Example sentences of "but it [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the news that we knew that 's all that it could turn out to be , but it was just waiting to hear for it officially and going all through these months . |
| 2 | Mildred did her best to arrange the bucket hanging from the back , but it was obviously going to spill the minute they took off , she put the bucket back onto the window-sill , climbed onto the broom first , and then settled the bucket in her lap . |
| 3 | But it was everywhere beginning to change life before 1900 . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry he had to go the way he did , but it was always going to happen , the sort of man he was . |
| 5 | But it was now beginning to have the desired effect , as the newcomers started to participate . |