Example sentences of "for [v-ing] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat . |
| 2 | No asymmetry is present for moving but temporally redundant signs . |
| 3 | Lizards , too , have small , leaf-shaped teeth with edges coarsely serrated ; good for shredding but not for chewing . |
| 4 | This has far reaching consequences at the cultural level not only for learning but also for the design of jobs and even for leisure pursuits which increasingly depend on the same kind of interface . |
| 5 | This spoon it must have , though it can not use a spoon for spooning but only brutishly wave one while mashing fistfuls of food — the feeding is done by Ma . |