Example sentences of "do [indef pn] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , he was looking down at her , and she could do nothing but speak the truth . |
| 2 | And what if he knew something they did n't and was desperate to tell them , but could do nothing but move a finger ? |
| 3 | He said the RSSPCC would unconditionally oppose the programme ‘ on the simple principle that this can do nothing except prolong the distress and damage of the children , ’ regardless of the rights or wrongs of the authorities ' handling of the case . |
| 4 | But there was always them as just wanted to come and do nothing and pick the money up and that 's what they had to sort out the firms . |
| 5 | But so far Sergeant Juron had done nothing except walk the Emperor along , swaying , in their wake . |
| 6 | Burton started a Welsh male voice choir — ‘ although at one time there were only two Welshmen in the camp ’ — and at one stage , up at Docking in Norfolk , he seems to have done everything but declare the place an independent colony . |
| 7 | But could n't could n't you do one that takes the competencies from the probationary work book and puts that down . |
| 8 | In no way could I ever have imagined that this poem could have done anything but rouse the Church to action . |
| 9 | I would n't do anything that took a long , long time before it showed a reward . |
| 10 | She decided to do nothing but to throw the ill-gotten soap and bath cube into the sea when she was quite alone . |
| 11 | At this stage there will be a decision to do nothing or pursue the issue . |
| 12 | If they turn all their power on Forteviot , we either have to do nothing or cross the river ourselves and give battle . |
| 13 | Erm but if somebody has had a gap for whatever reason , it is often the only method of actually covering it if you want to do something that involves the teachers ' superannuation scheme . |
| 14 | A sheen of cyan tattered to azure around him ; he had decided to do something but dropped the idea for some reason . |
| 15 | But once foundations are laid it is very , very difficult to do anything but modify a programme and the original structure always shows through . |
| 16 | She realized that the child was smiling straight at her but she was too tired to engage with her , too detached to make contact , too hidden to do anything but take a photograph and her fingers felt too weak even to do this . |
| 17 | Many pregnant teenagers delay making their pregnancy known until too many months have passed to do anything but have the baby . |
| 18 | The undergraduates of Magdalene used to say about their Master that he spent the morning doing nothing and spent the afternoon writing about what he had done in the morning . |
| 19 | What we do object to is in their cynical use on stretches of open road and motorways as a means of penalising motorists for doing something that causes no danger to anybody . |
| 20 | The issue for the court to decide is whether or not the constable is doing anything that constitutes a prima facie interference with the person 's liberty , person or property , as by detaining him , searching him or otherwise touching him , or constraining his behaviour in some other way . |
| 21 | Shaun got the impression that he had responsibility but I ca n't remember him doing anything except organise a few gigs . |
| 22 | However , the Botswana bushmen delegation at the Namibia meeting was described by Survival International as a hand-picked group who did nothing but sing the praises of their government . |
| 23 | With regard to the second recommendation , the FAA merely said that it might not be feasible and , in the event , they did nothing but give the matter consideration ! |
| 24 | The Turks cautiously did nothing except invite the powers to maintain the Berlin settlement . |
| 25 | The occupation did nothing except to fuel the sense of outrage the Italians felt about their treatment at the hands of the older powers . |
| 26 | So the Resistance-trained amateurs were gradually shunted to filing jobs or forgotten overseas stations where they needed do nothing but show an invisible flag and curl a lip at the way the CIA did the real work . |
| 27 | You remember we had , on the Ormskirk one we did one that had a study area on it ? |
| 28 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 29 | The bombers ‘ must surely know this does nothing but cast a terrible scar on all they stand for . ’ |