Sentences with phrase «do anything but»

For some people, that's exciting, but speaking to another kind of enthusiast, the real fun part was a slalom course on the concrete at El Toro, a retired airfield where there were no speed limits and we were encouraged to do anything but crash the car.

This makes the car really stand out from the rest of the chargers on the road w / o having to do anything but spend the extra $ 1495.

The entertainment system includes a pull - down flat - panel LCD monitor that the kids can view easily from the middle or rear seats, a videocassette player mounted in the center console between the driver and front passenger, and a remote control that the kids can use from the back so Mom and Dad don't have to do anything but change the tapes.

That may be heartless, but it's no different (and far more substantive) than paying extra for a giant wing that doesn't do anything but rack up points on your insurance.

Mechanic didn't think it would do anything but filled up three times now and so far so good.

Haven't had to do anything but regular maint.

Technology - based personalization — the ones that build complex algorithms that automate new activities and questions based on quantitative data — do anything but cater to these roots of personalization.

«You don't have to do anything but have a rhetorical war.»

«The English Baccalaureate does not force anyone to do anything but it does reveal the extent to which in the last 13 years we have seen a huge drop in the numbers of students doing modern languages, and overall that the number of students who have got GCSEs in English, maths, a foreign language, science and a humanity is not what it should be.»

And, studies have found that measuring teacher quality on test scores can usually lead to inaccurate results — as well as doing little to help the kids, or do anything but collect data.

In K12 education, when things go bad, we don't do anything but make excuses and throw more money at it.

And I personally would not expect him or want him to do anything but what he thinks is right and would make a difference.»

You can't wag, you can't eat, you can't scratch, you can't do anything but freeze in place.

After that I couldn't do anything but work and work.»

She wants to take a job, but her right to work is up to her husband who doesn't think she needs to do anything but housework.

Unless it was so close to completion that they can not do anything but cut their losses by finishing it & releasing it, we probably won't ever see it.

The formula of not being able to fight back, of not being able to do anything but hide from the horrifying things that are trying to kill you is an effective one, though it does occasionally delve into repetition, which is a sure - fire way to kill fear.

Likewise, Laura Linney, as Lorraine Sullenberger, is relegated to tearfully cradling her telephone as she ogles her television, powerless to do anything but will her husband home safely.

This becomes a problem however because there can be way too many enemies grouped together at once and they can not do anything but stand there because they can't move.

The movie clears an incredibly low bar, but it clears it with such chipper enthusiasm that it's tough to do anything but shake your head and smile.

«For a while, after [Third Rock From the Sun] no one wanted to hire me to do anything but a TV show, and I didn't really want to do that again.

Bad isn't able to remains angry, but he's too soused to motivate himself to do anything but stay on the road.

However, as we stacked on the series, â $ ˜ not getting lostâ $ ™ would produce feelings of blockages like â $ ˜ can not do anything but thatâ $ ™ or â $ ˜ can not run awayâ $ ™, so more and more people felt dissatisfied with that.

Emily is too outspoken, too disinterested, too Emily to do anything but be herself.

Though it doesn't really do anything but convey depth, it looks nice.

However in this version of Sonic, you have a game that really fails to do anything but disappoint.

Kate Mara doesn't show up to earn her check, Paul Giamatti overdoes it in a bad way to earn both his and Kate's check and Jennifer Jason Leigh isn't allowed to do anything but earns a check anyway.

How could we do anything but?

Consider Ryuhei's days spent in Tokyo, wandering through construction sites, getting free meals with legions of other zombies in business suits either too ashamed to admit their situation or too conditioned by routine to do anything but enact their daily rituals, with or without the paycheck to justify it.

(The men are not supposed to do anything but be backwoods animals in the tradition of «Deliverance.»)

And then, over the next few hours, days, and even weeks, it becomes apparent that Glazer's film has embedded itself in you like a parasite, making it difficult to do anything but process, unpack and puzzle over «Under The Skin,» a film that seems to have penetrated every pore of you.

Staff ** Glover is remarkably consistent as the stonefaced new hire in a public - records office, who «would prefer not» to do anything but filing, and then not to do anything at all, even leave after he's fired.

As the only actor asked to do anything but the obvious, Jackson exudes some undeniable charisma and has a tendency, like method actors of yore, to posture a bit, retreat within and make the viewer follow him there.

Noah is afraid to do anything but work in his father's shop.

i'm not saying it will help or do anything but at least it's something.

The flawed cursor interface gives you little reason to do anything but swing at every ball — in fact, if you take a pitch, the announcers instantly chide you!

The Wonderful 101 is one of those titles that you can't do anything but admire.

If you want to change your life once and for all, then don't be like those single women that do not want to do anything but wait for a miracle.

Safety should be a priority and these sites don't try to do anything but collect money from upgrades or kick backs from shopping ads.

Turn your phone off and go to a movie with a friend, take a walk, do anything but press the send button on another text.

I was too stunned to do anything but fish around in my purse for a twenty.

The problem is that many of these dating networks are absolute trash and they don't do anything but take your money.

God is main concern and I like shoot pool riding fourwheelers and camping and I am disabled but not to the point of where I can't do anything but I do not like beating around the bush.

But creating a profile is not the beginning of the story but its end if you don't do anything but just wait for a lady writing you first.

Hello Beautiful how are you doing today I hope everything is ok with you I'm just trying to get to know you to have some fun I just got out of jail and I'm looking for someone to take control of me in the bedroom but I just want my cock out and I don't have to do anything but eat your pussy dry...

Instead of a monthly subscription fee you pay for credits, which you need to send messages or watch videos introductions or basically do anything but browse.

My goal is to get everything together before the Winter and cold weather sets in and I have zero motivation or energy left to do anything but bundle up and eat hearty soup.

Super easy to change it up a bit ifneeded with accessories, but even if I'm not in the mood to do anything but throw on clothes and run to Trader Joe's it's still fine.

I wouldn't go full crazy though and say that entire collections were pieces of geniusness, but there were many individual looks from so many different designers this year that I can not do anything but to admire and even crave.

Bottom line: None of these situations will do anything but hold you back.