Example sentences of "but [was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months . |
| 2 | Sarah-Jane was rushed to Alder Hey Hospital for emergency treatment but was back at home today . |
| 3 | She had spent Christmas with her sister 's family and her own two children in Toowoomba , but was back on deck today as if the festive season did n't exist , and this waiting for Faye 's baby was taking its toll on her as well as on everyone else . |
| 4 | This loco failed on Easter Monday morning and was substituted by the diesel , but was back on duty for the afternoon run . |
| 5 | Gary , above , sang his uncle 's favourite hymn at his funeral but was back on stage 24 hours later . |
| 6 | He seems to have returned briefly to Massachusetts , perhaps in connection with his property there , but was back in England by 1643 , in the service of the younger Sir Henry Vane [ q.v. ] , who as governor of the Bay colony at a precociously early age had been something of a fellow-traveller with the alleged heretics . |