Example sentences of "but it was [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was more , but it was technical jargon about his physique , state of health , last known meal and so on . |
| 2 | Well , it was a rather dull start in the south of the area , but it was unbroken sunshine for Fife and Central regions . |
| 3 | So And then of course we had our own thrashing mill and we did our own thrashing but it was great fun down the glen when they got the thrashing mill in . |
| 4 | You did your business but it was great fun at the same time . ’ |
| 5 | The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out . |
| 6 | ‘ But it was good food on board , on the whole ; and you could always help yourself with biscuits and a bit of cheese or something . |
| 7 | I would think so , yes I think , I would think so because the bedroom suite , the bed upstairs er of that er suite is quite a good quality bed , you know , it 's only a spring mattress of course it 's not a , it 's not a box thing like we 'd have today , I mean , what we have in our other room , I 've always intended to change it , but never got round to it , but it er just had a spring mattress , but it was good quality of its time |
| 8 | This was not that event , but it was good practise for it . |
| 9 | The boundaries may have been short , with netting to protect the club 's offices , but it was worthwhile practice for Smith , and a glimpse of warmer times ahead for a remarkable crowd ; there were about 100 well wrapped-up diehards , one of whom plonked himself in a red deckchair on the outfield , dangerously at midwicket . |
| 10 | He was confronted , briefly , by an Arsenal supporter in the car park an hour after the match and Jensen said : ‘ Yes , Durie was kicking me — but it was that kind of game . ’ |
| 11 | But it was all part of my compulsion to lose weight . |
| 12 | It seems odd that a man with so much of a reputation for sexual encounters should cringe from public contact , but it was all part of his reserve . |
| 13 | He could n't do the job , he knew it and his father-in-law knew it , but it was all part of the grand master plan : How To Keep Your Daughter At Home . |
| 14 | He tells us in his autobiography that this decision produced a breakdown in his wife 's health , but it was all part of his efforts to become a pure Buddhist leader and hence bring benefit to burma . |
| 15 | ‘ We had a bad result at Stoke City last Friday night , but it was all part of a learning experience for young players . |
| 16 | But it was all part of the job . |
| 17 | you know , but it was all sort of like that . |
| 18 | Perhaps that type of patronage was of small value in comparison with the need to provide employment for friends , but it was all grist to the mill of a politician intent on keeping his interest solidly united , and it was certainly not scorned by those with bursaries in their gift . |
| 19 | But it was one thing for James I to have his ideas influenced by Scotland 's natural enemy , England . |
| 20 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 21 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 22 | But it was commercial hunting by European settlers that devastated the animals ' populations . |
| 23 | The judge said that he did n't know what the odds of such an event were , but it was bad luck for the man and good luck for justice . |
| 24 | But it was horrible being in one tiny room . |
| 25 | It was n't an ideal situation , but it was educational provision of a sort , and local people thought that was better than nothing at all which was what the girl was being offered at the time by the authorities . |
| 26 | Literally translated , Vogelsang means ‘ bird song ’ , but it was some time before the dawn chorus when the Squadron Sergeant Major bawled out the orders for reveille . |
| 27 | This form of socialism , based upon the accountability of the state to society rather than vice versa , would take a long time to develop , but it was this form of socialism that supporters of perestroika hoped the Party Conference would develop further — as indeed it did . |
| 28 | But it was vigorous criticism of him in the 1922 Committee by Tory back-benchers which convinced Brittan — and Mrs Thatcher — that he no longer enjoyed the confidence of the party in Parliament . |
| 29 | The noise must have been awful but it was sweet music to my ears . |
| 30 | We had seven carts to carry our furniture up that icy hill , but it was hard work for the horses . |