Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own . |
| 2 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 3 | His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ . |
| 4 | He is retired now , but he had been sent all her possessions some time after the war from the house in avenue Hoche . |
| 5 | But he had been woken half an hour earlier . |
| 6 | The same old crowd , but he 'd been seeing much less of them . |
| 7 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |