Example sentences of "help but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple , however , seem confident that the problem is behind them and anyone with a love of the distance can not help but hope they are right , particularly in Olympic year . |
| 2 | When you look around , you can not help but ask him : Why bother ? |
| 3 | Presumably , he catches the scent of a bitch in season on the wind and ca n't help but follow it . |
| 4 | You may tell me that your personal life is not my concern and that it is not for me to comment — and you would be justified however , I can not help but make it my concern because I have your future very much at heart . |
| 5 | ‘ People here ca n't help but think it must have been a local person , ’ said young mother Janeen Armstrong . |
| 6 | I was thrilled that someone as important as the Archbishop of Canterbury had taken the time to call me , although I could n't help but think it odd that an Archbishop was now leaving messages on the same answering machine as my mum . |
| 7 | I think sometimes I ca n't help but think it 's how they made him in a way , you know , like I , you , sometimes your , I think you should sit down and play with something , but he wo n't sit quiet and amuse himself |
| 8 | Maggie could n't help but think she was in the middle of a death trap . |
| 9 | I could n't help but think he wanted it to be a theme park . |
| 10 | As such places went it was a clean , respectably furnished room , but it was a ‘ transient ’ all the same and , looking at him , she could not help but think he looked out of place there . |
| 11 | In a world where uniformity is important , being small and having a deformity , well , you ca n't help but feel it . |
| 12 | The political crisis which vastly increased its recruitment could not help but give it an unusual character . |
| 13 | Raymond is a a man and he ca n't help but give it . ’ |
| 14 | A profane woman , on whom he had committed profane acts ; yet he could not help but see her with the child at her breast as holy . |
| 15 | The Boultings could n't help but forgive him . |
| 16 | he was not ordinary , and Jenny could not help but notice him . |
| 17 | Out of interest I could n't help but notice you book erm |
| 18 | We could n't help but notice he had almost as much trouble saying the word ‘ marriage ’ at the COSE announcement at Uniforum as the word ‘ Motif . ’ |
| 19 | Ok , Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet Erm the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 20 | The best were patronizing ; the worst could not help but insult him . |
| 21 | Audiences can not help but cheer him on . |
| 22 | Ali returns to the kitchen , still barefoot from his prayers , moving so quietly I ca n't help but believe he 's trying not to disturb so much as the dust beneath his feet . |