Example sentences of "but [pron] [was/were] [not/n't] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was not prepared for the raking over of academic arguments on defining poverty around when John Moore , then Secretary of State for Social Services , said poverty no longer existed . |
| 2 | I was convinced of it , but I was not staked on it . |
| 3 | I was told that the incidence of re-offending was very low but I was not given any actual figures in support of this . |
| 4 | The plane was loaded down so much that it had difficulty in skimming the tops of those large mountains , but I was not troubled , thinking that the pilot was a well-trained American , until after an hour of this mountain hopping a small Chinese face appeared at the cockpit door and said , ‘ Is you all all-lite ? ’ |
| 5 | We must have been poor or deliberately austere , but I was not told … |
| 6 | ‘ Make way for Miss Louise , ’ they chorused , but I was not bothered by their sarcasm : it was the snowballs that some threw that mattered . |
| 7 | Oh , I admit it was rather clever of you to engineer that intimate little scene we 've just shared , but I was n't fooled . |
| 8 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 9 | But I was n't consulted about the cover . |
| 10 | I did n't know what I expected ( chanting and rune casting , perhaps ) , but I was n't prepared for the tingling sensation affecting the areas of my body immediately underneath her small hands . |
| 11 | Over the past few years , the quality of in-service training courses for teachers has improved greatly , but I was n't prepared for the effort [ and financial resources ] that had obviously been put into the ‘ Quality in Action ’ workshop . |
| 12 | ‘ But I was n't thought of as a Beauty . ’ |
| 13 | My mother and father both encouraged me in my playing , but I was n't encouraged to get into the business because they knew it was kind of tough . |
| 14 | Well , I could have killed the bastard on the spot but I was n't armed . |
| 15 | But I was n't allowed to take it with me when I left ; it was n't really mine at all . |
| 16 | The building , the staff and the food were wonderful , but I was n't allowed out of the front door on my own . |
| 17 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 18 | But I was n't allowed to have that either , was I ? ’ |
| 19 | Even more widespread was extra spending by carers on items and services which were needed by the disabled or elderly person , but which were not covered by the financial contribution which the latter made to the household budget ( even when this included both retirement or invalidity pensions and disability benefits ) . |
| 20 | Then I persuaded Vernon Hunt , who was Chief Inspector at that time , of the desirability of publishing information about those accidents on which £e had a great deal of information but which were not made the subject of a formal investigation . |
| 21 | Conciliation and compromise were other important indigenous principles that carried official sanction in pre-British times but which were not accommodated by the formal institutions set up by the British . |
| 22 | However , many of these dogs have not complied with other sections of the law , such as neutering , and more than 600 are no longer alive — including over 100 puppies which were conceived before the Dangerous Dogs Act came into force , but which were not allowed to be sold or given away after the legislation was introduced . |
| 23 | The Prime Minister and his immediate allies had rejected the possibility of devaluation — the ‘ unmentionable ’ solution to which Crosland was committed , but which was not faced until 1967 . |
| 24 | In Ealing , where bills increased by 30% but which was not capped , the swing to the Conservatives was 6.0% . |
| 25 | One might wish to locate every entry whose last illustrative example was dated before , say , 1880 , but which was not labelled obsolete or rare , in order to add to each a more recent quotation . |
| 26 | ‘ But you were not sent into exile , or to work in the mines ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But you were n't supported and it did n't work … so what have you achieved ? ’ she asked sarcastically . |
| 28 | They could n't tell you off for not turning off the lights but you were n't meant to be out of your dorm or even out of bed . |
| 29 | Yeah I could be going in the but you were n't told that . |
| 30 | But you were n't allowed to come out the pit , I mean you had to wait until knocking off time you see , before you were come out , Anything like that I mean er unless you 've got broken legs or anything like that . |