Example sentences of "[prep] it but [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge . |
| 2 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note . |
| 3 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note |
| 4 | It , really and truthfully , like the Headway do plenty of functions and the rest of it but you can do a better job than Headway . |
| 5 | There are sort of costs in that respect that that come out of this erm business report er and on the late sides erm we would actually support the motion that 's been moved by er Charles and Jane but there is a policy of response and that does n't mean to say that they will accept all of it but there may be some good elements er er within it but we need to actually refer it . |
| 6 | Yeah , well I I tried to get rid of it but it would n't go . |
| 7 | ‘ That is one part of it but it can be very depressing if you lose out , like in December . ’ |
| 8 | Does n't no , but the point if that was being contemplated and today we get away with it but we would n't get away with it tomorrow or Thursday . |
| 9 | Er that they are changing a whole range o of non-economic variables which allow the peasant the world to see the world does n't have to be like this we can actually question the landlord and not only can we get away with it but we can get something out of it . |
| 10 | You try to come to terms with it but you ca n't . |
| 11 | No I ca n't I , I heave with it but I ca n't get nowt up . |
| 12 | If we look at them carefully we see a faint band in it but we ca n't count the bands this way , we can see them much better with X- rays . |
| 13 | Well this this curve here 's got s steps in it but it wo n't |
| 14 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |
| 15 | Well he was in it but he wo n't go back . |
| 16 | You ca n't really dance to it but you can stomp to it . |
| 17 | I du n no I 'd I 'd probably listen to it but I 'd I 've never gone out and bought any of them . |
| 18 | I would not pander to it but she must have something to make her life special . ’ |
| 19 | He threw a rock down it but you could not hear it strike the bottom … . |
| 20 | And there 's tear stains on it but I 'll put up with that . |
| 21 | ‘ You could n't so much as bruise the mosses on it but I 'd know . |
| 22 | Er and if if they would work they did n't want money for it but they would stay a while with you so that they would get their bed for the night and they would get their grub . |
| 23 | No some other people were saying about that , you know , ah that they , you know that they were gon na put in for it but they would n't let them cos it was shop , you know , blah blah blah . |
| 24 | You may not like me for it but I will have to drive you hard if you are to learn all you will need to survive what you will face . |
| 25 | yeah and I do n't know what they give for it but it would it would be very reasonable but it 's |
| 26 | You can buy new covers for it but it 'll cost you about eighty quid |
| 27 | THE government 's emergency food programme , according to a joke doing the rounds in Havana , is like God ; everyone talks about it but nobody can see it . |
| 28 | The city could act , the city could do something about it but it wo n't . |
| 29 | I mean I , I do n't know how you feel about it but it might be a good thing to do something that was not religious based , erm |
| 30 | The Marshal could recall no hard and fast rule about it but he could n't think that he had ever seen the pipers during Lent . |