Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] but a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However citified and sooty my surroundings , I was but a shilling bus-ride from the crags and heather of the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 2 | I was but an afterthought , and I doubt if they 're bidding high enough for me . ’ |
| 3 | Think that , for me , you were but a summer 's play , but summer is nearly over … |
| 4 | And if this second branch failed , there was yet another Mortimer , Edmund 's sister Elizabeth ; and like Philippa , even if she was but a woman , she had given birth to a son , the youngest Henry Percy , Hotspur 's heir . |
| 5 | It was but a village , and four small sailing boats , sails drooping and oars plying , moved out from a tiny wooden jetty as we moved in . |
| 6 | In a month it was forgotten ; it was but a dream , and to-day you might search in vain for the place which enthusiastic optimists averred was the cradle of a second Winnipeg . |
| 7 | Here was a face , buried in its cloud of hair , which looked more like a mask than a living thing , a mask such as might be worn on All Souls ' Eve to scare the children , all thickly white with painted black sockets for eyes and a mouth so crudely gashed it was but a slit . |
| 8 | It was but a minute , effendi . |
| 9 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |
| 10 | And from here it was but a step to suggesting that women did not take the whole thing seriously as a profession . |
| 11 | But I remember Kielder Valley before it was flooded , when it was but a gleam in the developer 's eye ; and I remember the futile protests and the sadness of the communities who lost their homes . |
| 12 | And it should be remembered that despite a tremendous volume of criticism that heralded the Bennett appointment as the Commandant of Pathfinder Force , it was but a murmur compared with that when he was appointed AOC of No 8 ( PFF ) Group at the tender age of 31 . |
| 13 | ‘ He was but a bearer . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps a mature perception of this fact lay behind the rather surprising acquiescence of most Norman lords in William the Conqueror 's succession as duke in 1035 , though he was but a child and a bastard . |
| 15 | ‘ T was but an accident . |