Example sentences of "but [adv] i was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead I kept silent , but inside I was singing in a very loud voice . |
| 2 | He told me to wait , but soon I was ushered into an office with an enormous map of Parma province on the wall , and a senior officer in uniform sitting at the desk . |
| 3 | I knew nothing about Balder ; but instantly I was uplifted into huge regions of northern sky . |
| 4 | The language of special education had long been tucked under my belt , but now I was faced with filling in timetables with terms such as ‘ DD ’ time — departmental duties , to the uninitiated — in other words , time when I was not actually in direct teaching contact with students . |
| 5 | But underneath I was battling like mad just to stay afloat . " |
| 6 | Looking back , I can see how infantile my behaviour was — but then I was flushed with success , convinced that nothing and no one could thwart me . ’ |