Example sentences of "[verb] it but [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't know it but I 'd have paid her double to get her ass out . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't need it but I 'll do much better than that . |
| 3 | I must admit at this stage I though I had cracked it but I should have known after so many years of breeding fish , success is not guaranteed . |
| 4 | Most of them do n't show it but you can set it to show it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I asked him how he 'd done it but he would n't tell me . |
| 7 | The tale was distressing to Ayling and she knew she ought to have curtailed it but she could not resist going on . |
| 8 | These concessions from the mining company seemed to point to another Irish solution to an Irish problem — ‘ We 'll do it but we 'll do it out of sight ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm quite happy to go into that , we have all the information here , we can do it but it would take some time I suspect . |
| 11 | I can do it but it 'd take |
| 12 | God 's power resent with us in the here and now , we ca n't see it but we can feel it . |
| 13 | And it does that because a wind has sprung up , you ca n't see it but you can observe its effect . |
| 14 | I ca n't really see it but I can see what it |
| 15 | I mean , you probably would n't see it but I can see it , she 's losing it . |
| 16 | ‘ She ca n't see it but she can touch it . |
| 17 | You probably do n't remember it but there used to be a bowl and a big jug for washing you in the bedroom . |
| 18 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 19 | I 'm actually , I 'm quite high on as theorist as well and I like to write everything out in full and I clear structures and if I go to training sessions and they 're all over the place , it 's such a in about five minutes and I have to say hang on a minute it might not be structured in the way that you like it but you can actually learn from it . |
| 20 | I do n't , I 've never played it but I 'd certainly like to but |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | You ca n't stop it but you can influence it . |
| 23 | I wanted very much to give it but he could see I could n't . |
| 24 | Next time he would not only miss it but it would hit him on the leg . |
| 25 | I tried to imitate it but I could n't do it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I 'd like to put one simple note and I think it 'll have to be simple for him to understand it but I would like to put one simple notion to him and that is that there is great merit in having public services sharing by people from all social classes . |
| 28 | Some would like to forget it but it wo n't go away . |
| 29 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |
| 30 | I can write in the dark I ca n't read it but I can write it . |