Example sentences of "[v-ing] but it was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 2 | I stirred the potato powder into the liquid and would have begun eating but it was too hot . |
| 3 | If they were going along trying to open shop doors , they could go in as a suspected person loitering but it was n't looked upon very favourably by the courts . |
| 4 | I was fighting but it was not enough , ’ Edberg said . |
| 5 | ‘ I am obviously very pleased about winning but it was also great that my parents were here . |
| 6 | And everyone thought he was posing but it was actually who did it . |
| 7 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |