Example sentences of "but [pron] was [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's lads of real trouble there , but there was lads you know young lads with kids and mortgages and and we had er he I 'm sixty all your worries are over are n't they . |
| 2 | But it was Ryker who sat forward to restrain his companion . |
| 3 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 4 | Ruth clenched her hands inside her cloak , nerving herself to follow him ; but it was Fand who did n't move . |
| 5 | But it was Preston who 'd become the adulterer , not William . |
| 6 | But it was Wolf who succeeded best in the nineteenth century in bringing drama into natural history illustration . |
| 7 | But it was Woodruffe who came around from the cab . |
| 8 | But it was Barth himself who really carried this programme through , insisting that even the doctrines of creation and sin must be grounded in christology , that there is no predestination of God apart from Jesus Christ , that on the cross Jesus himself is the one rejected and abandoned by God , and that both judgement and mercy , reprobation and election , must be seen as worked through in him , All these lines must , so to speak , be carried into the centre where they meet in Jesus Christ himself , and be seen as opening out from him rather than as constituting a distinct frame of reference into which he can be subsequently fitted . |
| 9 | For Swindon it was shooting practice young Marcus Phillips on as sub for the first time nearly got a goal but it was Torquay who tookover towards the end … |
| 10 | But it was Morse who answered : ‘ If you wish , Lewis , I will give you the names and addresses of the three of them there that open all day . |
| 11 | But it was Morse who did so , as he continued : |
| 12 | Kubitsky was holding the weapon , but it was Sandor who was smiling as he watched the others — Yuan , Zukov , Mubarak , even Vorontseff — as they climbed unarmed from the hatch . |
| 13 | His departure spurred Widnes , especially lively second rower Richie Eyres , but it was Wigan who pounced first . |
| 14 | But it was Casaubon who fifty years later imposed Polybius as the expert in political life , as a far better guide than the fashionable Tacitus . |
| 15 | School Mission had first been conceived by Edward Thring , headmaster of Uppingham , but it was Eton which opened the first club in 1880 , followed by Harrow in 1883 . |
| 16 | But it was Belle who said , ‘ What about the hats ? ’ |
| 17 | They 'd only been beaten 3 times this season so you feared the worst , but it was Oxford who struck next ; another no goal , or no penalty , according to Kevin Keegan . |
| 18 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 19 | Nerves were edgy as both players dropped their service games to remain neck and neck at 5–5 , but it was Powell who was able to break Curtis at the crucial moment to regain the lead . |
| 20 | Roger Daltrey , all Shirley Temple curls and inflated biceps , swung his microphone dutifully and John Entwistle , in a tatty spiv 's blouson and shock of white hair , stood characteristically immobile , but it was Townshend who looked most chirpy . |
| 21 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 22 | Regular stars of the contest , Alan Crossthwaite and Tony Dance , both fought hard in the singles final , but it was Alan who was able to draw on the experience of his many double successes to come out on top . |
| 23 | But it was Wills who posed the most potent threat from the number one contender 's corner . |
| 24 | But it was Sarah who was left to take the flak . |
| 25 | But it was Cromwell who remained the arch repository of true evil in the world , Cromwell who had persecuted Ireland so greatly as to overshadow even Queen Elizabeth who , vilifying Mary Stuart , had put her to a martyr 's death . |
| 26 | The Woman leaned forward , her face eager , but it was Doyle who answered , dropping every word slowly so that it rippled like a stone in a pond . |
| 27 | But it was theatre which sucked in an eager audience across the channel . |
| 28 | Well it was a kind of fur coat but it was rabbit I think , it was . |
| 29 | But it was Monty himself who made the final decision . |
| 30 | In the second half , Alexander made two good chances for himself , but it was Bicester who deservedly equalised after a sustained spell of pressure when Mark Butler stabbed home a loose ball from a corner . |