Sandy could do nothing but ________ to his teacher that he was wrong.
句意:桑迪除了向他的老师承认错误以外别无选择。句中的 but不是连词“但是”,而是介词“除……之外”,当前面有实义动词do的 不同形式,也就是do, does, did, done时,后面用but do sth.;否则,则要用but to do sth.结构。这句话中的“do”为实义动词,因此but后要用动词原形。