Example sentences of "[verb] it but [pron] [modal v] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 2 | I asked him how he 'd done it but he would n't tell me . |
| 3 | The tale was distressing to Ayling and she knew she ought to have curtailed it but she could not resist going on . |
| 4 | Oh yes and that 's those only that would do it but you would n't get the ordinary man taking any he would just be on his rounds . |
| 5 | I wish I had n't I wish I had n't started feeding it but I ca n't I ca n't stop now it 's not |
| 6 | I tried to imitate it but I could n't do it . |
| 7 | It contained the Knole sofa on which St Agatha had reclined in West Kensington ( too large for Laura 's tiny flat ) , several lowering pieces of reproduction Jacobean furniture donated by Kitty ( 'Your father loved it but I ca n't bear it , it 's so threatening ’ ) , hundreds of books on shelves made by Peter out of bricks and planks and the unmistakable overlying detritus of family life . |
| 8 | Some would like to forget it but it wo n't go away . |
| 9 | I mean I would put that under group work and social skills and no er the way I would approach it but it may not apply . |
| 10 | I 've asked 'em to sell me the land so I can develop it but they wo n't see sense . |
| 11 | may have wanted it but she would n't have done it . |
| 12 | you can lose it but you ca n't guess |
| 13 | I know that I have to believe in myself to overcome it but I ca n't when I 'm destroying myself . |
| 14 | It can probe it but it can not reconstruct it . |
| 15 | Cos , we 've heard her say it but I ca n't think how she can be . |