Example sentences of "but [pron] [was/were] [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 | She thought it was empty at first , but someone was putting fresh flowers on the altar , and turned quickly when she heard the door close . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Um around the middle years of the twentieth century there was ah a good deal of well people were spotting signs which would nowadays be taken as evidence of child sex abuse but they were giving other explanations for them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Helen gladly confirmed that not only was Charlie a little star at our school but he was illuminating other schools too , especially girls ' schools . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But it was exasperated Tory backbenchers who sealed his fate . |