Example sentences of "but they [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they were away from the rocks . |
| 2 | Various offices remained in the gift of the Lord Treasurer and the Chancellor of the Exchequer , but they were mostly of a subordinate kind . |
| 3 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 4 | She peered round for the nuns , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 5 | But they were just at the design stage when early on a July morning in 1978 twelve passengers died in a fire on Mark 1 sleeping cars of the Penzance to Paddington overnight train . |
| 6 | They were humans but they were just like the monsters . |
| 7 | Former Minister Arrese presented to the Cortes some " Notes on the Law of Succession " , but they were simply by way of personal observations , not rejection of the Law . |
| 8 | Refugees were seen as deserving sympathy and help , but they were not to be pampered . |
| 9 | There must have been a proportion of shy , bashful ones around , but they were not in evidence amongst the mob which harassed us day by day as we tried to make our way around the town on our own affairs . |
| 10 | But they were not in Great Britain in 1984 , and adjacent areas with similar relatively isolated mining communities ( notably Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire ) differed very substantially not only in their support for the strike call but also in their level of industrial militancy over a substantial period of time . |
| 11 | But they were not in conflict . |
| 12 | No , but they were n't for them , cos they , does n't really matter , they 've got so much pocket out of gas But the Gas is erm , make them increase prices at five per cent less than the rate of inflation that way . |
| 13 | But they were n't to her . |
| 14 | ‘ I felt really embarrassed , but they were n't at all bothered by it — in fact they were killing themselves laughing . ’ |
| 15 | But they were n't on an island ; he had other relationships and she did not wish to complicate her life with his inadequacies and hang-ups . |
| 16 | The injuries are n't pretty but they were n't on purpose . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , but they were n't on Social Security were they ? |
| 18 | ‘ They were writing about the country , but they were n't from it . |
| 19 | er I ca n't remember where I got them from , but they were n't in two dozen packets they were in dozens |
| 20 | Yeah , yeah , oh yes of course a lot of the people were , that were in the we were in under the balcony but they were up to their knees in plaster and goodness knows what that had come out of the roof they could n't move it all dropped round them . |
| 21 | But they were up in arms on Saturday as Liverpool crashed to Wimbledon . |
| 22 | But they were up against history and another well-backed Jackpot candidate went down . |
| 23 | LEICESTER went into the match against Charlton hoping to equal the best winning run in the club 's history … but they were up against their bogey club for the past two years . |
| 24 | Commercial people lagged behind , but they were ahead of the textile workers , the first working-class group to show strong limitation . |
| 25 | Oh , he had greased a few of the Old Bill 's palms over the years , such as the Chief Constable 's , but they were both in the Masons . |
| 26 | She peered out the window , but they were already past it . |
| 27 | But they were out of earshot now . |
| 28 | But they were usually in a minority . |
| 29 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 30 | But they were only to be offered upon condition that this created no precedent . |