Example sentences of "[adv] but [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Escaping is bad enough but doing it in the middle of the night is inexcusable . |
| 2 | Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart . |
| 3 | All these factors — and many , many more which are now a fact of our fast-paced , deadline-packed daily lives — are still helping to create symptoms of stress to the point where a single encounter with an apparently dyslexic British Telecom directory enquiries operator can all but tip us over the brink . |
| 4 | ‘ Indoors ? ’ asked Camille , who had again nearly lost her temper completely but retrieved it in the nick of time . |
| 5 | That was a plot against Rachel she had never thought of , to take up maths again but to do it in the USA . |