Example sentences of "but [pron] were [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted Roman 's arms around her , she wanted to feel him againt her without the barrier of clothes , but there were things she had to say before she could allow that to happen . |
| 2 | Mr Catterall said they never found the dog but there were signs it had been dug out by someone else . |
| 3 | Blake 's ideas achieved little currency until late in the century ; but there were others who , by a different route , were coming to hold a comparable view of youth and innocence . |
| 4 | But there were others who had traded with the Carolingian West ( coins of Louis the Pious and other Frankish objects have been found at Birka ) , who had come to know Christianity from their trading connections , and who formed the bedrock of Anskar 's support . |
| 5 | He suffered defeat and banishment , but there were others who had to suffer it with him . |
| 6 | But there were exceptions : Gregory of Tours denied the claims of one would-be king called Munderic , who was crushed by Theuderic I. Chlothar I refused to acknowledge that Gundovald was his son , but there were others who thought that he was . |
| 7 | But there were others who , despite their disaffection to Hanover , had little desire to risk their necks for the positive alternative the Pretender represented . |
| 8 | She still wanted to look as she did in waking life , but there were improvements she could make . |
| 9 | No-one knew quite what he did in there but there were rumours he drank tea with his furniture and wrote furiously on the walls in a language only he understood . |
| 10 | Occasionally his job as a private insurance investigator allowed him this privilege but there were occasions which called for him to dress more formally . |
| 11 | But there were people who took poems like this at face value and were shocked . |
| 12 | She was late arriving at the restaurant where she had arranged to meet her friends , but they were women she had known since university days and were busy catching up on everyone else 's news . |
| 13 | The essence of Hollywood was that it used actors who became real before the camera ; they were not ciphers there to be manipulated by an all-powerful director but they were actors who were able to combine natural qualities and varied skills and techniques in such a way as to create an on-camera identity . |
| 14 | It was another medievalist , under Tolkien 's influence , who gave utterance to the view that ‘ Literature stops in 1100 ; after that there 's only books , ’ but they were sentiments which in a crude way echoed Tolkien 's own position . |
| 15 | She wanted to tell him that she loved him , but they were words she had never spoken to anyone . |