Example sentences of "but [pron] [was/were] [adv] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liverpool 's midweek exertions caught up with them in a low-key second period , but there was still time for Ian Rush to pass the latest in a seemingly endless list of personal landmarks . |
| 2 | I knew it could n't be restored to what it had been in the old days , but there was still room for a club where members had fun rather than did business . |
| 3 | But there was only misery for Middlesbrough as their treble hopes went up in smoke with a 4–2 defeat at home to Portsmouth in their replay . |
| 4 | Fraser 's party arrived back on 23 December , but there was only time for a brief celebration , as Stirling , Mayne and Lewes were off the following morning for another series of raids . |
| 5 | But there was always room for one more in the Conspiracy hunt . |
| 6 | But there was always time for a look at the lighter side of life too , as you 'll find out in , ’ A Decade of News ’ , tomorrow , Wednesday and Thursday at six twenty-five . |
| 7 | The other unauthorised absentees were a mixture of small numbers of ‘ ghost ’ pupils , wrongly on the register , or pupils in trouble and out of school — but they were largely pupils for whom some authorisation was expected . |
| 8 | But they were never ones for the tilling of the soil ; and they did not make great hunters . |
| 9 | The celebrations were for having pulled it off , but it was also time for many people who had been involved in the project to leave . |