Use "all but" in a sentence

1. "All but the garden stuff is still in the lock-box on a raftershelf above the table

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2. "It's been over for all but the rich for two hundred years, a century here

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3. This was a nice house in all but the dead of winter, but he really wished he had someone to share it with

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4. “What?” Nancy all but shouted

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5. The ones he opposed would establish a boundary and cut off all but rudimentary contact with local society

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6. He reaches over and pushes the call button for the nurse, begins to make a notation on a file

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7. "Well, sometimes it's nothing at all but sometimes we're talking tens of thousands at a time

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8. Surrounded by Khmer lettering was a small but intricate picture of an event

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9. "Did youse two not see that there's a bleedin' queue back there?" The taxi driver was small but loud, in his 40's and worried that he might not get paid

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10. He is thirty years old, chestnut-haired with almond-shaped eyes, not very tall but handsome and sensual

11. "It was 2342 before the first of us actually touched down in the flesh and 2348 before the last of us was on the ground for the last time and the Lula was all but decommissioned to the state you see her today

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12. But on Afternoonday she packed him up and sent him off, promising to keep the home, children and ranch safe from all but asteroid impact in his absence

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13. ‘Oh no … he was comfortable, I suppose you’d say … he’d inherited some property when his parents died and I know he used that towards the cost of Abery Hall but other than that, he’s just worked and earned

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14. He told me that he found the chamber all but destroyed

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15. consuming all but never getting rid of the waste

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16. reveal all but the most obscure corners,

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17. "All but me," Nuran said

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18. Pin pricks of light glittered in the growing darkness, unusual clusters that had me confused until I twigged they were not stars at all but lights from mountain houses

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19. We here are a small but growing force whose purpose is to put an end to the horror that has engulfed our world

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20. Here the river spreads for miles across the flat land and all but the channel was choked with enthora and lon

21. On their second pass they managed to destroy all but about 20 of the misshapen, abominations

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22. Nowadays it is all but abandoned which makes it an ideal place for a cache

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23. Some miles to the south of London, nestling in the gently rolling, green swathed hills of the Surrey Downs, there stands an old country manor house, which boasts the thickest of stone walls, a small but nonetheless impressive little tower and ornate white painted wooden gables

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24. The famous television gardener always said that the great oak leant the estate an air of permanence and solidity; that it was a link with the past of this small but great house; that it was history and should stand, like himself, as a symbol of greatness and stability forever

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25. The old river course was nothing more than a deep and arid notch in the landside giving no shade at all but on we crunched, stumbling over tricky stones and gradually it grew less steep but with more boulders

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26. That evening the heavens opened upon the world and, depressed by the rain and the generally gloomy outlook, the young man all but gave up hope of ever finding true happiness

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27. One of Trish’s friends has trained in massage and they now have a small but growing clientele who come for the health spa facilities

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28. Heymon noted that, “All but seventeen were either confirmed at their destination or destroyed en-route

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29. Of that seventeen, I’m getting signals from all but the Pink Dawn, Splendid Serenity, Glorious Morning and Al-Harron

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30. rations, a small but effective arsenal and assorted medical

31. many of the old ways and trades had all but disappeared, and the

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32. one that would hide all but the toe caps and the soles of her big

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33. of the garden by the side gate, gunned his small but heavily

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34. He just got his finger on her call button when the girl grabbed his phone

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35. She opened the door and all but pushed him into the room

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36. She all but leaped up; then she began to chuckle, in a deep lusty voice realizing that Duncan had seen thru her little disguise

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37. He reached over the dresser and grabbed his belt buckle and all but ran for the door

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38. that it was a link with the past of this small but great house; that it

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39. say departed from all but himself

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40. “All but Lord Boras; it seems he is suddenly and conveniently out of touch

41. His face became hard and he all but growled at Naria

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42. He was all but hinting she should give up her courses

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43. There were some small but wild designs worked onto it in beadwork around the belly of the bottle

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44. the arch appeared to be a blank masonry wall but, when the transport

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45. worn, and in fact seldom used since it was rather slippery in all but

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46. For a moment only there was silence then all but the twins broke into genuine laughter both at the girls' expressions and at the image of them performing such a task

