Example sentences of "was [adj] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I I was eleven but by the time but I had a birthday , you see , er in the summer and er er well August actually and so when I started at Stowmarket I was twelve , you see , and er and er I was at Stowmarket School and scholarship for four years and er well I do n't know whether I really liked school , did you ? |
| 2 | The hunt for other reasons to explain the behaviour of a Ceauşescu misses the point : he was not ‘ really ’ a patriot or ‘ at heart ’ a reformer , though when he proclaimed that he was at any given moment one thing , he was that but at the same time was the opposite . |
| 3 | He was good-looking but of the rough , hirsute kind . |
| 4 | The tide was high but on the turn , lapping sluggishly against the rocks at the river 's edge . |
| 5 | It was empty but for the Doctor , looking very smug , and the TARDIS . |
| 6 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |
| 7 | He was standing in his pyjamas in his bedroom , which was empty but for the usual furniture . |
| 8 | At that time grant was minimal but by the 1930s it matched the rates as a source of current income ( Bennett 1982:44 ) . |
| 9 | Ore from the further mines was pack-horsed but from the Red Dell Foot works it was probably carted . |
| 10 | Brian Stewart , chief executive of Scottish and Newcastle , said the Budget was wide-ranging but in the context of his own industry , the Chancellor 's decision to raise excise duty on beer flew in the face of commercial reality . |
| 11 | From its harsh too-shiny texture there was no doubt it was synthetic but from a distance it looked like a black cat 's pelt . |
| 12 | His voice was soft but with a hard mechanical edge like a speak-your-weight machine , and he said ‘ men ’ like his friends said ‘ General ’ . |
| 13 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 14 | His hair was grey but with a trace of red hair remaining in his bushy eyebrows . |
| 15 | ‘ I doubted the figures , yes , the drop in profits was apparent but without the both sets of accounts , there was no hard evidence of any malpractice . |
| 16 | The droid was motionless but for a cautious antenna trembling at its apex . |
| 17 | Carol 's kitchen was silent but for the hum of the refrigerator . |
| 18 | First he was angry , then he was surprised but in the end he became very excited . |