Example sentences of "do [indef pn] else [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe there are cases when you can do nothing else than support the . |
| 2 | ‘ The boy has viral meningitis and will be out for at least two months , during which he will do nothing else but rest . |
| 3 | No further conversation was opened , no invitation to supper was proffered , and so Dorothea could do nothing else but leave for home . |
| 4 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |
| 5 | On the way the child seemed to do nothing else but take a great deal of delight in wetting me thoroughly . |
| 6 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 7 | Underneath all that razzmatazz , the girls sneaked aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach or into his room in Guaruja , there was a man of some sensitivity who felt that both fame and sexual prowess had somehow been thrust upon him ; I think he found both hard to resist , and it must be acknowledged that a chauvinistic British press , his looks , his celebrity and his companions made it hard for him to do anything else than accept the role thrust upon him . |
| 8 | Of course some of them like doing one job more than others ; I 've got one gardener who likes doing nothing else but cutting grass — well , he 's quite welcome to do that because the rest of us are not fussy . |
| 9 | so I then find myself doing nothing else but walking around so I go and ask |
| 10 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 11 | It 's been difficult in = thing that you had to go home at night and keep watering like , your not doing anything else but watering , watering |
| 12 | I had no idea of doing anything else but study there for the first three years after school , for which my hardworking and frugal parents had saved enough money . |
| 13 | You know that er French pol There was er factories away out at that just er that did nothing else but take chair work you know . |
| 14 | As Jean points out : ‘ When I grew up , my Mum did nothing else but cook our food ; her contemporaries did n't work . |
| 15 | The world is now full of literary critics , some held to be important , who do nothing else but write literary criticism , and they all work in universities . |