Example sentences of "but it was [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could have refused , of course , but it was a choice I should n't have forced you to make . ’ |
| 2 | I daresay it 's dull , being tied to a house and young children , but it was a life you chose , after all , you were so eager to rush into it that you did n't even take your degree . ’ |
| 3 | But it was a haste they paid for dearly in emotional terms . |
| 4 | John MacEwen said he 'd follow me in his pick-up , and that the journey would probably kill him , but it was a chance I had to take , he was definitely going to die if I left him there . |
| 5 | He and Warnie , for example , had decided that they would erect a memorial window to their parents in St Mark 's , but it was a decision they quickly came to regret when the Lewis , Hamilton and Ewart cousins all weighed in with suggestions of what should go into the window . |
| 6 | Well , sir , I thought I had only found a cook , but it was a crew I had discovered ! |
| 7 | But it was a role he very nearly did n't get when the film 's backers decided he had become too difficult to handle . |
| 8 | Heated pain seemed to be filling her but it was a pain she clung to desperately , a feeling she had never experienced before . |
| 9 | I could not remember ever having seen one of his poems in The New Yorker , but it was a magazine I saw only occasionally in those days . |
| 10 | Having a slaughterhouse for his pigs next-door may have been very convenient for Charles , but it was a luxury he was soon to lose : The Frome Turnpike Trustees had decided to drag Frome into the modern world by demolishing Rossiter 's buildings as part of a scheme to widen the road and ease the notorious bottleneck north of the bridge . |
| 11 | He did not amplify nor did Lily ask the nature of that risk , but it was a comment he profoundly believed , an emotion rather than a rational thought . |
| 12 | The old man 's offer to buy the cottage was tempting , a few thousand pounds could be put to immediate use , but it was an offer he could n't accept . |
| 13 | His caresses had urged her to a wild , uninhibited passion she 'd never known she possessed — but it was the love she felt for him that had sent her into such a breathtaking completion . |
| 14 | But it was the way they made him feel . |
| 15 | But it was the way it was . ’ |
| 16 | But it was the way you spoke ! |
| 17 | But it was the tranquility she remembered most . |