Example sentences of "but [adv] [art] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | But thankfully the interior was bare . |
| 2 | But unofficially the suggestion was authoritatively pooh-poohed . |
| 3 | Eventually he said , ‘ OK , we 'll call Number 10 tomorrow … . ’ but mercifully the idea was abandoned and we were spared . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a bloody business but eventually a breach was forced in the defences and Bartholomew led us through . ’ |
| 5 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 6 | Ashby was keen because of the sparking relationship that existed between Nicholson and Michelle — but eventually the script was put on the back burner . |
| 7 | I watched the executioner light the faggots but apparently the kindling was too green and the fire did n't catch . |
| 8 | He had said she was beautiful and called her Felipe 's woman , but obviously the count was not about to enlighten her on that particular score , and as she was not revealing her knowledge of his language she had to let it go . |
| 9 | A new battery was fitted and Brundle continued , but only the driver was charging . |
| 10 | He planned a very large church but only the baptistry was ever completed ( in 1856 ) . |
| 11 | Both these styles and slip-on loafers were made by Faith Royals but only the brogue was popularly called ‘ Royals ’ . |
| 12 | At first the hotel was encumbered with the inevitable stone bankers but soon the ground was laid out with a delightful garden ‘ where a respectable band of musicians , formed in this place , meet every Tuesday and Friday evening ’ . |
| 13 | In Britain the anti-Darwinians were unable to prevent the takeover of the scientific community by Huxley and the liberal Darwinians , but elsewhere the opposition was better organized . |
| 14 | But already the noise was diminishing , the violence of the anger subsiding as rapidly as it had built up , and he looked back at the audience to see people taking their places again , Gerrard and the earphoned men in shirtsleeves moving quickly and purposefully among them , urging them into seats . |
| 15 | But already the crow was making off , flying low with slow , heavy wing-beats . |
| 16 | His physical substance had been a tonic , but already the hunger was coming back . |
| 17 | The grandiloquent , dramatizing style of the TV orator developed later , but already the appeal was messianic , the choices stark . |
| 18 | Georgina 's door was closed , but nevertheless the sound was audible throughout the office . |
| 19 | But nevertheless the intervention was there . |
| 20 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 21 | I should have told you myself , but somehow the opportunity was never there . ’ |
| 22 | She had always intended to tell him the truth , but somehow the time was never right … |
| 23 | The term ‘ merchant adventurer ’ was originally applied to any merchant trading in cloth overseas ; there were groups of them from various towns including Newcastle and York , and others were drawn from several of the London companies , but gradually the term was limited to a group within the Mercers . |
| 24 | But gradually the pattern was resolved . |
| 25 | The American boy apologized haltingly in French as he knelt to return the shivering pet to her , but once the animal was safely in her arms again she turned and fled shyly back to her father 's side without speaking . |
| 26 | When Paul called me back to ask whether he was serious about this , I replied , yes , although I must admit I did n't hear strings and flutes on ‘ Space Oddity ’ at the beginning but once the track was done , it was obvious that it was going to work really well . |
| 27 | Up to about 1920 this appeared to be the case , but thereafter the link was more tenuous . |
| 28 | I do not know if the vicar was believed or not , but thereafter the bridge was known as Devil 's Bridge . |
| 29 | In 1987 , Denmark proposed even more favourable terms to the UK , but still no agreement was reached . |
| 30 | So Susan was gone , and Vicky was gone , but still the stage was not emptied . |