Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [indef pn] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time it was Tessa , holding her pyjamas in her hand and wearing nothing but the tweed overcoat pulled tightly around her . |
| 2 | I did knock at the door , then , when there was no response , took a couple of steps through into a passage floored with stone slabs and containing nothing but some buckets of coal and a rack of ancient clothes , gardening clobber by the look of it . |
| 3 | Oban was a different kind of noise and fat bare-armed people wearing far too much white and doing nothing but staring . |
| 4 | But when you 've got people stood behind a desk and serving you and doing nothing but serving you as you come . |
| 5 | ‘ The whole of the inmates were rather disorderly on Monday , in consequence of this being Christmas Day and having nothing but bread and cheese for dinner . |
| 6 | The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’ |