were at one minute 's notice to move . |
| 20 | But they were on this bonus system you know , they were you know on the bonus but they were n't quarry men . |
| 21 | About seven of them , but they were in different places . |
| 22 | ‘ The police were using what seemed like heavy-duty rifles but they were in plain clothes and the cars were unmarked . ’ |
| 23 | He grew large and plump and round-cheeked , but he was without kittenish ways as if his sad experience had robbed him prematurely of his youth , yet when he sat on Lyn 's lap in the evenings he gave himself up to a drowsy and contented purring . |
| 24 | Of course Oswald Mosley , our own exponent of Fascism , went a bit far in that direction , but he was worth some support if he stuck to the Mile End Road and did n't provoke clashes in such cherished halls of entertainment as Olympia and the Albert Hall . |
| 25 | Perhaps the financial strain is reflected in Fitzjohn 's sale of Ringwood Manor ( Hampshire ) for 2,250 marks ; but he was on good terms with Clare , in and after 1267 appearing as a member of his entourage . |
| 26 | He escaped in his pyjamas , and the plaster of Paris on his leg was sopping wet where he had fallen in a ditch , but he was in good spirits . |
| 27 | Dyson scarcely had time to stride up and down the office that morning , lecturing Bob on the importance of television , but he was in great form all the same . |
| 28 | But he was in poor health when the latter was written , and both books reflect his increasing pessimism about international affairs ; as Edward Blishen says , ‘ the positive and determined John Dolittle has been replaced by an unhappy dreamer . ’ |
| 29 | But he was in any event fascinated by his childhood and adolescence , and by the time he died this juvenile field had been fruitfully tilled and probably exhausted . |
| 30 | Bobby sighed and turned to the chairman but he was in earnest conversation with a ponderous constable . |