Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 2 | She had n't known Mark very well , but she had been there for Robyn when he had died , seen the agony that her friend had gone through . |
| 3 | He was tempted to go in and get it over , but he had been away from his temporary headquarters for a long time and he did not even know if the body had bean recovered successfully . |
| 4 | But he had been there at the right time , he had acted swiftly and effectively and she was alive . |
| 5 | But he had been there with Montaine and he could n't bear to see the place again — not then . |
| 6 | The war made severe inroads into his livelihood and at times he would be forced onto the hills to join the gangs doing the walling , but he hated being away from his family and they too suffered from the separation and besides the wages were not enough for all seven of them . |