Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [modal v] n't [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but I ca n't bring it to mind , it wo n't come to the front as it were . |
| 2 | but I ca n't drink it all the time |
| 3 | ‘ I can stick it for myself , but I ca n't bear it for you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I ca n't bear it . |
| 6 | Hell , everybody I know 's done something like that at some time or another but that does n't make them a murderer ; I think McDunn 's crazy but I ca n't tell him that because , if he 's wrong about that and I 'm wrong about it being something to do with those guys who died in the Lake District a few years ago , then there 's only one suspect left and that 's me . |
| 7 | It 's a nice reason but I ca n't tell you now . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry , but I ca n't tell you anything else … you 'll have to go now . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But I ca n't tell you anything . |
| 10 | Well , that was fair enough , and , twisting her fine lace handkerchief in her hands , she had said steadily , ‘ Yes , I 'll see him , but I ca n't tell you what my answer will be . |
| 11 | But I ca n't tell you what it felt like , first of all having cancer , secondly trying to talk about it , and being continually asked , ‘ Well , how are you Jo ? ’ and you 'd see their eyes glaze over and they 'd think , ‘ Christ , I hope she 's not going to tell me ! ’ |
| 12 | Yes , I know that Wolverhampton won , but I ca n't tell you the actual score . |
| 13 | But I ca n't wear it |
| 14 | But I ca n't offer you anything , the situation is so grave now in Italy . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I hear these fairytales , but I ca n't swallow them . |
| 16 | I have money but I ca n't control it : Fielding keeps supplying me with more . |
| 17 | I try and get it out with my fingers , but I ca n't reach it so I pour it into another bowl and put it on the floor for Satan to drink . |
| 18 | Neighbour Ernie Wise said : ‘ My boat would come in handy — but I ca n't reach it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I was hoping someone would come , but I ca n't blame them for not waiting all this time . |
| 20 | certainly I think er we 'd be looking perhaps for a minimum of er er of one mile but I ca n't advise you on any level of agreement as to as to what any definition of it . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've seen that boat somewhere , but I ca n't place it . |
| 22 | ‘ But I ca n't picture him any other way than the little boy he was on that last day I saw him . ’ |
| 23 | But I ca n't do it — all I can think about is Marie 's face . |
| 24 | I 'm crying a bit as I try and stick the pieces together , but I ca n't do it so I just leave them on the floor and sit back in the chair . |
| 25 | John Culshaw tells of your listening to de Sabata 's recording of Tosca and saying , ‘ No , he 's right but I ca n't do it . |
| 26 | ‘ Marjorie , I 've got to talk to you about this business , but I ca n't do it now . |
| 27 | They 're telling me to go on the stage and act , but I ca n't do it , it 's the one thing Mum and Dad are dead set against . ’ |
| 28 | But I ca n't do it on my own . |
| 29 | But erm what I am going to do but I ca n't do it until the spring erm at least until erm has cut the grass for the first time |
| 30 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |