Example sentences of "there but " in BNC.
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| 1 | And taken seriously not only there but here as well , by critics who themselves long for success , and long too to lay bare their own poor breasts . |
| 2 | There was no one there but the family . |
| 3 | They did not waste time there but headed downhill , taking the shepherds ' road that slanted luminous green between clusters of birches , their shadows stretching ahead like gawky giants so that the children jigged to make the shadows jump and curved their fingers from their heads to give the giants silhouettes like devils . |
| 4 | What plodded through the front door was not the lovable , lazy hound who had once lived there but a grim-faced light bulb serial killer ! |
| 5 | It is used by vast numbers of people who do not live there but take lunch at its many bus stops . |
| 6 | ‘ It 'd be great to be there but I 'm not that fussed . |
| 7 | Not because I actually felt at home with all the ‘ weirdos ’ in there but because the shop really did look like my nan 's house . |
| 8 | Nothing really constructive got done there But it was where we first had a serious go at turning ourselves into a real band . |
| 9 | The truth was I really fancied going there but I did n't even have the money to bunk the tube . |
| 10 | There was a fair crowd there but it was scarcely crowded : John could n't have not noticed him . |
| 11 | ‘ What would be seen there but the same old crowd making fools of themselves ? ’ |
| 12 | She would take me there but could I wait while she changed her clothes . |
| 13 | He showed a setof perfect white teeth which no one there but Jack knew were false . |
| 14 | There would have been no sound down there but the sibilant trickle of water . |
| 15 | But what if America bans wine containing traces of a pesticide banned there but used in Europe ? |
| 16 | Like farming , at a time when vines and corn grew haphazardly here and there but were not cultivated , philosophy has never been properly and methodically developed . |
| 17 | ‘ All the people waiting at the bus stops were shrivelled up with the cold ; they looked so miserable standing there but cheered up when they saw us coming along . |
| 18 | The layout was already there but I have to admit that , given the choice , I would n't necessarily have designed the garden that way . |
| 19 | R was cold in there but Tammuz was so angry he decided he would n't turn the heating on . |
| 20 | They not only have to be able to get there but they have to be able to get their words and pictures out . |
| 21 | In Japan there were more than 40,000 kids there but they were so far away she must have physically looked half an inch high . |
| 22 | ‘ I would have loved to have been there but I just can not get around now . |
| 23 | There was also a control box with cables leading to the top of the metal curtain : I opened the box and pressed the red button and the green button to be found inside there but , again , nothing changed in the boathouse . |
| 24 | There are many other beautiful things there but I can not resist quoting a caption — for once , given in English — in the room set aside for the revolution of 1848 . |
| 25 | He did not know how long he lay there but was woken by the sound of turning pages . |
| 26 | No-one knew quite what he did in there but there were rumours he drank tea with his furniture and wrote furiously on the walls in a language only he understood . |
| 27 | The late Lorna Bloxam , 11 at the time , is also known to have been there but sadly her detailed memories are not recorded . |
| 28 | For many years , carding and spinning for Stanley Mill had been carried out there but eventually this ceased . |
| 29 | It was difficult to breathe up there but , far from the tourist pressures of Cuzco , it was easy to talk — any silence was filled with looking . |
| 30 | I knew the risk was there but it did n't become a major concern . |