Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I was born to the sword . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I used to do women 's programmes but I was moved to the God slot . |
| 3 | But I was taken to the vault before a concert in the church . |
| 4 | ‘ People were literally running for their lives but I was rooted to the spot . ’ |
| 5 | She tried to stand up , but she was tied to the chair at her wrists and ankles . |
| 6 | USAF officials originally placed her at Edwards AFB but she was moved to the nearby March facility for restoration and display . |
| 7 | But we were driving to the ice-cap anyway and needed to reach the peaks by nightfall . |
| 8 | One Friday lunchtime we learned that there were no more classes that day but we were confined to the Grand till evening . |
| 9 | Dacourt also was provided with his own chamber but we were taken to the top of the palace . |
| 10 | The movies were ‘ for the millions ’ but they were given to the millions by showmen . |
| 11 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 12 | Nothing is known of his education , but he was returned to the Parliament of 1539 for an unknown constituency , possibly at a by-election during the shrievalty of his father , himself a knight of the shire for Surrey . |
| 13 | In east Germany and Prussia , for example , the peasant was not quite so poor as elsewhere , but he was disciplined to the estate by legal devices which seem to have been as powerful a stimulus to rural emigration as poverty . |
| 14 | Yeah , the hands , no structure , did you notice he hardly ever looked at the magistrate , although yeah his voice projection was still good because he 's an experienced advocate , but he was talking to the table nearly the whole time . |
| 15 | Urinary albumin excretion progression was not related to changes in urinary sodium and urea excretion , glycated haemoglobin concentration , or weight , but it was related to the sum of urinary sodium excretion during the whole treatment period ( r '=0.44 , p=0.05 for all patients ; r '=0.39 for enalapril group ; r '=0.36 for hydrochlorothiazide group ) . |
| 16 | But it was sent to the National Security Council and in the meantime Secretary of Defense Johnson , according to the internal ‘ History of the Indo-China Incident ’ prepared for and by the Joint Chiefs of Staff , had called upon the NSC to determine exactly how US security was threatened by the current situation in the Far East and to formulate tentative courses of action which were to be co-ordinated for the whole region and were to outline specific objectives to be attained . |
| 17 | ‘ did especially appoint John de Metingham ( then Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas ) and the rest of his fellow justices … that they , according to their discretions , should provide and ordain , from every county , certain attorneys and lawyers , of the best and most apt for their learning and skill , who might do service to his court and people ; and that those so chosen only and no other , should follow his court and transact the affairs therein ; the said King and his council then deeming the number of seven score to be sufficient for that employment ; but it was left to the discretion of the said justices , to add to that number , or diminish , as they should see fit : ’ |
| 18 | But it was confined to the specific issue of whether a duty of care existed — to establish liability , a plaintiff must also prove breach of duty , and loss caused by that breach . |