Example sentences of "but [pers pn] were [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I thought they all be brilliant , but they were utter shite , so I thought to myself : ‘ There 's a great talent here just waiting to be discovered ! ’ ’ |
| 3 | But they were good metal roads that took all the traffic . |
| 4 | They had some nice thick ones in Peacocks but they were seventeen pound well sixteen ninety five |
| 5 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |
| 6 | But they were busy talking about religion . |
| 7 | They were better informed than he 'd imagined , but they were some way from guessing the truth . |
| 8 | Just inside the hallway , behind the speaker grille and the numbered bell-pushes , there was a shelf with a few pieces of mail ; a couple of them were for Carson but they were junk mail , expensive waste paper from a motoring organisation . |
| 9 | key were in lock , but it were locked door |