Example sentences of "[vb infin] but [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A question is an attention-focusing device , especially on things that we do not yet know but know that we do not know . |
| 2 | And what more could Miss Waters do but affirm that if one could not perform one 's Christian duty without being treated as a busybody then the parish had come to a sorry pass ? |
| 3 | But , watching this at a distance , there 's nothing I can do but spit and hiss . ) |
| 4 | There 's nothing he can do but hope because he ca n't put 30-year-old heads on young shoulders . |
| 5 | Failing miserably , she found herself sliding sideways , and there was nothing she could do but laugh as she hit the field quite hard and bike landed on top of her . |
| 6 | The tiny tracheae , which are strengthened with rings in their walls , do not flatten but shorten and expand like concertinas . |
| 7 | These birthmarks do not fade but mature and darken with age , with the relatively normal vessels of a juvenile mark undergoing degeneration with dilatation and stasis . |
| 8 | Amber is for ‘ caution ’ behaviour , which you do n't encourage but tolerate because your child is still learning and making mistakes : something like digging holes in the lawn with his spade or hurling her toys across the room in a moment of fury . |
| 9 | But she still could not help but stare and think about that crumpled dream on the table . |
| 10 | I am drawn to Cal 's guitar , and I finally can not help but ask if he will play a tune , something by Christy Moore . |
| 11 | When you look at , for example , the organisational structure of the thirty-two London Boroughs , you can not help but conclude that there are as many structures as there are Town Halls to fit around them . |
| 12 | Somehow she could not help but suspect that he would think it immoral to squeeze extra wages out of his stepfather , only to hoard them beneath the floorboards . |
| 13 | ‘ Given there are some 100,000 climbers in the UK and only 100 or so took part , I ca n't help but think that a tremendous message of indifference . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought you might like it , ’ he commented , and Fabia had to give her special attention to catkins , and to where lilac was about to break out of bud , because as her heart began to race she could n't help but think that Ven had intended to bring her with him to Petřín , even as he 'd casually tossed that invitation at her . |
| 15 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |
| 16 | Probably not , but one ca n't help but speculate that the popularity of the showband in the Republic might go some way to explain the somewhat over-earnest search for ‘ authenticity ’ exhibited by U2 . |
| 17 | Once can not help but speculate that the inventor of this launcher had little , or more likely no , experience of piloting an aeroplane . |
| 18 | I could n't help but laugh when she replied : ‘ Oh , do n't worry , I 'm making the best of a bad job ! ’ |
| 19 | But he could n't control it , for all his knowledge , and it would lift his hair into bristles so that he looked like Desperate Dan and she could n't help but laugh until his fragile ego wobbled and then he shouted and then she loved him more , more than when he was intact . |
| 20 | Still , one could not help but feel that with Last Supper Frank had sold himself short . |
| 21 | But I ca n't help but feel that her duplicity has contributed to the nation 's unrealistic belief that marriage should be perfect . |
| 22 | The increased spending on health and education is welcome in every way , although those who work in schools and hospitals can not help but feel that they will be paying for it themselves by being denied pay rises . |
| 23 | Yet we can not help but feel that perhaps the establishment should be just a little bit less obdurate when confronted by new ideas . |
| 24 | ‘ Besides , I ca n't help but feel that this time next year all these girls will probably be for someone else . |
| 25 | Then again , in a later speech , the president warmed to his theme : ‘ You can not help but feel that the great Pacific basin — with all its nations and all its potential for growth and development — that is the future . ’ |
| 26 | One can not help but feel that one of the reasons why Edberg was beaten in his opening singles — without in any way detracting from Nestor 's fine achievement — was that he had so little time for either his body or his tennis to adjust after the journey to another time zone — and surface — from Australia . |
| 27 | This remark she delivered with the immense complacency of the wise virgin ; Clara could not help but feel that having men in only when things went wrong was not as wildly eccentric as her mother supposed , but as she knew no other way , no other world , she could not be sure . |
| 28 | And because I fear that that is the position , I can not help but feel that before long we will have yet another attempt to amend Act seventeen , nineteen sixty three and that we will go round the circuit , the same circuit once again with I fear the same result . |
| 29 | Alix was not sufficiently numerate to be able to calculate the odds against such an apparently odd relationship , though she could not help but feel that its component , accidental parts were startlingly combined . |
| 30 | One can not help but feel that Antony marks the loss of an irretrievable innocence . |