Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb past] to [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over West Francia as a whole , the eleventh-century castellans became but loosely subordinated to their princes . |
| 2 | Farrell looked puzzled but merely nodded to his companion . |
| 3 | She joined in the training sessions , but soon found to her chagrin that in the personal fitness stakes he left her standing . |
| 4 | The papers received their photo of the band with Best but also scurried to their files to find their own action shots . |
| 5 | In this he not only antagonised Calvinists by describing the doctrine of Predestination as cruel and unjust , but even appeared to his friends to be contradicting St Paul and St Augustine in denying that Adam 's original sin was transferred to his descendants . |