Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's right , we were just going to pack but we got waylaid . ’ |
| 2 | The Oxfordshire Williams team were always going to win but with which driver … |
| 3 | The Scottish MEP Mrs Winifred Ewing and Mrs Maria Fyfe , Labour MP for Glasgow Maryhill since 1967 , who is the junior shadow spokesperson for the Scottish Office , were also invited to attend but were unable to travel to St Andrews . |
| 4 | Navan Resources were again invited to attend but again declined . |
| 5 | These are features that simple word processors were never designed to incorporate but which low-end desktop publishing packages find simple . |
| 6 | If Dunn admitted he owed Rich the money he claimed , and he had it — he was always going to pay but just forgot — he paid it over and that was the end of the matter . |