(1) There was nothing to do but wait
(2) I would have liked to have had a longer deal but the get out clauses were prohibitive.
(3) You can't but admire her
(4) In Texas, we were never anything but poor
(5) It never rains but it pours.
(6) It's going to be a long road, but shinty has no alternative but to keep right on to the end.
(7) This is one principle, but it is not the only one
(8) He did it quickly but well
(9) A popular but, in my opinion, an over-rated book
(10) They had no alternative but to follow
(11) If we had but known this
(12) This is what I love about science: anybody but anybody can become involved at least in trying to understand what it is saying!
(13) She also said that she would have no alternative but to contact my family if I didn't seek help.
(14) Supply currently exceeds demand in all but the most rural areas
(15) Aden was a year older than herself and she never saw him as anything else but her goofy nerd friend.
(16) It was deserted and I didn't see a soul, but I did stumble across a bunch of Red Deer in a meadow.
(17) What choice did the little fellow have but to respond positively to such instruction?
(19) In an important article in April 22 Haaretz Gideon Levy points out but a few cases within the year illustrating that movement equals death.
(20) Prices weren't great but were above their lowest