Example sentences of "all [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their limbs hung all awry but round the neck of each was a thick , purple line , while the purple-red faces were contorted , swollen tongues held fast between ice-cold lips , eyes rolled back in the sockets . |
| 2 | Miller and his colleagues ( e.g. Miller and Springer 1973 ; Miller and Schachtman 1985 ) have shown that certain ‘ reminder ’ treatments are capable of restoring lost behaviour , thus demonstrating that the information necessary for the behaviour in question must have been present all along but was merely unavailable to the mechanisms responsible for controlling behaviour . |
| 3 | as if she had known this all along but had hoped something different . |
| 4 | They were all in But the tinned stuff , everywhere now is n't it . |
| 5 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 6 | The palace is playing it all down but clearly this visit is not going according to plan . |
| 7 | I 've only wok woken up to this in the later part of my life , but even then , it 's difficult to put it all together but er these three of them had it more succinctly than I could . |
| 8 | I I think I think that 's you 're just in the wrong , I think because you 're sentiments are all elsewhere but what is actually being proposed is every bit as vicious as what each of the members of both the other groups have said . |
| 9 | Same all through but he wants he wants , he wants carpet down . |
| 10 | I like to see them all up but does n't it look bare when you take them down |
| 11 | I think we were all back but we could n't get out could we ? |
| 12 | She let herself in , went up the stairs , set the shutters ; she had meant to leave all behind but was seized then with the oppressive memory of Andrée in that room . |
| 13 | So we 've discovered quite a lot about it all really but erm in the second stanza he says , through the window I see no star . |
| 14 | No I would n't splash it all out but I 'd get quite a bit cos of the twenty years . |
| 15 | She had heard it all before but he always seemed to forget he had told her . |
| 16 | I 've seen them all before but it 's an event is n't it |
| 17 | He was not digging at all now but taking a breather , evidently . |
| 18 | At one point , at some point , very late , the old man breaks away from his partner , and spins easily on a shiny patch of yellow floor , his long arms folded to his sides , not dancing at all now but simply spinning , spinning , for quite a while . |
| 19 | Now Sammy was a character in himself he was a bachelor and his wi his sister was Fanny the elocutionist er and , and er there the women used to , to go into old Sammy 's shop on a Friday night simply to be entertained by all the wisecracks and nonsense that used to go on in there , and somebody would say I suppose you 're off this weekend and he 'd say yes I 'm off to my little widow in Wales , he had n't got a little widow in Wales at all now but it would the start of the conversation going . |
| 20 | Outside , the smoke enveloped everything all around but the square of magnesium light , which now turned green . |
| 21 | There were houses all around but all the doors were closed and the windows shuttered and there were great heaps of what looked like garbage in the dark , shadowed alleys between them . |
| 22 | The NHS was supposed to treat all equally but now it has become similar to the difference between first class and tourist class air travel . |
| 23 | They 're all there but their their umbrellas and their walking sticks |
| 24 | Yeah , well they 're all there but |
| 25 | The treatment of space is what good design is all about but far too many people think that if they can not afford to change a room structurally nothing else is going to alter the look and feel . |
| 26 | I do n't quite know what this is all about but I 'm sure I 've never seen either of you two gentlemen … ’ |
| 27 | In a vast ocean , empty of all else but one 's own boat and a tiny speck on the horizon , attention is drawn to the other boat . |
| 28 | Man is the climax of creation , superior to all else but subordinate to his Creator . |