Example sentences of "but [prep] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Okoye has endeared himself to team-mates and fans not only through his play on the field but through his incredibly modest behaviour off it .
2 But despite its apparently dated conventions
3 She smiled , not only with her mouth , but with her very large eyes , a ready smile .
4 He decided that although the Prime Mover had granted his wish , it was up to him how he used that time ; but with his badly broken body there was little he could do .
5 But in its more common uses it refers to an indirectness of relation between experience and its composition .
6 But in his very last years Engels changed his mind .
7 But in his still semi-confused state , writing a letter to Liza seemed beyond him .
8 As a place to observe what the DEA was up to in Nicosia , Coleman found the Eurame Trading Company ideal , but from his very first day on the job , he had an uncomfortable feeling that the same might be true for the opposition .
9 Papal favour was meted out not merely to the senior and cadet branches of the Albret under Clement V but to their more distant kinsmen and clients .
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