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47. all but spent,’ shouted Yassap

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48. Their strength all but gone

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49. The quiet of the early morning, when a local news reporter and the television crews from Exeter were fumbling in the dark, has now been replaced by a small but determined pack of news hounds

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50. If she had the list of names of those who the scholarships had been issued to, she could match up all but one, the one who was not Tdeshi

51. Still calm, "I did call but your mobile was off

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52. The communications tower was all but

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53. a faint inner green glow in all but the brightest of conditions

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54. He puts all but two of the syringes into a plastic carrier bag before filling the remaining two from one of the small, dark brown bottles on the table

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55. 'They’ve dismissed all but four of the household and

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56. All but two of the original members of Medical Ethical Oversight were still on it

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57. discarded all but one

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58. They went over Hyondahi’s paintings, he had recovered some of his talent and finished all but one

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59. I have no doubt my dreamy grin says it all but I nod just in case she has not got the message

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60. “So now you know it all,” Tahlmute sighed to Ava, “all but actually watching her try to take a microdot with a pin or some similar stupid move

61. " he answered without looking back, but instead picked up the dusty sheets removed from the windows the day before, turning he tossed all but one on the floor, in front of the fire place

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62. He gave his usual three short beeps on the call button, and was dismayed that Elmore answered almost immediately

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63. “All but the eat sir

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64. “They aren't hieroglyphics at all but a logical and consistent way of writing down the sounds of speech

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65. All but a few of the sporting societies at Malvern retained a serviceable membership during Summer Term

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66. The other children too, all but the girl, she sat motionless on the bitter cold surface of the ice, head lowered, staring in to her hands

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67. When she arrived, all but one dimly lit light was off, and it was way in the back, of the barn

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68. At first she had no idea what it could be about, but then realized it was Alan’s call button and that it was now her duty

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69. He knew damn well what really happened was that Desa found the phone in his pants and undoubtedly poked the call button and blasted Glayet’s ear half out the other side of her chips

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70. The office looked small but only because there were so many items

71. As did the rest of the group, all but Jim and two other men had come down

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72. 'Very probably yaag is the whole key to Kassidorian civilization' it said, without moving its lips, which were not really lips at all but mouth parts a little too scary to look at

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73. had the machinery to do it justice! Drowning out all but

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74. People in this culture enjoyed light switches and motorboats, things that were all but unknown in other basins

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75. The melted walls were all but smooth to the touch, leaving virtually nothing to support him

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76. Worse yet, his hands were now slick with sweat as well as blood, making it all but impossible to hang on

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77. Twenty-five of the agents—all but Stenworth and Johnson—surrounded

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78. The dwarven mines had all but run dry

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79. The undead had victory all but in their grasp when the two hundred Boulder Lords came storming down the wall, sweeping thousands of the fiends to their deaths

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80. The music was extremely challenging, probably over the heads of all but the other musicians

81. his livelihood, and life had become all but intolerable

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82. We arrived in Minotia too late, its citizens had been all but overwhelmed

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83. them for news they all but ignored him

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84. She couldn’t speak, so the Sultan sent away all but the vizir, and asked her to speak freely

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85. Meanwhile the only apprentices the Keeper authorized were all but useless

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86. There was no answer to his call but the door was unlocked so he went in

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87. Desa says they aren't people at all but are really machines from the star YingolNeerie

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88. next to a small but perennial stream

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89. group was large enough to deter all but the most

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90. All but one of them returned his look with blank faces

91. "My member's all but invisible

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92. The houses on this lane had gardens, probably big enough to supply all but the staples, about like Yoonbarla

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93. Anon was all but ignored as he made his way to the trunk

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94. When they finally stopped, the infection was all but drained from Anon’s veins

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95. "They started moving away last week, all but one boulder of the starship

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96. The creatures were guardians of the Dead Tree, but for one such as Imorbis the beings were all but powerless

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97. He looked older than all but Kiethying of these wizards, but he was of some different race, not an Elf

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98. Imorbis was all but nonexistent

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99. that the small but nonetheless noisy wedding procession –

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100. doubt, yours, his movements were all but obscure to my eyes,