Example sentences of "[indef pn] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His target was ‘ the spate of mean building all over the country that is shrivelling up the Old England — mean and perky little houses that surely none but mean and perky little souls should inhabit with satisfaction ’ ( p. 15 ) . |
| 2 | She said nothing but looked at him . |
| 3 | Tessel said nothing but looked down at them with contempt . |
| 4 | Constance said nothing but walked back into the kitchen , where she lifted the lid off the soup and stood staring at it . |
| 5 | They said nothing but listened to the chatter in the restaurant , the clatter of cutlery and tinging of glass . |
| 6 | Memet said nothing but waited , all unawares , for her to continue misleading him . |
| 7 | Similarly , if you are spending money on advertising and your competitors spend nothing but cut their prices substantially , you are likely to suffer . |
| 8 | It was for nothing but to counter the parallel sky , and I found it mystical in its impracticality . |
| 9 | Mr James remembers her well , she was a sweet woman , all good nature , not a thought in her head , who asked for nothing but to love and cherish ( her husband had been spectacularly unfaithful to her , even for Rome — it runs in that family ) . |
| 10 | She said nothing but put out her hand and took the envelope . |
| 11 | Zborowski said nothing but went into his room and changed into worn summer clothes and came out carrying his only winter suit parcelled up to take to the pawnbroker . |
| 12 | She said nothing but went out and straight upstairs to her room . |
| 13 | Tavalouze said nothing but strode ahead of Lucien , his worn sandals slapping loudly against his feet and the marble flags of the corridor . |
| 14 | Creggan said nothing but stared over the grey rolling sea that had given the eagle whom he loved most in the world her name . |
| 15 | Nothing but eat and sleep . ’ |
| 16 | Or you can do absolutely nothing but lie in the sun in the garden and tan . |
| 17 | If I want nothing but to prepare the best Chinese meal I can manage then I should just follow John 's instructions . |
| 18 | Well nothing but d' ya know what I mean it 's sort of . |
| 19 | He should fear nothing but put his hopes in the sender who wished him well . |
| 20 | Forty-eight hours from now , she thought , staring at her pale reflection in the mirror , Anne Hammond would have been given the miracle of the chance of a new lease of life , while her own future seemed to stretch emptily ahead with nothing but work to fill it . |
| 21 | Punch said nothing but slid at once from the room . |
| 22 | She decided to do nothing but to throw the ill-gotten soap and bath cube into the sea when she was quite alone . |
| 23 | Brick suburbs gave way to big wooden houses , then single-storey houses which became more and more isolated until there was nothing but grizzled , frozen marsh . |
| 24 | As one who has never thought that we have got much benefit from the European Community , I say that the right hon. Gentleman is following the path of his predecessor , which is , ’ Negotiate nothing but accept everything . ’ |
| 25 | But now , like the others , Terry said nothing but stood there in his tracksuit waiting to slide hissingly across the floor once more . |
| 26 | He himself ate nothing but stood beaming in the middle of the room , his whisky glass clutched in his hand . |
| 27 | what , but , it 's about the Co-Op , I went to the Co-Op in me dream , nothing but have on , and I was getting some of them what must have been a monthly thing |
| 28 | IRA bombs in Reading and here on the Banbury to Marylebone main line fortunately hurt no-one but caused widespread delays for commuters . |
| 29 | Martin Grant started to say something but received a jab in the stomach , from the night stick . |
| 30 | The careful diplomacy with which this point has been made was undermined when the New York Times reported an off-the-record comment at the Brussels meeting suggesting that Mr Clinton ‘ feels the compulsion to do something but does not actually want to get involved . ’ |