Example sentences of "but [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found that the swamp was forcing them back and that they could no longer keep even an erratic southward course but were withdrawing towards the east , away from where they believed the Outlaws ' Camp lay . |
| 2 | And when because the family doctor really know whe anything that was happening but was holding on the phone over the phone , oh he 's got a pain you know . |
| 3 | from north of the border Joe Jordan could be in the running … he 's at Celtic at the moment but was looking for a chance to return to English football … |
| 4 | from north of the border Joe Jordan could be in the running … he 's at Celtic at the moment but was looking for a chance to return to English football … |
| 5 | It was only when she realised that she had n't used the unarmed combat that was by now second nature to her , but was struggling in a manner that was instinctive , that she stopped . |
| 6 | He had expected a rise in road duty , but was hoping for a clearer differential between diesel and petrol prices . |
| 7 | Atwater , who was thought likely to be given a ceremonial party post , was widely considered to be one of the key architects of Bush 's 1988 presidential election victory , but was suffering from an inoperable brain tumour . |
| 8 | The man moved efficiently past a child who had succeeded in entangling her pony 's reins with her feet and who was being blasted for it by a girl who could n't have been more than sixteen , but was sounding like a woman three times her age . |
| 9 | I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill . |
| 10 | He put down a volume of Hume — he no longer read the daily papers , but was working through the world 's philosophers , from Plato onwards , and had now reached the Scottish humanists . |