Example sentences of "[vb infin] nothing [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The traders who trade around it can do nothing but benefit from the new multi-storey car park with 1,600 spaces . |
| 3 | This failure to reach a public consensus can do nothing but damage for the profession . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The management could do nothing but smile at the incident . |