Example sentences of "[vb pp] [indef pn] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt I had forgotten something but could not remember what . |
| 2 | ‘ Unfortunately , in the five years I have been here Leeds have not won anything but we will . ’ |
| 3 | I have done nothing but in care of thee , |
| 4 | ‘ She has done nothing but snarl since she arrived last Wednesday . ’ |
| 5 | I 've done nothing but deal with the Briant project for days , it seems to me ! |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | I 've done nothing but read thrillers since the exams , apart from watching videos and playing patience to kill time . |
| 8 | Since about 1985 , Hall has done nothing but tell us how great the Tories are : how they 've tapped the mood of the nation , set the agenda , turned us all into thrusting entrepreneurs and free-marketeers . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've done nothing but itch since I got mine . ’ |
| 10 | He said hundreds of thousands of jobs and lives had been destroyed while the Premier had done nothing but watch it happen . |
| 11 | It had done nothing but distract everybody . |
| 12 | As you know , Richard has done nothing but advise me that I must . |
| 13 | In the Commons debate which followed the ministerial announcement , there were some MPs who welcomed the demise of ‘ a nonsensical curriculum development body that has done nothing but damage education over the years ’ . |
| 14 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 15 | Since well before Christmas I have done nothing but work on the Tate catalogue . |
| 16 | And in the last hundred years you 've done nothing but rob , fight , and murder ! |
| 17 | She 'd done nothing but lie back , and allow Kattina to make love to her . |
| 18 | And you 've done nothing but snap and shout at me ever since we came on board . ’ |
| 19 | She 'd done nothing but run from Dane from the very start ; even now , when she was here in Sheffield with him , she was still running , still afraid of the heartache she must surely face if she allowed the relationship to deepen . |
| 20 | She 's done nothing but play for the last two years . |
| 21 | For the previous six weeks we had done nothing but make preparations ; buying the tickets , finding tenants for the house , and , hardest of all , putting the house in a fit state to receive tenants ! |
| 22 | I 've done nothing but change my plans because of what happened then , and do n't you ever forget it . ’ |
| 23 | I have done nothing but sleep too much , eat too much , and sit in the sun and bake ! ’ |
| 24 | You 've done nothing but hit on me since the day — ’ |
| 25 | Yesterday , when she and Celeste had watched the Portuguese Grand Prix together , the model had done nothing but drool . |
| 26 | And I 've done nothing but lose you six good men . ’ |
| 27 | He 's done nothing but scratch this morning though . |
| 28 | She 's done nothing but wee in my kitchen and now she 's in that corner ! |
| 29 | So she said quite right , she said he 's done nothing but bully you lot ever since you 've been children ! |
| 30 | Well she said he he 's done nothing but bully them . |