Example sentences of "but [pers pn] was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rational judgement might have told him that the nation 's plight was hopeless , but his was the vision of an avenging prophet . |
| 2 | Other cars were parked on the lines — it was difficult to find a space ! — but I was the driver he chose . |
| 3 | I do n't suppose you will remember me , but I was the winner of second prize in last year 's Wimpey News Photo Competition — a Spa Day at Ragdale Hall Health Hydro . |
| 4 | But I was the trouble |
| 5 | It sounds weak , I know , but I was the dustbin of guilt . |
| 6 | But I was the Annie character — you know — if you were a good girl you 'd be rewarded , and it is n't nice to make a fuss . ’ |
| 7 | I myself thought that the matter was one on which no degrees of murder could be properly invented and was very loath to move the clause , but I was the Attorney-General at the time and it was my duty as Chief Law Officer to carry out the decision of the Cabinet . |
| 8 | But theirs was the initiative ; and it was usually successful . |
| 9 | She was not the kind of person who was fun , but she was the kind of person that people trusted , and that was a fair trade to her . |
| 10 | He was calling Peter 's bluff — but she was the pawn . |
| 11 | They were friendly and nice , but she was the curate 's wife and somehow , therefore , in a separate category of human being . |
| 12 | I became a father late in life , and I know it 's a cliché , but she was the apple of my eye . |
| 13 | Glasgow gangster Frank Murphy changed his name to Frank Earn and went on to win the Scottish Welterweight Boxing Championship , but he was the exception . |
| 14 | It was a man Robertson , I think was his name , but he was the mole catcher . |
| 15 | He finished up at at at but he was the under-manager at . |
| 16 | I found this astonishing bit of information difficult to swallow — but he was the expert ; 40,000 fine upstanding saplings were sprouting on his nature reserve and many of these , he declared , had grown from stout twigs cut by past billhook-swinging volunteers . |
| 17 | He could tell we would n't wish , but he was the night clerk . |
| 18 | No you would n't know but he was the caretaker at father 's school , wonderful man , absolutely , he 's got god knows what he has n't got wrong with him , but he has sort of |
| 19 | He was naked and there was no longer a burn upon his face , but he was the brother she remembered . |
| 20 | But he was the adult involved , after all , he thought , eating a piece of chocolate hard on a particular tooth to get rid of some bitter aspirin lodged in a broken stopping . |
| 21 | In the case of legacy per damnationem , the legatee was not of course owner , but he was the beneficiary of a civil-law obligation imposed on the heir by the testator : the words used for such a legacy , damnas esto dare , generated a liability at civil law for the heir to make over the property to the legatee . |
| 22 | Her father was kindness itself , but he was the sort of man who gave little credit to anyone who had fallen from grace . |
| 23 | However , his candidature in 1911 had been aided by three factors : he was a Conservative rather than a Liberal Unionist , but he was the sort of Conservative who would be acceptable to Liberal Unionists as well ; he was a diehard in opinion , but he had remained loyal to Balfour 's policy throughout the recent twists and turns ; and he had staked a claim by his abandonment of his safe London seat to fight North-West Manchester in December 1910 ( at no real risk , for an alternative safe seat was always available to him if and when he lost ) . |
| 24 | It is true that William Cobbett , born in 1766 , was to write , " I do not remember the time when I did not earn my living " , but he was the son of a moderately successful small farmer in a district where hop growing enabled a decent living from small acreages for a family with three sons to help work it . |
| 25 | But he was the makeweight . |
| 26 | The other important contribution that the association made was to establish a bi-annual show , a show which became the talk of the art scene in the city to such an extent that the members could look forward to their work being seen , in the prestigious rooms of the Academy of Arts , written about and even bought by the cultural who included the Kaiser , ( his taste was somewhat shaky , but he was the Kaiser ) . |
| 27 | Probably there were never more than eight or ten newcomers at Canterbury among a native community of perhaps thirty or forty Englishmen ; but it was the privilege of the newcomers to command , and of the native monks to exercise their monastic vocation of obedience . |
| 28 | But it was the entente that was at an end . |
| 29 | Probably many urban employers in the new forms of manufacture would have liked more of their workers to have become self-disciplined Methodists , but it was the employers of the village-dwelling miners who could already appreciate the benefits by the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | The architects of Pakistan 's victorious tour were undoubtedly their formidable pacemen , Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis , but it was the batsmen who stole the limelight at the start . |