Example sentences of "but [pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun] " 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 | But I was upset Romeo banished |
| 3 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 4 | But I was nine years in er digs . |
| 5 | ‘ But I was 8,000 miles away . ’ |
| 6 | Mother thought it was a liability , ie , it would have to be dry-cleaned , but I was twelve years old and had a Ph.D . |
| 7 | ‘ It sounds feeble , but I was afraid Grant might be so angry I would finally lose him . ’ |
| 8 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 9 | But she was all Terry 's Liz were going mad cos she 'd through to garage . |
| 10 | She had our land on a 10-year lease from the National Agrarian Institute — but she was six years behind with the rent . |
| 11 | Kelly would understand , of course , but she was many miles away , working on location , and Shae did n't even have a contact number . |
| 12 | She did not , however , think it any more ridiculous than any other memorial chapel , but she was glad Christopher had not seen it , and hoped Flora would not mention it when they came round . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | But she was surprised Gowers had renewed her partnership with Gill Clark , another former Sankey partner . |
| 15 | But she was very health and in a couple of days , we were both fine . |
| 16 | But she was determined Madame should not be aware of either . |
| 17 | But who were these crowds of grey haired , bearded , balding , plump middle-aged people ? |
| 18 | But who were these Light-Bearers ? |
| 19 | But who was that Johnny Logan . |
| 20 | And we worked on this contract for two month , to try it out for him but we were thirty pound a week less , and we had over two hundred slates a day more , on the on this contract . |
| 21 | It was horrible , but we were teenage fools and we wanted to sit at home and do big grown-up things . |
| 22 | It was note perfect , but everything was one string over ! ’ |
| 23 | No , no I , I do n't know how but there was two cars that was , that was er behind me and I managed to avoid them but I do n't know how . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But there was ordinary heat and there was microwave heat . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Some pink pills or something but there was all sorts you know hat they used to say put your feet in hot in water , mustard and er fall down the stairs or go on a bus , they used to tell you all sorts of things you know to , and er anyway that 's what happened to me . |
| 30 | 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 ! ’ |