Example sentences of "be [adv] [to-vb] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who would be most to blame but those who have so long suppressed it ? |
| 2 | Only even I could n't have known there 'd be nowhere to stay but at the Hall ! |
| 3 | The decision to select Alistair Campbell of Wallasey and Louis Botes of New Brighton in Sunday 's President 's Trophy representative side against the Merseyside Competition may mean paid professionals are here to stay but it was not a decision made lightly . |
| 4 | The stress and tension of the occasion were partly to blame but the incident was also an early symptom of bulimia nervosa , the illness which took pernicious hold later that year . |
| 5 | I wan na put this er question of what this playhouse is about a back to a stage to the platform because I think that 's where it belongs er were here to criticize but not to initiate . |
| 6 | If you are really good there is nowhere to go but up to where there is money to be made and awards to be won . |
| 7 | Xanthe 's first instinct was clearly to refuse but , sulky or not , she was also lonely , and there was an undemanding grandmotherliness about Mrs Young that promised an uncritical listening ear . |
| 8 | There was nowhere to sit but on the narrow bed beside the fireplace . |