Example sentences of "[indef pn] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well nothing but d' ya know what I mean it 's sort of . |
| 2 | Erm we 'll do a fairly simple one and then use the same one but make it a little bit more complicated . |
| 3 | You can get a like , a similar one to this , perhaps not as good as this one but buy it for twenty quid nearly . |
| 4 | As you know , Richard has done nothing but advise me that I must . |
| 5 | Since about 1985 , Hall has done nothing but tell us how great the Tories are : how they 've tapped the mood of the nation , set the agenda , turned us all into thrusting entrepreneurs and free-marketeers . |
| 6 | He said hundreds of thousands of jobs and lives had been destroyed while the Premier had done nothing but watch it happen . |
| 7 | The general public seem to think we do nothing but skin them . |
| 8 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 9 | So vehement sometimes was this resentment that he could do nothing but believe it . |
| 10 | She does nothing but bait you . ’ |
| 11 | Well she said he he 's done nothing but bully them . |
| 12 | So she said quite right , she said he 's done nothing but bully you lot ever since you 've been children ! |
| 13 | then she said do you know these last six months we do nothing but argue she said we 've never argued so much ! |
| 14 | And I 've done nothing but lose you six good men . ’ |
| 15 | and then he charged it and er she if , she know , she could n't do anything but pay him |
| 16 | It is precisely because I am so in favour of family planning — of women ( and men ) planning their own families — that I am so supicious of any population policy that attempts to do anything but help them have the number of children they think is best for them . |
| 17 | It is precisely because I am so in favour of family planning — of women ( and men ) planning their own families — that I am so supicious of any population policy that attempts to do anything but help them have the number of children they think is best for them . |