Example sentences of "but [pron] was [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 2 | ‘ It sounds feeble , but I was afraid Grant might be so angry I would finally lose him . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm staying with a friend and it 's even more cramped than your sister 's flat , ’ he said politely , and Claudia repressed a smile ; Denzil 's flat had plenty of room , but she was glad Roman did n't want to share it with Dana . |
| 4 | But she was very health and in a couple of days , we were both fine . |
| 5 | But she was determined Madame should not be aware of either . |
| 6 | It was note perfect , but everything was one string over ! ’ |
| 7 | But there was increased speculation on the Conservative Party conference fringe in Blackpool that an urgent decision on full membership of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) could get the Government off the economic and political hook of high interest rates , a falling pound , and massive Bank of England intervention in the markets . |
| 8 | Some of these marine stations were little more than dissecting rooms by the sea , but there was increased pressure from governments for scientists to study practical problems such as the effects of over-fishing . |
| 9 | It would be too much , given his limitations , to talk of Nikita the Great , but there was uncommon ability in him for which the world could eventually breathe more easily . |
| 10 | But there was ordinary heat and there was microwave heat . |
| 11 | He had taken off his paint-stiffened apron but there was blue paint in his hair and his hands were blue , like those of the Jumblies who went to sea in a sieve . |
| 12 | Out on the pathway leading to the gate he took her arm , saying , ‘ She gets dafter as she gets older , ’ but there was such warmth in his tone that his words could have been translated as , ‘ Is n't she marvellous ! ’ |
| 13 | But there was such sincerity and seriousness in his tone , he seemed so absolutely honest , just , and human , that nobody doubted his word . |
| 14 | Ours is not a kissing family — that is , what one might call social kissing ; but there was one person I always kissed , my husband 's Aunt Nesta . |
| 15 | I did n't want to become embroiled in yet another discussion of office politics and personalities , but there was one question I wanted to ask , if I could prevent the words slurring round my mouth . |
| 16 | Helen gave a talk about her work , but there was one subject about life in a space capsule which everyone seemed curious about , and which Helen duly explained : |
| 17 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 18 | But there was one kind of book he had a particular passion for ; Encyclopaedias . |
| 19 | This was his first major starring role in the West End and he could be pleased with the rave notices , but there was one tinge of disappointment . |
| 20 | ‘ I was able to reassure most of them , but there was one lady who we could just not convince and she cancelled a group booking for 50 . ’ |
| 21 | English bacteriologists and microbiologists have little reason to claim that they were more perceptive than their American contemporaries , but there was one exception . |
| 22 | But there was one exception , the Metropolitan Railway . |
| 23 | But there was one man to talk to in Israel who knew more than anyone else about the land of Palestine . |
| 24 | But there was one man m in er in you see them little red huts that 's on ? |
| 25 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |
| 26 | But there was one other very significant implication of the repatriation policy which Sir James Grigg , as Secretary of State for War with responsibility for the Army , had in mind from an early stage of the discussions . |
| 27 | But there was one isotope released in the accident that is highly mobile , that does have a high take-up by the human body , has a half-life of 140 days , and — though this was only revealed this week by the NRPB after New Scientist 's inquiries — was released in significant quantities . |
| 28 | But there was one loss that could never again be supplied to him : he had lost the sight of his damaged eye . |
| 29 | Their married life was reasonably happy but there was one point which was increasingly a bone of contention . |
| 30 | But there was one place in particular where the smoke column could often be seen . |