Example sentences of "but [pron] [was/were] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that , he was like Wallace and like Norman Lockyer , the first editor of Nature ; but he was unlike them in that he went on to become President of the Royal Society , at the time of the First World War . |
| 2 | But it was as nothing to the humiliation which the unions would pour on his government in the last two years of its term . |
| 3 | But it was about anything like two to three feet away from the side of the And they used to drop a plank down you see ? |
| 4 | Perhaps she really did little more than lend her name , but it was to her at any rate that Queen Victoria 's secretary wrote with royal support for her venture ( the Queen had also supported the Victoria Press , named after her ) . |
| 5 | It was brought to her before I really got to know her , but it was with her for quite some time . |
| 6 | It is true that during the match the Linfield fans created trouble , but it was among themselves by throwing bottles at each other . |