Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it lasted for a good seven or eight years after the war was finished . |
| 2 | She concedes , ‘ We are aware that a market for these Japanese artists does not yet exist , but it seemed like a good moment . |
| 3 | Convertibility eventually came in 1958 ; but it came with a fixed exchange rate . |
| 4 | And the only bit of damp I 've got is in one corner of the house but it came from a blocked erm pipe . |
| 5 | But it came from a reliable source . |
| 6 | The numbers against it were still high ( 250 ) , but it passed with a respectable majority and was ready for promulgation . |
| 7 | This bias was particularly strong during our Pre-Campaign Wave in March when Prime Minister Thatcher visited Moscow but it continued at a reduced level throughout the final campaign . |
| 8 | This was popular for warships but it made for a heavy hull . |
| 9 | This was neither the basic approach of Raistrick to fungal metabolism , nor quite the same concept as that of antibiosis , but it led to a similar outcome , the possible discovery of a microbial agent which could destroy the microbes that caused disease . |
| 10 | It sounded utterly preposterous but it led to a longer silence . |
| 11 | As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department . |
| 12 | ‘ There is no evidence that it was a planned meeting , but it turned into a joint enterprise , ’ Mr. Booker said . |
| 13 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 14 | Not that it did n't work the way we did it , but it worked in a different way . ’ |