Example sentences of "come but [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It gives but a flavour of what has gone before and what is to come but how the appetite was whetted . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Communion comes but twice a year for some |
4 | ‘ Christmas comes but once a year . ’ |
5 | As Italians and many others would agree , fortunately for the figure Christmas comes but once a year ! |
6 | It 's not every house that has antique vases thirty feet up a wall to dust … fortunately even at Claydon House the problem comes but once a year . |