21.   There was nothing to do but figure out ways to work around the stuck antenna.

22.   There is little to do but check the lists for who is headed abroad, walk in circles and while away the time strategizing about how to get out.

23.   There was nothing to do but physical labor, and no hope that it would ever end.

24.   There was nothing to do but wait and worry.

25.   What else can they do but roar and rant?

26.   What he recalled were not the deals done but rather the ones Duva put on hold for a few hours or until the next morning.

27.   What could she do but sit and listen?

28.   With balmy weather for millennium after millennium, the thinking went, plants and animals had nothing to do but speciate.

29.   Who could have done it but a large, magical marine animal?

30.   Yet those are the two people he disillusioned most with his disappearance last week, not so much for what he did but how.

v. + but >>共 803
do 1.90%
know 1.85%
have 1.50%
go 1.50%
lose 1.40%
take 1.30%
leave 1.30%
report 1.05%
see 0.95%
come 0.90%
do + p. >>共 108
in 37.04%
on 13.20%
at 8.23%
about 7.74%
by 3.45%
as 3.43%
before 3.41%
after 2.31%
during 2.29%
against 2.12%
but 0.18%
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