Example sentences of "but it [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transport planner Andy Hyams told members the introduction of an ‘ access only ’ order to cover the whole area was investigated but it was felt it would be widely abused and difficult to enforce . |
| 2 | ‘ But it was assumed you 'd do it , ’ said Pumfrey , cutting into his whinge , or his tactical ramblings , whichever they were . |
| 3 | When the ideas of the French Revolution concerning the rights of nations to self-government reached the Slovenes , they already had many of the attributes of a modern nation , but it was to take them over a century to achieve a form of self-determination within the wider Yugoslav state . |
| 4 | It all started out as a silly student prank , but it was to mark me for life . |
| 5 | Mrs Wilson had not died , but it was said she was very ill and was expected to die . |
| 6 | so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer . |
| 7 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 8 | A man certainly came that night but it was to see her , not her husband . ’ |
| 9 | But it was confirmed he is concerned that the cost of tunnelling through south London could be ‘ horrendous ’ . |
| 10 | And it were n't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like . |
| 11 | Not only was I famed as a doctor , but it was rumoured I had the power of expelling demons from the bodies of the possessed . |
| 12 | But it was to cap it all her temp started today |