Example sentences of "could do nothing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third , who could do nothing well , who shivered plates and tangled her spinning , who curdled milk , could not get butter to come , nor set a fire so that smoke did not pour into the room , a useless , hopeless , dreaming daughter , to whom her mother would often say that she should try to fend for herself in the wild wood , and then she would know the value of listening to advice , and of doing things properly . |
| 2 | But nine minutes later , Mimms could do nothing when Walters broke the deadlock . |
| 3 | No further conversation was opened , no invitation to supper was proffered , and so Dorothea could do nothing else but leave for home . |
| 4 | RCA , in particular , using a non-laser disc system , found that linear movies on disc were simply not sufficiently attractive to consumers to encourage them to buy hardware systems that could do nothing else than playback such movies . |
| 5 | On the contrary , he could do nothing else without playing into the hands of those plotting his downfall and a return to a form of Coalition . |
| 6 | ‘ Come in , ’ she invited , for she could do nothing else . |
| 7 | The way she saw it , she could do nothing else , but inwardly she was boiling with fury . |
| 8 | That , she knew full well , she could do nothing about , although she disapproved of the whole set-up . |
| 9 | We could do nothing further . |