Example sentences of "not help [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major Tzann could not help but pick up on the missing contriteness . |
| 2 | But she still could not help but stare and think about that crumpled dream on the table . |
| 3 | You may tell me that your personal life is not my concern and that it is not for me to comment — and you would be justified however , I can not help but make it my concern because I have your future very much at heart . |
| 4 | You can use drama without specifically teaching about dramatic forms ( although in using drama as a learning medium , you can not help but make use of dramatic forms ) , but you ca n't effectively teach anything about the nature of dramatic forms without some sort of content . |
| 5 | It is amazing that in this age of guitar exotica , courtesy of PRS , Valley Arts and so on , most players can not help but become romantic and misty-eyed about an old Strat — even one that was made in Japan only a month or so ago . |
| 6 | Indeed , the Soviet press supported a query by the Indian Foreign Minister , N. Rao , in May 1981 about whether to permit Pakistan to remain in the Non-Aligned Movement with the assertion that ‘ Islamabad 's policy of all possible military rapprochement with Washington and the huge shipments of American arms that have been promised can not help but raise legitimate doubts among many member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement as to whether Pakistan is legally entitled to remain in their ranks ’ . |
| 7 | Still , Laguna Chica itself was so beautiful in its tranquillity that my heart could not help but lift . |
| 8 | Moreover , as Sperber and Wilson ( 1986 ) have shown , all stylistic choices , whether they be choices among linguistically determined possibilities or decisions about degrees of explicitness , are governed by the aim of optimising relevance , and can not help but reveal the speaker 's assumptions about the hearer 's contextual resources and processing abilities.7 Consider the difference between [ 18a ] and [ 18b ] : There is no difference in import . |
| 9 | One can not help but reflect on how much all of this emerging artistry stems back to the exhibitions of Tom Van Sant 's work in the USA and UK during 1976 . |
| 10 | She lost all awareness of time and place , sinking into a realm of the senses where she could not help but bring her hand up to run her fingers into his hair to hold his mouth to hers as she returned his kiss . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One chilling line read , ‘ The Rushdie affair can not help but set back hopes for an early release for the western hostages in Lebanon . ’ |
| 13 | The trouble with this manoeuvre is that it can not help but demote poetry . |
| 14 | When you look around , you can not help but ask him : Why bother ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I could not help but remember myself , another pretty fair-haired boy , who also wanted his own way at that age , and how I wound Uncle Bill 's heart round my little finger and was perhaps responsible for the tragedy caused by a savagely jealous dog . |
| 17 | As real estate asset , working accommodation and corporate statement , Porters South can not help but boost Fitch-RS 's fortunes . |
| 18 | ‘ Forgive me , Lady Theodosia , but I could not help but overhear something of what has transpired in this room . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We are nearly home , ’ said Finn and Melanie suddenly could not help but sob . |
| 20 | I can not help but marvel over the miracle of cordless technology when perched 40ft high , drilling through roof rafters with a cordless tool , not having to worry about tripping over the cable or whether it 's going to rain . |
| 21 | Herod could not help but respect John , even as he picked on him . |
| 22 | And we can not help but contrast the generous appreciation of Dryden by Eliot , who might have been expected to be temperamentally less in tune with him . |
| 23 | Such a blueprint could not help but postpone indefinitely important questions facing the integrative bodies already in existence . |
| 24 | The couple , however , seem confident that the problem is behind them and anyone with a love of the distance can not help but hope they are right , particularly in Olympic year . |
| 25 | Once can not help but speculate that the inventor of this launcher had little , or more likely no , experience of piloting an aeroplane . |
| 26 | The chairmen could not help but note , for example , that on tariff policy the headquarters staff were less expert than the former regulatory body , the Electricity Commissioners . |
| 27 | The political crisis which vastly increased its recruitment could not help but give it an unusual character . |
| 28 | So even without intending to the nurse could not help but give out signals Chesarynth could read : the heavier exhalation , the pale tightness round the lips . |
| 29 | Still , one could not help but feel that with Last Supper Frank had sold himself short . |
| 30 | One can not help but feel apprehensive that every step forward will have to be reversed on the return journey when energy is flagging . |