Example sentences of "but it [was/were] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course was only eight kilometres , but it was cross country and had to be completed in less than one hour . |
| 2 | ‘ Look , Nate , ’ she thought and he answered , ‘ I do n't know where we are , ’ but it was without fear . |
| 3 | Manager Arthur Rowe signed him for the Palace , but it was under Dick Graham that Peter reached the climax of his playing career . |
| 4 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 5 | Tanagra tried to replace Thebes as informal hegemon of the league in mid-century , but it was on Thebes that Sparta 's plans centred in the First Peloponnesian War . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , but it was on fire at the time . |
| 7 | But it was on days like these that one longed for a friend , hoped for a caller . |
| 8 | Harriet gave him her portrait , which hung over the chimney-piece at Croisset ; but it was of Gertrude that he was fonder . |
| 9 | In 1900 Edinburgh Waverley Station boasted forty lady operators working in the telegraph department , sending out 4,000 messages a day.a But it was of course the First World War which suddenly gave a tremendous fillip to women 's employment in stations . |
| 10 | But it was of Celia that she spoke most , and with bitterness . |
| 11 | The Hindenburg tragedy in 1937 was dramatically reported live on radio , movie pictures were shown later in cinemas , but it was through newspapers and still photographs that a horrified world quickly learnt the precise nature of what had happened and what was about to unfold . |
| 12 | what , have a because we 're going to another chap had said are you sure I 've ordered this milk and it was this young man who 's serving you see , and so , the , the more senior librarian she says she said it reminds me of interesting reading , was about erm , it was a very sort , it was , it was an but it was about architecture of , of Italy , you see , it was quite a detailed thing , you know really good detail |
| 13 | I ca n't remember the exact circumstances but it was about West Bank leaving the district , a matter of some sensitivity at the time . |
| 14 | But it was at school that Brian 's musical talents flourished . |
| 15 | is that , that we as a group can , can er video the production , but it was at Perth , but in this case it would have to be |
| 16 | Alf was able to play on either flank of our defence and indeed , on occasions early in his career , in various positions further forward , but it was at left-back that he settled to give of his best from 1958 to 1961 . |
| 17 | But it was at Gainsborough Studios , where production head Maurice Ostrer believed in making films that offered the audience ‘ good themes and good laughs ’ that filmmakers produced the most distinctive melodramas of this period , entertainments created at the opposite extreme to the realist dramas . |
| 18 | He was looking annoyed now , but it was at Evelyn . |
| 19 | But it was to Kirk Douglas 's detriment that he was considered by the director to be a temperamental actor whom he did n't want to have to cope with on the set . |
| 20 | ‘ I think Gran might have demanded the money because she thought I had a right to it , but it was for love of me and despair at our poverty — her kind of rough justice . ’ |
| 21 | See all the time she was in pain I laughed even but it was for nerves like . |
| 22 | Such claims in fact go back as far as 1926 , but it was with Thom 's careful measurement of many stone circles and alignments in Britain and Brittany that a scientific analysis of the problem could be attempted . |
| 23 | But it was with Ashenden that Morse 's attention was immediately engaged . |
| 24 | In actual fact Rosemary had given her the idea about deglamorising herself , but it was with truth , when , feeling forced to reply , Leith answered , ‘ I 've worked hard for my qualifications . |
| 25 | The British connection dated back to the time when Jacobite refugees settled here in the eighteenth century , but it was after Wellington 's victories in the region early in the 1800s that it became serious . |
| 26 | Catalonia had possessed only a small section of a textile industry scattered all over Spain but it was round Barcelona that the cotton factory made its appearance . |
| 27 | There had , of course , been Christians here , as elsewhere in the Empire , since the middle of the third century , but it was by Clovis 's example — in fulfilment of a vow made in battle — that the heathen Frankish warriors accepted baptism from Remigius . |
| 28 | But it was from America that British consumers took the idea of the founding of the Consumers ' Association and its magazine Which ? in 1957 , which was soon selling 300,000 copies — almost as many as The Times . |
| 29 | Cec Blakemore was a Stourbridge lad , but it was from Redditch that he joined the Palace in December 1922 . |
| 30 | The criticism hurt , but it was from encounters like this that Charles discovered what his position as Prince of Wales was all about . |