Example sentences of "but i [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was only a child , so I just stood and watched him out of sight and turned reluctantly to deliver his message . |
| 2 | but I was only a gingerbread woman |
| 3 | And we were called into this long room at the erm it was at House at and er there was all these well I considered them to be old men , they could n't have been so old you see but I was only a boy . |
| 4 | But I was never a Communist . |
| 5 | To some it will seem perverse to choose to inhabit that village-world of rural prejudice but I was never a town-child and the Scottish cities in particular hold no charms for me . |
| 6 | But I was really a ghost who came to call . |