Example sentences of "[noun] it was but " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm so we set off and I ca n't remember which village it was but it was towards the Humber Estuary somewhere and it was what I call a cul-de-sac village . |
| 2 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 3 | And er I do do n't know which day it was but she was sitting there fed up second day I 'm thinking she said well I , I 'm going home tomorrow , so I said no you 're staying in for the week ! |
| 4 | Erm I forget which discussant it was but it it 's wrong to think that there 's a difference I think between erm me , I was being characteritured as wanting a site specific policy , and Harrogate who were being characteritured as wanting a criteria based policy . |
| 5 | And er the dialect today whenever this experiments was which year it was but it said today . |
| 6 | It was a part of the prophecy of disintegration and chaos to be expected in the latter days ; within that context it was but one detail in a large picture , but here it was all , it was an answer . |
| 7 | The amiable West Indian realized that the man who served up the frothy coffee was not looking at his watch in order to see what time it was but more to indicate that he knew damned well what time it was — late , too late . |
| 8 | At that time it was but one element in the whole decision-making process of what was I going to do with my life . |
| 9 | I do n't know what time it was but it must have been late . ’ |
| 10 | I wo , well she was awake in the middle of the night , I do n't know what time it was but all I could hear was mummy , mummy , mummy ! |
| 11 | Well I do n't know what make it was but it came from the house , the furnishing company of Union Street , Plymouth I ca n't remember the shop . |