Example sentences of "but [adv] [v-ing] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wearing huge aviator glasses , designed to hide but only drawing attention to the palely perfect face , the unlipsticked mouth , the silvery blonde hair fine as maize silk , which was drawn back into the nape of her neck . |
| 2 | The severe but not unalluring woman to Wakeman 's left now entered the exchange , stabbing her cigarette in the ashtray as she spoke . |
| 3 | Skiing : Park City creates a fantasy on the carpet John Samuel reports from Utah on an artificial but nonetheless entrancing start to the World Cup season . |
| 4 | It shows a more mundane but still corrupting insensitivity to liberty , a failure to grasp its force and place in modern democratic ideals … . |
| 5 | Refusing to pay the army 's wages risks not only throwing away all that has been achieved , against the odds , but also consigning Cambodia to renewed civil war . |
| 6 | I spent most of the day mooching around Winnipeg , seeing a couple of owners once in a shop selling Eskimo sculptures , but never coming face to face with anyone who might know me . |