Example sentences of "be [pron] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've seen them — women like that monstrous Gabriela — push their husbands to ingratiate themselves with the Leader 's henchmen here , I 've seen the feasts they 've laid — like traps — very effective traps — those men , they 're nothing but walking bellies with fists-they grab , hit , grab , swallow , hit , the scum , I would n't lower myself to share a table with them . |
| 2 | She was too tall , too blonde to be anything but Hung Mao . |
| 3 | Alexei thought that marriage to Jehana was likely to be anything but settling , but he did not argue . |
| 4 | MY leisurely drive down the Antrim coast road last Sunday turned out to be anything but relaxing . |
| 5 | It 's nothing but screaming and colossal explosions and everything shaking and you keep thinking the next one is going to hit you , and you pray for it to stop , and it goes on , and on , and on . |
| 6 | As you say , this is nothing but fancy dress dancing at the Palais . ’ |
| 7 | The rural patriarchy is anything but unthreatening in the autobiographical novel by Aldo Busi ( but on autobiography , Busi warns : ‘ I contain my book , my book does not contain me ’ : Mondello 1984 ) . |
| 8 | Sweet Mignonette 's background is anything but blueblooded . |
| 9 | Steering without an effective rudder would have been difficult even with calm waters ; in the last decade the waters have been anything but calm . |
| 10 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 11 | Not for a moment must you imagine that this philanthropic gesture was anything but calculated on the part of the occupying military . |
| 12 | She half closed her eyes , but she knew that the picture she presented was anything but detached . |
| 13 | His reply was anything but reassuring . |
| 14 | As events were to prove in subsequent years though , it was anything but exhausted . |