Example sentences of "he [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is death-haunted , and it discernibly mourns the , the old ways which Horace valued all his life , and to which , again and again , his verse pays retrospective tribute , until at last he all but confesses that the old ways never were and the good place has not yet been . |
| 2 | It might be asked how a person could be proved to be ‘ aware that his conduct may be disorderly ’ when he genuinely but thoughtlessly is unaware of the existence of a bystander . |
| 3 | The other sentry 's trouser-leg darkened as he shakily but hurriedly turned the locking wheel set into the wall . |
| 4 | I put before the whole House my own views with an appalling frankness [ he typically but unwisely began the crucial passage ] . |
| 5 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |