Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't wanted another argument , but perversely she was now filled with deep resentment at the way he was hijacking her right to tear him to pieces . |
| 2 | He was knocked unconscious for a brief period but luckily nothing was broken . |
| 3 | He 'd come out here to try to make trouble over her work , but luckily everything was going so well that he 'd find that difficult . |
| 4 | ‘ Very hard ; I was worried about a hairline fracture , but luckily it was just a bad lump . |
| 5 | At one stage it was thought that the old lady would be written off , but luckily it was not to be and the following year I was able to take her from Buckie with a new lease of life . |
| 6 | All that morning I was frightened that my sister would discover that I had stolen from her , but luckily she was so busy cleaning the house , and roasting the chickens for our Christmas lunch that she did not notice that I had been out , or that any food was missing . |
| 7 | It was days before we managed to get in touch with Sylvia through a third party but luckily she was still fine . |
| 8 | ‘ Bits of broken glass showered over me but luckily I was n't injured . ’ |
| 9 | Seeing trucks approaching , the latter made ready for battle , but luckily there was mutual recognition before any shooting started . |
| 10 | But luckily there was only a c only one car stopped at the top . |
| 11 | but it 's , but commercially it was of no importance |
| 12 | We even had a hot line set up between the reception at London Weekend and Number 10 , and a call did come through , but thankfully it was after we 'd done the show , when she was having a drink in the hospitality room . |
| 13 | But last night his record company admitted : ’ Michael was a bit concussed but thankfully he was not badly hurt . |
| 14 | But mostly it was the name of ‘ progress ’ that caused the decline of the working windmill ! |
| 15 | We still made a certain amount of buckets and bins and things like that which was their stock in trade , but mostly it was erm was erm bomb fins and mortar bombs aerial bombs erm er and er things like er fins for bombs like that . |
| 16 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 17 | I think we did speak about that , the offie but mostly it was just the little house , outside Mhm . |
| 18 | But mostly it was the Cooperative . |
| 19 | Sometimes they used it on him when he was waiting to be served by a barman , or even when he was just standing waiting to cross a busy street , but mostly it was when he was talking to somebody official . |
| 20 | The response of the secular rulers depended on a wide variety of factors , but mostly it was conditioned by political considerations . |
| 21 | And as long as you did n't choose something that had a very bad dye , in which case it would all run , but mostly it was very light , it was easy to wear , even easy to clean , so it was an immensely popular fabric . |
| 22 | The handsome youngster was a flirt and a rebel-rouser at school but mostly he was a clown who craved affection — anything to help him forget the loveless days when he watched his drunkard father beat up his mother . |
| 23 | But mostly he was at home in the old church you know . |
| 24 | But mostly she was confused . |
| 25 | But mostly she was with me . ’ |
| 26 | It was not in this case a call to work in a particular area of the community , but rather it was a call to intimacy . |
| 27 | The political and social context and the popular mood seemed to demand an upbeat cinema but this cinema was not to be a cinema of fantasy or make-believe but rather it was a cinema created in the image of its audiences . |
| 28 | Mercifully , there was no proposal to attempt landing an aircraft by the same means , but rather it was envisaged that rough landing strips could be constructed adjacent to the launcher . |
| 29 | The appellants argued that their actions were not prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state , but rather it was their belief that their actions would be beneficial to the state . |
| 30 | But , as Ivar Oxaal has pointed out , a full reading of ‘ The Black Jacobins ’ reveals quite clearly that ‘ this was not James 's thesis ’ but rather it was just one half of that writer 's theory as to the causes of abolition in the British colonies ’ . |