Example sentences of "anything [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nat will not put anything on but ankle socks . |
| 2 | Perhaps it 's the pipistrelle bats and that 's why , if I looked , I would n't see anything outside but a disturbance of shadow . |
| 3 | It says I ca n't give anything away but that the show is show 's not a load of old cosh tonight |
| 4 | Brownies never leave anything behind but their thanks , but the Earl does n't know that . ’ |
| 5 | I read anything really but especially biographies and nonfiction . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah , but I mean paper qualifications do n't mean anything really but that 's what people want , they want to see that you 've got |
| 7 | Of course they were n't er well off or anything there but he was a clever boy you see |
| 8 | Well ladies just do n't wear anything there but men wear a tie do n't they . |
| 9 | But he would give her anything then but it were like the doctor said it was too late . |
| 10 | I ca n't prove anything yet but he 's not just making sausages , he 's got some racket going buying and selling stuff on the side and the money 's not going through his books . |
| 11 | Is it perhaps true that for many of the English , poetry has never been anything else but a superior parlour game ? |
| 12 | Says Sir Timothy Turtle , ‘ My daughters ne'er look In anything else but a cookery-book : The properest study for women designed . ’ |
| 13 | It is That which alone is , which constitutes the stuff of which all things are made , which subsists by virtue of its own power , which is not supported by anything else but supports everything that exists . ’ |
| 14 | But it has never been shown that induction is logically more respectable than a formalized argument from analogy , indeed that induction from some particulars leading to deduction of others is anything else but a roundabout argument from analogy . |
| 15 | It could n't have been anything else but Dad had put out the best wood the first time ; some of the rest was rotten . |
| 16 | The Unix festival , UniForum ‘ 93 , did n't feel as successful a show as it was last year : it was spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , and attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic — like as not , it was talking about the pre-registration which was up , but unofficially we hear attendance was down ; UniForum is still more a Unix celebration than anything else but it remains to be seen whether there will still be things to celebrate or whether erosion has set in . |
| 17 | You ca n't think of anything else but white . |
| 18 | It was difficult for them to appreciate that [ h ] -loss could ever have been anything else but a stigmatized form : in so far as they knew of evidence for it in earlier centuries , they tended to dismiss it , seemingly in the belief that ‘ vulgar ’ and ‘ careless ’ usage is not implicated in linguistic change . |
| 19 | Whatever the reasons for this trend may be , it can not be anything else but discouraging to egalitarians . |
| 20 | I do n't know if he meant ‘ no , not too long ’ or ‘ it 's no good hoping it will be anything else but very long ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I never seem to talk about anything else but food , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 22 | " But you did n't say you could n't cook anything else BUT sausage and bloody mash ! " |
| 23 | The the He was the old teacher and he and his sister never spoke anything else but the Gaelic . |
| 24 | Why I do n't know , but his sister and him never spoke anything else but the Gaelic . |
| 25 | I never wanted to be anything else but a nurse . |
| 26 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 27 | I , I think er erm when I first started down there , it was a job , I thought well this is a good job fifteen bob a week , that 's , that 's a lot more than some of the other boys who 'd left school got , they were twelve and six you see and erm , I think erm I came back out of the forces and took over more responsible jobs , I do n't think I could have gone to anything else but transport . |
| 28 | Presented to them like this , dace can do hardly anything else but accept your bait . |
| 29 | it 's not one that will inspire me with erm with , with great kind of nationalistic fervour as might have happened in the past when , when you look at nationalistic movements , so erm presumably we 're looking at a range of behaviour which goes from extreme fanatical group membership to relatively weak identification with a group but really does n't to anything else but saying you know if you ask me what I 'll say I was British . |
| 30 | I had no idea of doing anything else but study there for the first three years after school , for which my hardworking and frugal parents had saved enough money . |