Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb mod] do [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will take a while , I 'm afraid , but I 'll do everything I can to persuade the family that they should meet you . ’ |
| 2 | But I shall do nothing to aid them . |
| 3 | I know I could n't begin to give you the kind of life you 'd have with Dunbar , but I 'd do everything in my power to make you happy . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I know , but I must do something more creative . |
| 5 | I 'm not keen but I must do something . " |
| 6 | But you must do nothing . |
| 7 | ‘ But you must do something , you ca n't just take it . ’ |
| 8 | That what happens after the first ten minutes , you have to go and do something else , then what happens , you physically get up and do , but you will do something else . |
| 9 | ‘ The past is the past , and you can do nothing about it , but you can do something about the future , and I am very optimistic . |
| 10 | but she 'd do anything for you , if you say like midnight one night you got her out of bed and come down . |
| 11 | But she could do nothing about it . |
| 12 | But she could do nothing , while Sylvie 's presence drew everyone like a charm . |
| 13 | She knew Guy could feel the sudden acceleration of her pulse , but she could do nothing to stop the traitorous throbbing . |
| 14 | But she could do nothing about it ; she was frozen , inside and out . |
| 15 | Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him . |
| 16 | There have been building delays due to engineering problems , but we shall do everything we can to help these people . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But we must do something . ’ |
| 18 | We ca n't get rid of the horror and the fears , but we can do something to increase our competence in dealing with it and facing it , which I think is a healthier way than freezing , flying away from it , or fighting it . |
| 19 | But we could do nothing with that English nose of yours . |
| 20 | I called my stepfather , who tried to help her , but we could do nothing . |
| 21 | Well , this is the thing , we have a caretaker but er fo for his services , but I 've been at the council and I have got nowhere , I have from the corporation , there 's an awful lot of people complaining but they 'll do nothing about it ! |
| 22 | ‘ But they 'll do anything to shock their parents , these little momzers . |
| 23 | Possibly the twenties costumes would n't be too kind to Therese , but they 'd do something about that when the time came . |
| 24 | Sherlock Holmes is a very clever detective , but he can do nothing about the weather . |
| 25 | It was a different story after the break with the Witham defence under pressure throughout with Banks saving a penalty , but he could do nothing when a free kick by McCarthy took a deflection on its way into the net . |
| 26 | But it might do something . |
| 27 | Love wo n't change the history of the world ( that nonsense about Cleopatra 's nose is strictly for sentimentalists ) , but it will do something much more important : teach us to stand up to history , to ignore its chin-out strut . |