Example sentences of "but [adj] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was a doctor but that was about the only genuine thing about him . |
| 2 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 3 | They used , they used to be about ten quid and you , we all thought it was really good value and went to all of them but erm they 've gone up to like eighteen pounds well that was the last one I went to last year so some of them are twenty two and I paid thirty for one of them but that was at the erm Savoy Hotel that little bluebird one , that 's a real debs ' ball . |
| 4 | But that was at the bottom of the second paragraph . |
| 5 | But that was for the future . |
| 6 | Perhaps , but that was for the future . |
| 7 | But that was for the future — you can read about it in one of my journals . ] |
| 8 | there was a stall in on Saturday , but that was for the erm , was it Saturday ? |
| 9 | A farmer said he saw a car down his lane on the Sunday night — just a pair of headlights , he thought it was a courting couple ; but that was on the other side of the ridge , away from Miller 's End . ’ |
| 10 | Two site foremen from Coventry had H19 and H20 ‘ front ’ , but that was across the aisle . |
| 11 | An equal amount of injury might have happened at a football match but that was beside the point . |
| 12 | She had come to no harm , but that was beside the point . |
| 13 | For a moment he thought he saw a figure at the far end , waiting , but that was from the nightmare , too , just a trick of the light and the fog . |
| 14 | There were notices all over , but that was like the Army to bring her all the way over to Sweetmary not knowing Hatch & Hodges had shut down its stage service . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought I was a bird of paradise before , but that was in the flow of what never quite materialised — that new play ? |
| 16 | It did manage one win , though , but that was in the back of Jim Clarke 's Lotus 43 . |
| 17 | An American had built a mountain lodge more than five hundred feet below the edge of the reserve where he offered horseback riding along the mountain trails and old logging roads — but that was in the tourist season which would n't officially open for a further month . |
| 18 | But that was in the future . |
| 19 | But that was in the past . |
| 20 | The Deputy Under Secretary had known heat before , but that was in the dim and dark ages when he had been young and ambitious , working the Counter Insurgency ticket in faraway Malaya and Kenya . |
| 21 | v.2.21 ) the Spartans did copy Athens and go over to a system of contributions of money not men ; but that was in the 370s . |
| 22 | But that was in the blueness . |
| 23 | For her mask — but that was in the blueness too . |
| 24 | No , the only thing what went wrong really was er a woman but that was in the top flat . |
| 25 | But that was in the future . |
| 26 | ‘ But that was in the chapel . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replied , ‘ but that was in the silent films . ’ |
| 28 | They can be but that was in the fridge Emma it was in the fridge ? |
| 29 | The Book of Remembering says that there were once many animals on a planet called Earth , but that was before the Burning , a long , long time ago … |
| 30 | But that was before the murder of the Bulgarian Georgi Markov , in exactly such a fashion , added a great degree of plausibility to the theory . |