Example sentences of "but he [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was the most persuasive speaker in the house , for he had a cause which he believed in morally . |
| 2 | John Nott was not the Foreign Secretary , and therefore not responsible for reading the international scene , but he was the next best thing . |
| 3 | But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But he was the most pleasant animal to work with . |
| 7 | But he was the same as ever — just went in and did it in one take . |
| 8 | But he was the first step on the path to those persons and he had to get this right ! |
| 9 | He had a face on him like a battered pluck ; he was gangly , you know ’ — she shook her arm — ‘ loose-limbed ; but he was the kindest , most considerate man you could ever wish to meet . |
| 10 | But HE was the damned . |
| 11 | ‘ But he was the only tennis player that any of us could relate to . |
| 12 | Her husband is from a good family ; in fact he is distantly connected with the Crane-Boulder 's family , but … but he was the youngest son , and you know what positions go to the younger sons . ’ |
| 13 | But he was the makeweight . |
| 14 | Her father was kindness itself , but he was the sort of man who gave little credit to anyone who had fallen from grace . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | He expected Bunny to stay behind , but he was the first out of the door . |
| 20 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But he was the first grown-up person who assumed I could discuss ideas . |
| 23 | This knight was named Oleg Ban , and he was so poor that he had only a horse and two hounds , nine men to fight for him , nine maids , and a wooden fortress ; but he was the bravest knight in the whole land . |
| 24 | He finished up at at at but he was the under-manager at . |
| 25 | Then I was able to er go for my own self , you know and er I went on doing locks , one thing and another , best I could and all that sort of thing and I worked for a , a bloke what was in there er be a little bloke but he was the best locksmith in the shop and I went to help him and er he used to give me all the to do and this and that and the other . |
| 26 | It was a man Robertson , I think was his name , but he was the mole catcher . |
| 27 | Marks had grown greyer , more hairy , more stringy in the years-since their last meeting but he was the same man , shrewd , cynical , and a cop to the bone . |
| 28 | Now that he had only hunters to school and exercise and Mrs Geary ( who loved the lads ) to feed him well , no question about his weight , life was kind and easier ; but he was the last to admit it and showed sympathy to nobody , least of all to Nicandra . |
| 29 | So he got something out of it but he was the only one that ever turned up . |
| 30 | ‘ I know they 've been questioning Mr Willard but he was the one who found her . ’ |