Example sentences of "but [pron] was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 2 | I never went to the extremes with heroin , but I was addicted to valium for seven years erm and I 've been clean from valium for four months erm through a drug programme in Brenda House |
| 3 | But I was brought to trial again , and sent to Australia for life . ’ |
| 4 | I 've thought about it , ’ said Nikos , ‘ but I was keeping to surveillance until I was told otherwise . ’ |
| 5 | You have already second , but I was going to second it , and say how very pleased I am to have the opportunity to second it . |
| 6 | Where he was educated is not known but he was apprenticed to John Marshall , a surgeon from Kilsyth , who was in charge of Glasgow University 's Physick garden in 1704 ( a physick garden was a source of herbs and other plants used for medical purposes ) . |
| 7 | But he was used to people not liking him or his company and so took their attitude as expected . |
| 8 | ‘ But he was going to Australia , I thought . |
| 9 | Mul was evidently established as king in Kent but he was burnt to death there and Caedwalla responded with a second invasion in 687 ( ASC A , s.a. 687 ) and may then have ruled Kent directly for a time . |
| 10 | Egypt was suspended in March 1979 ( and the League headquarters transferred form Cairo to Tunis ) following its 1979 peace accord with Israel , but it was readmitted to membership in May 1989 [ see p. 36669 ] . |
| 11 | Previously the limit was £20 , but it was raised to £250 by the Insolvency Act 1976 , now replaced by the consolidating Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 12 | Mark Pretty removed the offending hold , but it was left to Robin Barker to make the first free ascent of the Free Monster E6+ 6c ( F7c+ ) . |
| 13 | But it was left to Oxford Hawks in the gold shirts and Gloucester City in the red to battle it out for the minor places in a Central South derby . |
| 14 | Just Like A Man , As Soon As The Tide Comes and Surface Of The Moon all received favourable receptions from the polite audience but it was left to Spit In The Rain , Stone Cold Sober and the band 's ode to suburbia Nothing Ever Happens , to set Middlesbrough Town Hall alight . |
| 15 | The Romans used the dome construction to a limited extent , but it was left to Byzantium to develop this type of covering to its logical conclusion . |
| 16 | But it was left to Bruce Coward of the Harbour Bookshop in Dartmouth to explain the origins of the bargain bookshop phenomenon ( beyond the obvious attraction that cheaper items , including books , will have in times of recession ) . |
| 17 | But it was left to Watson to sum it all up . |
| 18 | Austen Chamberlain stiffly told them that the meeting was unprecedented and irregular , but it was left to Birkenhead to denounce them all for impertinence , stupidity and disloyalty . |
| 19 | The moormen exchanged an uneasy glance , but it was left to Denning to state the purpose of their visit . |
| 20 | There was a temple here from the seventh century , but it was dedicated to Zeus 's consort Hera , though in the early sixth-century reconstruction which endured throughout antiquity his primitive image , helmeted , stood beside hers enthroned ( above , p. 22 ) . |
| 21 | But it was sold to Tranwood Consortium late last year for just £1.6 million , just before going into receivership . |
| 22 | The students had no room in which to wait between lectures , but it was suggested to MRCVS that students who lodged near enough might go home if they wanted to , or more usefully spend their non-lecture time in the dissecting room or in the stables , although the Bell & Crown inn , with a good fire , was close at hand . |