Example sentences of "[vb past] but [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long — well , perhaps not that long-ago , in a drowsy Melbourne suburb called Surrey Hills , where Christmas came but once a year and the rest of the time there was the telly , you could say life was dull . |
| 2 | It 's still not clear exactly what happened but somehow the electricity surged into the ground around the pole . |
| 3 | Saturday arrived but still no luggage . |
| 4 | She entertained but fleetingly the notion of ringing the Bishop . |
| 5 | There was approximately thirty pupils attended the school when I first started but now the number has dropped to twenty three children . |
| 6 | He continued to look her up and down , with no evidence of warmth at what he saw but just a tightening of the hard lips and that aloof dark stare she had already witnessed . |
| 7 | It was n't what he said but more the way he said it , imbuing the words with so much meaning that she glared at him . |