Example sentences of "nothing [subord] [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 | They also argue that the waste of resources associated with the ex post coordination of supply and demand through markets is as nothing when set against the loss of production associated with the weak incentives of a planned economy and when compared to the inefficiency , bungling and corruption of every economic planning bureaucracy yet devised . |
| 14 | Indeed I think that the the the present secretary of state for whom I have great respect and regard , I think he would be very well advised to think again , because I think that the temporary derision that he would meet in the House of Commons would be nothing as compared with the the er the wounding that he will sustain later if and when things go wrong with these proposals . |