Example sentences of "but [adv] his [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mitterand was too clever a politician to put anything in writing but nevertheless his seal of approval was clearly on the operation . |
| 2 | But gradually his terror of metal stairways subsided to little more than ordinary fear . |
| 3 | Mapanje said that he owed not only his liberty but possibly his life to Amnesty International . |
| 4 | It 's not his compositions that interest me but more his attention to detail . |
| 5 | This displays the writer 's common sense but also his lack of knowledge of legal phraseology . |
| 6 | His first thought was of the party who had just left him , but unfortunately his cry for help was not heard by them . |