BEFORE I could do anything, however, the cafe owner popped out from behind the counter.
If it looks unbeatable, they will do anything, however bizarre, to try to discombobulate declarer.
Before it could do anything, however, Compaq had to "reverse engineer" technology that was copyrighted by IBM.
To do anything, however, Kadima will have to confront a coalition comprised of a large religious bloc — a bloc deeply invested in enshrining the status quo.
The word toad-eater, later conveniently shortened to toady, came to mean a person who would do anything, however bizarre or ghastly, that superiors required him to do.
That particularism is threatening to tear the United States apart as rival tribes lose the ability to do anything, however trivial, together.
"They block up dry riverbeds and destroy mountainsides but nobody does anything, however much we complain," says environmentalist Juan Antonio Martínez, surveying the scarred hills at Albuñol.
I doubt that this is what the banks are actually setting out to achieve for they have a proven capacity to do anything, however underhand, to increase their profits.
Anybody who did anything, however indirectly, that contributed to saddling the country with health-care reform explicitly modeled on Romney's policies in Massachusetts, which in turn were based on a 1992 proposal from the Heritage Foundation, is far too left wing to be a credible G.O.P. candidate for President.
If you actually want to do anything, however, you're straight back to using the stylus.
