Example sentences of "[pron] but [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frank did nothing but sit in the house for two days silent and with tears . |
| 2 | The traders who trade around it can do nothing but benefit from the new multi-storey car park with 1,600 spaces . |
| 3 | By the time he had found the way , it was after midnight , the clock had chimed ages ago , and Shelley could do nothing but walk up the hill to go home to bed . |
| 4 | This failure to reach a public consensus can do nothing but damage for the profession . |
| 5 | ‘ I have positively done nothing but dream of the System of no Property every step of the Way since I left you , ’ he wrote back to Oxford on 13 July . |
| 6 | It 's bone-crackingly cold in the winter , and it does nothing but rain for the rest of the year . |
| 7 | To summarise , it would appear that rugby in Ulster is becoming more and more insular which can do nothing but harm in the development of the game here . |
| 8 | Since well before Christmas I have done nothing but work on the Tate catalogue . |
| 9 | She 's done nothing but play for the last two years . |
| 10 | I 've done nothing but deal with the Briant project for days , it seems to me ! |
| 11 | Hahnemann felt that the ‘ single dose and wait ’ philosophy left too long a period of inaction and the speed of cure often too slow as the practitioner could do nothing but wait for the remedy to complete its ' curative curve . |
| 12 | The management could do nothing but smile at the incident . |
| 13 | There was no time or energy for anyone to do anything but get through the long gruelling hours and fall into bed , usually after midnight and on the night before the opening , at three in the morning . |