Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [conj] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I knew that it was time to leave , and we said goodbye to them on New Year 's Eve . |
| 2 | But I knew that it was no massive dental operation in progress but that the sluice itself was blocked by leaves , that the water going into the pipe which fed the turbine was at a minimum and that if I did n't get up and deal with the problem the turbine would shut down and the melin would be pretty cold in the morning . |
| 3 | Soon I , too , was very distressed , but I knew that it was going to be dead within a few hours , and I was helpless . |
| 4 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
| 5 | But I gathered that it was because of some kind of political dissent , his being a member of an unauthorized group that had held secret meetings . |
| 6 | As predicted , he was holding a bottle , but I saw that it was almost if not quite full . |
| 7 | but I looked and it was actually |
| 8 | I , with a mother 's intuition , had suspected that ‘ things ’ were not right but I expected that it was one of those ‘ hiccups ’ … ) not so , I 'm afraid . |
| 9 | It meant driving up to the London Passport Office a few times and waiting around there for interminable periods , but I hoped that it was going to be worth it . |
| 10 | I am aware that it is not possible for me to call every Scottish Member at Scottish Question Time , but I thought that it was fair today — I hope that the House will agree — to get as far down the Order Paper as I possibily could . |
| 11 | Perhaps he was going to Porteneil to get drunk in the Rock Hotel , or perhaps he was off to Inverness , where he often goes on business he prefers to keep mysterious , but I suspected that it was really something to do with Eric . |
| 12 | But I supposed that it was only the sweet pain of yearning the sweet uncertainty of what-may-perhaps-be . |
| 13 | Er and they may have thought it was not acceptable from that point of view but you felt that it was okay . |
| 14 | She had lined her pencil-box with pond-weed ready to receive the creature , but she discovered that it was not easy to get the newt out of the hat and into the pencil-box . |
| 15 | One of the handful of paid staff , a young woman of about seventeen , was full of energy and enthusiasm , but she said that it was very difficult to keep enough volunteers to teach . |
| 16 | She had suspected in Lucca , all those months ago , that Mrs Browning no longer cared for her as once she had done but she saw that it was worse than that : she was a nuisance , plain and simple . |
| 17 | She gazed at Johnny beseechingly , begging him to understand , but she knew that it was going to be no good . |
| 18 | But she knew that it was blood . |
| 19 | Previously , she would have been driven by my father , but she announced that it was her intention to travel , alone , by train . |
| 20 | By then , I had n't got a wireless but she declared that it was an absolutely necessary thing for someone in my situation and brought me a red one , of the kind that worked on batteries thankfully , not the kind you had to carry for miles to be recharged ! |
| 21 | Putney was two miles away at the most , but she implied that it was two thousand . |
| 22 | But we knew that it was probably inevitable . |
| 23 | ‘ We were really nervous , ’ says Michelle West , ‘ but we found that it was the nervous people who stuck with the project . ’ |
| 24 | But they knew that it was a humiliating defeat . |
| 25 | But they said that it was a different matter over in the west , around Appleby way , where they generally paid more money but worked you very hard and gave you little meat . |
| 26 | He had no right to wear the tie but he felt that it was rather distinguished and so far no one had caught him out . |
| 27 | But he said that it was too early to make firm forecasts about demand . |
| 28 | But he said that it was too early to make firm forecasts about demand . |
| 29 | But he knew that it was a fantasy . |
| 30 | In theory he supposed he could organize PANUP from anywhere in the UK , but he knew that it was irrevocably bound to Larksoken headland , to the caravan , to that concrete mass five miles to the north which had power , apparently , to dominate his will as it did his imagination . |