Example sentences of "[verb] but [pron] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swallows fly but they do n't swim ; and whales swim but they do n't fly . |
| 2 | She helped but she did n't tell me what to do all the time . |
| 3 | Well I do n't know but I mean not someone |
| 4 | So how on earth they keep them to a schedule I do not know but I do n't want to know now . |
| 5 | We do n't know but I do n't know but that is a doubt as to whether the manufacturing flavour of the past will be carried on through the decade . |
| 6 | She has but I 've not had time to er assess her yet . |
| 7 | His thick hair was greying but he had not given up on red baseball shoes , sleeveless T-shirts or what he called his ‘ cosmopolitan Lancashire accent , half scouse , half Lancashire ’ . |
| 8 | I shouted but you did n't hear , so I had to chase you . ’ |
| 9 | I stopped but he did n't and I wheezed after him . |
| 10 | He folded the paper away as we approached but he did n't stand up . |
| 11 | So we 've tried to set the duty at a level which makes it clear to those who seek to commit financial crime that they 're more likely to be caught but which does not impose additional reporting burdens or costs on those who conduct their business honestly and that is a most important balance to strike . |
| 12 | This is something I was trying to get clarified but I do n't care really as long as somebody gets it . |
| 13 | I 've I 've looked but he has n't come in . |
| 14 | I I say but I do n't feel as I want |
| 15 | but you still have to take care in case somebody says well I 've just done fractions two , and you say but you have n't done fractions |
| 16 | I 'd lie there listening but I did n't want to know . |
| 17 | He could swear but I had n't got to do . |
| 18 | I mean I says , look I says , I 'm not , I 'm not saying you ca n't have your parties or whatever , I says but I says not in the bedrooms . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's what she says but I do n't try to influence her either way . ’ |
| 20 | She says but I do n't why they do n't tells the old man they told me . |
| 21 | so he says but I do n't know what to do he says cos if there 's a job you know , if there 's any overtime , cos there ai n't been none but if there 's any overtime he says I do n't know what to do I said bloody do the overtime , let her hang about . |
| 22 | I 'm looking for a millionaire , she says but I do n't see many around I said what about the doctors ? |
| 23 | Yeah , he says but he did n't want to buy er five by fours . |
| 24 | I listen but I do n't talk about myself — I like to think because I believe in privacy , but really it 's because I 'm too proud to admit failure . |
| 25 | The third : the targets are met or exceeded but one does not see the results in the shops . |
| 26 | I think he might have done but he did n't say . |
| 27 | Kevin 's been done but I 've not given him anything back in writing yet , which I 've go to do . |
| 28 | I ca n't say I approve of what he has done but I do n't ask him and I do n't want to know the details . ’ |
| 29 | He was not rewarded with the birdie four he deserved but it did not matter . |
| 30 | With impregnated pellets the fish benefit but you do n't get clouded water . |