Example sentences of "but [pron] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds ' disallowed first half goal , just after the canaries ' one , looked good to me but I was at the other end of the pitch peering through the floodlit rainstorm . |
| 2 | I discovered a leak of brake fluid — just a small problem but I was in the fast lane so it was a bit worrying . ’ |
| 3 | I discovered a leak of brake fluid — just a small problem but I was in the fast lane so it was a bit worrying . ’ |
| 4 | But I was in the most of the islands you know . |
| 5 | ‘ I know you specialled that girl in Hope , Jo , and right through , but she was in the main ward , was n't she ? ’ |
| 6 | But she was inside the wonderful garden , in a world of her own . |
| 7 | But one was on the Daily Mail and the other was on the er Express . |
| 8 | The occupation forces in the territory of defeated enemies might be seen as temporary inconveniences , but there was at the same time a natural tendency to acquire overseas bases from which to extend the reach of America 's armed forces . |
| 9 | Seve 's drive was 50 yards from the front of the green and about 40 yards from the middle of the Open course fairway , but he was on the right side — do n't forget all his careful planning on studying the rough beforehand — which means he 's now coming back into the wind . |
| 10 | Aye but he was behind the this cos they 're all in the in the same boat you know , they 're all families , family affair is n't it . |
| 11 | Christ , Arthur was no oil-painting , but he was like the Winged Victory compared with him ! ’ |
| 12 | He could have been anyone but he was in the right place : on his own bed in his own house in Mouncy Street , so it had to be him . |
| 13 | ‘ Her husband 's a solicitor , ’ I said , which was n't strictly true but he was in the legal profession , and they 're all as thick as thieves as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 14 | It went without saying that he did n't want to be seen , but it was worth the extra discomfort of hanging around for the extra information that he might pick up . |
| 15 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 16 | But it was during the next year that observers noticed that King Charles himself had become so fond of Berkeley that he was now one of the principal royal favourites , and perhaps the greatest . |
| 17 | Nobody comforted her , for weeping was not necessary , but it was on the other hand permissible , and when she got home the aunts and uncles were kind to her and offered her cups of tea . |
| 18 | He tried to remove a smudge from the windscreen with the tip of his finger , but it was on the other side of the glass . |
| 19 | Or rather , I had an idea , but it was of the vaguest . |
| 20 | But it was as the great leader in efforts to save the environment and the natural treasures of the world that he will be longest remembered . |
| 21 | The shuttle was n't much like a London bus in shape , but it was about the same size . |
| 22 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
| 23 | We were both sad , but it was for the best . |
| 24 | ‘ But it was for the best that it did n't survive , ’ Cynthia said quickly . |
| 25 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 26 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 27 | She was home but , like him , an exile : together they made up a little principality but it was inside the great metropolis . |
| 28 | Not only was a large proportion of Communist Party membership unemployed but it was in the shattered heavy industrial areas that there seemed some possibility of gaining support in the " revolutionary " phase through which the Party was passing . |
| 29 | The woman-centred perspective had some impact at the beginning of the second wave of western feminism , but it was in the 1970s that it became most powerful , and most in conflict with egalitarian approaches . |
| 30 | But it was in the market-garden economies of the coast , stimulated by the demands of Barcelona , that the transformation was most intense . |