Example sentences of "[adv] but [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amy Winship stood there , all but wringing her hands . |
| 2 | The 24-year-old Scot had all but shelved his Formula One ambitions for a year when the Pacific Racing team , with whom he had negotiated a deal , postponed their plans for a year after a last-minute sponsorship hitch . |
| 3 | Almost tip-toeing , indeed all but holding their breaths , the two hundred crept over . |
| 4 | His critical eye revels in the play and contrast of light on form composing the stark minimal images that have all but become his trade mark . |
| 5 | ‘ Let's black him , ’ Fergal suddenly announced , when they had all but drunk their way through the bottle . |
| 6 | Christopher Gore has all but destroyed his family . |
| 7 | Fortunately , Tumbleweed are redeemed by the remaining songs : ‘ Carousel ’ which all but abandons their rockist bluster in favour of a gentler , almost poppy sound ; ‘ Stoned ’ , a brilliantly dumb dope-tribute , and ‘ Millenium ’ , which is a little too heavy on masturbatory muso-isms , but manages to retain enough hyperactive charm to make it a success . |
| 8 | Under the guise of meeting some of its obligations due to the Australian government under its ‘ partnership for development programme ’ — where foreign multi-nationals must reinvest some of their profits back into Australian industry — Sun Microsystems Inc has all but embraced its two technology pariahs , X-terminals and the Motif interface . |
| 9 | Indeed he almost felt for music , wild dancing now : Winnie returned , with two wines , which was just as well as Rab had all but drained her glass . |
| 10 | In front , Ramsay 's own mount tripped over a fallen beast and rider and all but threw its own , but recovered . |
| 11 | And I can all but hear her laugh in my ears , too . |
| 12 | And yet it all but shattered your life and mine and all our work , and killed an unfortunate , rash young man no worse than the most of men , and hardly deserving of death . |
| 13 | If negotiated cuts in central Europe do in fact put Warsaw-pact troops on a defensive footing , Hungary 's army , now 100,000 strong , would all but lose its job as flank guard for a Russian thrust west . |
| 14 | He 'd all but forgotten his own early childhood at The Grange , when he had been the gardener 's scruffy little lad , graciously permitted by Lady Debrace to play with her son . |
| 15 | He was not wholly a man of nostalgia , and the road accident which cost him his son at the age of 21 all but destroyed his religious faith . |