Example sentences of "but [pers pn] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know it then but I was receiving subliminal training for later business life . |
| 2 | ‘ Not in the conventional sense , but I was given moral codes of conduct to follow . ’ |
| 3 | Apparently not only had I collapsed on stage last night , but I was having intravenous chemotherapy between shows , sobbing and grimacing in agony in my dressing room . |
| 4 | , but I was saying any way I like |
| 5 | I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And , but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James , In that case , I argued , why make us read the Bible ? |
| 6 | ‘ But I was working all night — ’ she began . |
| 7 | But I was to discover another facet of Soviet hospital life when , after the last meal of the day at six o'clock , I became aware of a plaintive female voice outside my window . |
| 8 | He looked down at her steadily and Maggie tried to stay cool , but she was losing this battle and she knew it . |
| 9 | Gertrude Jekyll had not been available to design the garden at The Tamarisks when Lutyens had been drawing up plans for the house , but she was shown these plans and her advice was sought . |
| 10 | Nobody talked to her in particular , but she was sitting opposite Miles and , from time to time , a smile flew roughly in her direction , for which she was grateful . |
| 11 | He moved around France quite a lot , and not only was he a soldier , but he was writing comic operas and operas , and musicals and so on , and some of his work was pro produced and performed at the Opera Comic , in in France . |
| 12 | Graham Townsend was alone in his shop at three fifteen this afternoon … details of what happened are sketchy … but he was stabbed several times in the chest by one of three youths who were trying to steal jewellery … they ran off … and Mr Townsend called an ambulance … a neighbour came to his aid . |
| 13 | He had shouted that he was a reporter but he was struck several blows on the head and shoved into the police tender . |
| 14 | But he was saved 12 hours later by fell rescuers who started a search after they found the man 's abandoned car . |
| 15 | But he was taken last month to Bill Wightman 's gallops on the lovely downland on which the great Halloween was trained . |
| 16 | Helen gladly confirmed that not only was Charlie a little star at our school but he was illuminating other schools too , especially girls ' schools . |
| 17 | He was aware of her , but he was envisaging greater battles still . |
| 18 | The board has also been having ongoing talks with potential investors , but it was understood last night that the present worrying situation remained unchanged . |
| 19 | The concept of the church as heaven on earth was as old as Byzantium , but it was given new impetus in these confections of the Holy Roman Empire 's last century . |
| 20 | A number of options were considered but it was decided that continuity and experience were important and the services provided by Westminster Strategy were highly regarded and ought to continue . |
| 21 | It sounds passé now , but it was breaking new ground for all of us ; putting into words the taboos in our lives — sex , sexuality , relating to men — and the bonus , our new found enjoyment of each other 's company without men . |
| 22 | But it was exasperated Tory backbenchers who sealed his fate . |
| 23 | The playground at Brockweir school has been deserted for over a year , once a 100 children were educated at this small village school , but it was closed last year because of declining numbers . |