Example sentences of "do [indef pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he had found the way , it was after midnight , the clock had chimed ages ago , and Shelley could do nothing but walk up the hill to go home to bed . |
| 2 | She could do nothing but batten down the conversational hatches and wait until the storm blew itself out . |
| 3 | I could do nothing but watch . |
| 4 | The Empire 's army was so weakened by the loss of its forces that Sigismund could do nothing but watch and wait while the Orc hordes devastated the surrounding lands . |
| 5 | The Critiques can do nothing but proliferate extravagantly into the writing of a perpetual process of deferral . |
| 6 | She had said that , in the circumstances and since he could do nothing but mumble , she would probably kill herself . |
| 7 | As it was , he was looking down at her , and she could do nothing but speak the truth . |
| 8 | I was so bemused that at first I could do nothing but stare . |
| 9 | Ruth felt as if she could do nothing but stare . |
| 10 | The traders who trade around it can do nothing but benefit from the new multi-storey car park with 1,600 spaces . |
| 11 | She nodded , because for shame she could do nothing but nod , and he sat down at her table . |
| 12 | I protested , but only weakly ; I was hysterical , and , I suppose , rather excited too : even when he had me down on the floor , jammed in an uncomfortable position with my head stuck between the pedestal of the wash basin and a slimy floor cloth someone had left lying against the wall , I could still do nothing but laugh . |
| 13 | This failure to reach a public consensus can do nothing but damage for the profession . |
| 14 | And what if he knew something they did n't and was desperate to tell them , but could do nothing but move a finger ? |
| 15 | Two strictly rational players , each of whom assumes that the other is strictly rational , can do nothing but defect if they both know how many rounds the game is destined to run . |
| 16 | The door closed after them and Harriet could do nothing but glare at it impotently . |
| 17 | ‘ They 'll get on each other 's nerves , ’ she said to herself , ‘ they 'll do nothing but fight . |
| 18 | And if you read the report , you can do nothing but agree . |
| 19 | The Goblins , unused to the sea and ignorant of navigation , could do nothing but ride out the storm . |
| 20 | Having waited so long to hear from the ‘ one man ’ who knew what had happened , when he appeared they could do nothing but gaze on him ; having made him into a celluloid star , there was no reason at this point to spoil it , and make him real . |
| 21 | It appeared to me that the quest for publicity could do nothing but harm , so long as we were certain , as indeed we made sure , that all the disabled knew of the facility and used it if they so desired . |
| 22 | To summarise , it would appear that rugby in Ulster is becoming more and more insular which can do nothing but harm in the development of the game here . |
| 23 | Hahnemann felt that the ‘ single dose and wait ’ philosophy left too long a period of inaction and the speed of cure often too slow as the practitioner could do nothing but wait for the remedy to complete its ' curative curve . |
| 24 | He could do nothing but wait while the procedure which he had initiated for excommunicating the king if he refused to restore his rights and revenues crawled towards its conclusion . |
| 25 | And erm we were l we were stuck in the villa , right up in the mountains er , could do nothing but play cards all day and scrabble and erm all these stupid board games . |
| 26 | No industry that I know would ever have publicly exposed such a failure and their frankness in so doing should do nothing but increase public confidence in the honesty and integrity of those concerned and also in their total commitment to the safe and efficient operation of the station . |
| 27 | So vehement sometimes was this resentment that he could do nothing but believe it . |
| 28 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 29 | MANY thanks for the excellent series of articles on the proposed Sports Museum they put the situation accurately and can do nothing but help our cause . |
| 30 | The management could do nothing but smile at the incident . |