Example sentences of "but it [was/were] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which , every , every thing went sideways , but it was such fun |
| 2 | She struggled furiously , but it was little use , and at the top of the steps he set her on her feet . |
| 3 | I strained to hear if it was a record but it was that tune , broken in his usual stumbling places . |
| 4 | He was confronted , briefly , by an Arsenal supporter in the car park an hour after the match and Jensen said : ‘ Yes , Durie was kicking me — but it was that kind of game . ’ |
| 5 | But it was that voice that really nailed it ; that languid , partly-formed Brooklyn drawl moving somewhere in the area of the tune . |
| 6 | Now I can see that I was wrong to assume that mere dedication to a craft ineluctably results in fine work , but it was that conviction which drove me to put Jean-Claude and his work on the map . |
| 7 | days you see , like I was out Monday I was busy all day Monday and then I Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday here yet I was busy , but it was all brain work |
| 8 | And I would n't I I heard of a s very sleazy woman er near where I used to live , er I never met her , but it was all hearsay how many abortions she did . |
| 9 | But it was all part of my compulsion to lose weight . |
| 10 | It seems odd that a man with so much of a reputation for sexual encounters should cringe from public contact , but it was all part of his reserve . |
| 11 | He could n't do the job , he knew it and his father-in-law knew it , but it was all part of the grand master plan : How To Keep Your Daughter At Home . |
| 12 | He tells us in his autobiography that this decision produced a breakdown in his wife 's health , but it was all part of his efforts to become a pure Buddhist leader and hence bring benefit to burma . |
| 13 | ‘ We had a bad result at Stoke City last Friday night , but it was all part of a learning experience for young players . |
| 14 | But it was all part of the job . |
| 15 | you know , but it was all sort of like that . |
| 16 | Perhaps that type of patronage was of small value in comparison with the need to provide employment for friends , but it was all grist to the mill of a politician intent on keeping his interest solidly united , and it was certainly not scorned by those with bursaries in their gift . |
| 17 | But it was another moment , another gift from life , to put with the others . |
| 18 | But it was another substitute , Kenny Brown , who dealt the final blow for the hammers , with his very first touch of the match . |
| 19 | Peel was undoubtedly their biggest fan but it was another Radio One DJ , Andy Kershaw , who gave them their first session as 1985 drew to a close . |
| 20 | The next time I went to see her she offered me another two Chagalls one was the goat and bride from his Parisian period , and the other I can no longer recall , but it was another gouache . |
| 21 | I mean he liked his job in here right enough but it was more money and better conditions in the glaziers so |
| 22 | Well , it was n't an oak-beamed house in the hills , but it was some way out of the city . |
| 23 | Literally translated , Vogelsang means ‘ bird song ’ , but it was some time before the dawn chorus when the Squadron Sergeant Major bawled out the orders for reveille . |
| 24 | Tisane , like tilleul , was in Frederica 's vocabulary , the word , not the thing , but it was some time yet before she would understand their connection with Proust , who had entered her consciousness largely through a striking nightmare , dreamed the night before her Oxford entrance examination , which she recalled , as M. Grimaud talked and the scented trees brushed past . |
| 25 | He heard the tin bracelets jangling on her wrists and from time to time she bent her head close over her fists as though blowing on reluctant embers ; but it was some time before he realized that he , too , was naked , and that the hands of the Moi girl were stroking and chafing his own body . |
| 26 | Her face seemed familiar , but it was some time before he realized that she was the curly-haired bit who had given him the slip some months back . |
| 27 | In view of the extent of domestic disquiet in the last year of the Crimean War Alexander had every reason to adopt a policy of radical reform , but it was some time before he did so . |
| 28 | THE WAILERS ' ‘ Catch A Fire ’ was out by then , sure , but it was this soundtrack ( to a fantastic star-shoots-his-way-out-of-the-ghetto film starring Jimmy Cliff ) which finally and unimpeachably established the fact that skinhead ska really had metamorphosed into rude boy reggae and that the island of Jamaica was about to embark on a decade of musical creativity unmatched anywhere before or since . |
| 29 | But it was this battle , won at huge cost by both Tyne Tees and Yorkshire , which finally propelled the companies into each others arms . |
| 30 | This form of socialism , based upon the accountability of the state to society rather than vice versa , would take a long time to develop , but it was this form of socialism that supporters of perestroika hoped the Party Conference would develop further — as indeed it did . |