Example sentences of "but [vb past] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorrel could n't run to the back of an envelope , but found instead a spare section of Filofax pages , just about the most expensive scribble pad you could get short of using ten-pound notes . |
| 2 | A chapter on famous people , I was amused to see , devoted only a paragraph each to renowned saints , scholars and patriots , but devoted nearly a whole page to Collier the Robber ( 1780 — 1849 ) , a noted highwayman . |
| 3 | Furthermore , it is almost certainly true that the great majority of the English laity did not share the intellectuals ' and higher clergy 's attachment to the doctrine of predestination , but retained instead a residual loyalty to the idea that all could potentially achieve salvation . |
| 4 | Currently some 28,000 co-operative farms and 2,600,000 ejidatarios accounted for half of all arable land but contributed only a small percentage of gross national income , and much of the country 's food was imported . |
| 5 | Mackenzie was whisked to the track hospital but suffered only a cut arm . |
| 6 | A vicar was guaranteed the vicarage but received only a certain portion of the ecclesiastical income . |
| 7 | She tried to find the right words to explain but discovered only a great disconnection between her brain and her voice , which ensured her silence . |
| 8 | He missed four short ones in a 74 but rolled home a 25-foot birdie putt on the last green . |
| 9 | She was working but had only a small salary and ‘ soon found that it would be impossible to care for John 's upbringing satisfactorily . |