Example sentences of "but [pron] was [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her sins pursued her but I was not her judge . ’ |
| 2 | By the end of July , it had dried off down south , but I was n't there any more . |
| 3 | I was quite pretty , a neat enough lass , but I was n't anything special . ’ |
| 4 | But I was sure there must be some other reason for the red shift . |
| 5 | I did wonder whether we ought to call a , a , a , sort of emergency meeting of Harlow Health Action , but I was away myself until last few days , so it 's difficult to do that , so what we 've are , I 've agreed with Dave , the secretary , we 've produced a leaflet , which is based on one of the Federations leaflet , it gives the reason to be against opting out . |
| 6 | When I was er I started at the North Mid , but I was only there a few months |
| 7 | But I was always you know , always awful tense at er There 's a wee there 's a wee woodworm there sitting . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't mind a drink meself , but I was never one ter get drunk . |
| 9 | ‘ But she was just my secretary , ’ Julius said with a frown . |
| 10 | Mum kept calling her ‘ sister ’ , but she was n't my sister — Annie was and I did n't want to stay there , but they went off and left me . |
| 11 | She was here in Malta at his bidding , but she was n't his slave . |
| 12 | Folly racked her brains , but she was sure there was nothing she had forgotten . |
| 13 | Cis , as he sadly said , ‘ was wonderful , but she was not my mother ’ . |
| 14 | He wo n't be er , but she was so she said you 're gon na chop the tree down , that tree whe , that he bumped into ! |
| 15 | Cara broke off , but she was still it seemed trying to frantically keep her mind off how ill her beloved husband might be when , turning the conversation to her work , ‘ It 's a perfect beast that I 've got to forgo my interview with Vendelin Gajdusek . ’ |
| 16 | Dad was rude about them ( but who was n't he rude about ? ) and there were notices in shop windows — jobs advertised with the message , ‘ No Jews need apply ’ … |
| 17 | But there was also something else about which she was ashamed . |
| 18 | One of the features by which positivism was characterised earlier was its inclusion of the idea of ‘ pathology ’ : not only was crime seen as obviously wrong , but there was also something wrong with the people who did it — for example , in their biology or personality . |
| 19 | But there was also something isolated about her , and the battered mannish brief-case against the leg of her chair was touching . |
| 20 | But there was also what certainly everyone judged to be a a sawn off shotgun , pointed out one of the back windows . |
| 21 | She was usually so confident when dealing with even the most difficult of guests on the Day-to-Day programme , but there was just something about Luke Calder that seemed to throw her off balance . |
| 22 | She could be with Franky but there was nowhere they could go to eat , drink or dance . |
| 23 | He stepped down onto the platform looking around but there was nowhere she could hide , as if she would ! |
| 24 | But there was n't what you 'd call an organized sports group . |
| 25 | It was sort of a group kind of thing , but there was n't somebody telling him , ‘ You ca n't do that . ’ |
| 26 | I tried to find a more comfortable position but there was n't one , really . |
| 27 | Once behind the closed door of the dressing room we looked for a way out , but there was n't one . |
| 28 | It had a number of clauses in it designed quite properly to protect the company , but there was n't one , not one , that was relevant to my private life . |
| 29 | But there was n't there was n't another set this side . |
| 30 | But there was n't anybody to notice . |