Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time I dismissed this but later it was a piece which fitted the puzzle . ’ |
| 2 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 3 | Harmless after all , and the Rector was not superstitious but perhaps it was as well , for they would all have laughed . |
| 4 | All aluminium saucepans including those from Buckingham Palace here collected in July nineteen forty but unfortunately it was not of the right grade and so housewives then suffered for the rest of the war and having to cook with inferior pans . |
| 5 | I mean there 's much better hot showers it was okay but then it was , and the |
| 6 | It had been impossible to stop my body from charging but now it was impossible to fight off the fatigue . |
| 7 | Under other circumstances she might have found it avuncular but now it was oppressive . |
| 8 | The political and social context and the popular mood seemed to demand an upbeat cinema but this cinema was not to be a cinema of fantasy or make-believe but rather it was a cinema created in the image of its audiences . |
| 9 | Well it was n't , it was n't that bad but like it was really weird because like you could see like , people like , especially the lads , just sort of looking at you and then like not meaning to be pervy but just like , looking again as if to think why has Emma got a , a extraordinary lump on half the top of her boob , you know ! |