Example sentences of "not help [conj] [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she still could not help but stare and think about that crumpled dream on the table . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Once can not help but speculate that the inventor of this launcher had little , or more likely no , experience of piloting an aeroplane . |
| 5 | Still , one could not help but feel that with Last Supper Frank had sold himself short . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yet we can not help but feel that perhaps the establishment should be just a little bit less obdurate when confronted by new ideas . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One can not help but feel that Antony marks the loss of an irretrievable innocence . |
| 14 | One can not help but wonder whether these taboos originally had another meaning . |
| 15 | At the same time , I can not help but wonder whether his performance would have sounded very different had it been recorded somewhat earlier in his career ? |
| 16 | But Arnold seems unaware of the strain that Jellett must have borne specifically as a woman artist , and one can not help but wonder if this contributed to her early death . |
| 17 | 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 . |