Example sentences of "but it [vb past] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meadowland or mead land was usually low-lying and damp for much of the year , but it produced an abundance of grass which was cut for hay . |
| 2 | He could n't have been unconscious for long , looking back , but it seemed an eternity at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ It was all over in 45 minutes but it seemed an eternity , ’ said Colin . |
| 4 | I suppose they 'd all gone in half a minute but it seemed an eternity of fascination and fear to a cringing youth . |
| 5 | We were playing a silly game , which had not a tragic outcome — it had , thanks to the mercy of providence , a fortunate outcome — but it had an outcome which is not one which ah statecraft should either aim at or be proud of having achieved . |
| 6 | Its practical effect was not very great ; but it began an attack on what radicals later came to call the ‘ old corruption ’ , the network of sinecures and jobbery which still played a large role in British political life . |
| 7 | Steve Pate said of his round with Faldo in the Open at Muirfield : ‘ It was like playing on my own — but it took an hour longer . ’ |
| 8 | Zeng was deeply affected by being exposed to a wider range of photographic influences and styles during these years , but it took an exhibition of Cartier-Bresson 's work in Peking in 1987 to finally convince him that photographs could actually carry meaning and profundities just as a painting or a piece of music can . |
| 9 | Maria laughed , a lovely liquid sound , but it required an effort of will to lift her hand and place it in his outstretched one , and resentment surged as his fingers closed round it briefly and were removed . |
| 10 | It was crude and probably impracticable , but it embodied an idea that has now come into its own in the age of the silicon chip . |
| 11 | Tim Rodber had a much better game that at Murrayfield and won his share of the ball at the tail of the line-outs , but it remained an area where Ireland did hold their own through the excellent play of Neil Francis and Brian Robinson . |