Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared down at her plate , wishing she knew what to answer , wishing she were somewhere else but they never let her out of their sight . |
| 2 | The words were all right but the lack of emphasis made Peter suspicious . |
| 3 | The young ones were all right but the older ones were horrible . |
| 4 | Euturpia Kennedy turned untenanted eyes in a face laid waste ; even her lips , emptied of succulence , were hardly there but for the outlined ridge . |
| 5 | It was clearly time for political scientists to reassess their pluralist perspective on interest groups : groups were real enough but were they still a " good " thing ? |
| 6 | The matter of which they are made is crushed right out of existence … but it leaves behind it a gravitational field , as if it were still there but compressed into a very small volume of space . |
| 7 | I went why why , he said I just came round to your room and you were n't there but your music was on . |