Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 2 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 3 | Your husband very rude and overbearing but you seemed to be quite content to submit and expressed your confidence in the business . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There was glass on the floor , but she seemed to be all right and so did Prince William . |
| 5 | ‘ If this issue had been built up by the NFU and sufficient Tory MPs had rebelled we could have reversed the cuts but there seemed to be little fight from Edinburgh . |
| 6 | But there seemed to be more to the fry adoption story than the dilution effect . |
| 7 | A mechanical amplifier had been envisaged by Edison in 1877 , and an electronic amplifier by Lee de Forest in 1914 ; but there proved to be more to solving the problem than that . |
| 8 | The various houses hid as much Champagne as they dared by sealing up some of their cellars , but they had to be very careful not to attract attention . |
| 9 | Erm but they seemed to be there for a specific purpose , but the normal day to day |
| 10 | There are loads of Leed supporters in Goole but they seemed to be more i interested in the young kids chucking themselves in the water jump on the running track which was right by the pitch ! |
| 11 | Admittedly , the Christian Brothers ' schools were open to all , but they tended to be academically inclined in curriculum and ethos . |
| 12 | She wanted to think that Matthew deserved better , but he seemed to be rather enjoying the puzzling little game of hearts that was being played . |
| 13 | It was very hot and I worried that he might be overdoing it , but he seemed to be wonderfully adaptable , and the sudden transmogrification from desk-bound boffin to agricultural worker seemed to have no effect at all on his physical well-being . |
| 14 | She 'd done a bit of elementary choreography for Therese and Gesner , but he seemed to be all right , a bit standoffish and dignified perhaps , but then he was the star . |
| 15 | She was a willowy five feet , five inches , but he had to be over six feet . |
| 16 | His fit seemed to have abated , but he appeared to be only half conscious . |
| 17 | It was not so , at the beginning of each new term she found it was not so , but it seemed to be so , and the same mixture of guilt and hate and sorrow would strike her anew , each time as forcefully , each time she got off the train at Northam Station . |
| 18 | Nationalism was still bourgeois nationalism ( and so irreconcilable with proletarian internationalism ) , but it needed to be sharply divided between the nationalism of the dominant imperialist powers and of those who were oppressed . |
| 19 | know wha what I mean , he brought that one home and he brought another quite nice traditional one , but it tended to be quite browny , and then another one and , er |