Example sentences of "[pers pn] but [vb mod] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I commend that exercise to you but wo n't go into more detail about it now . |
| 2 | Tried to ring you but could n't get to a phone . ’ |
| 3 | My Mummy loves me but can not look after me any more . |
| 4 | My mummy loves me but can not look after me any more . |
| 5 | My mummy loves me but can not look after me any more . |
| 6 | Still , it was the sort of match that we 'd have only managed to draw last season , i.e. all over them but could n't put the ball in the onion net . |
| 7 | Eventually she found them but could n't get near — the crowds were as dense further up and , push as she might , she could not make a parting for herself . |
| 8 | Two German boats away to port challenged them but could not report the intrusion as these harbour patrol boats had no wireless . |
| 9 | They were all related to the general principle , said to have been established with the introduction of legal aid in 1950 , that ‘ … legal services should be available to those who need them but can not afford to pay for them . ’ |
| 10 | I look at him but ca n't tell if he really forgot the name or not . |
| 11 | Ian 's there by himself and I want to be alongside him but ca n't do anything about it . |
| 12 | ‘ Leanne has told him she loves him but ca n't live with him . |
| 13 | I was getting more fish than him but could n't get the quality despite trying every bait in the book . |
| 14 | She wanted him but could n't have him and she must deal with that because he had forewarned her . |
| 15 | The child was emphatic , ‘ but he just went away , we looked for him but could n't find him ’ . |
| 16 | She did not want to think of him but could not help it . |
| 17 | Living in close intimacy with Jean-Claude had not prepared me for confronting in musical shape the qualities I sensed and loved in him but could not define . |
| 18 | He asked the Church Commissioners to do it but would not wait to see whether they consented . |
| 19 | The drag of the chain slows it but ca n't stop my club thumping against the side of hi-head . |
| 20 | She could admit it but could n't control the change . |
| 21 | The goalkeeper got a finger to it but could n't keep out the screamer . |
| 22 | I 've smelt it but could n't believe it . |
| 23 | The consequence of this damage was , on this theory , that when the patient heard speech he could understand it but could not transmit what he had heard to the brain region for speech production , and so could not repeat it . |
| 24 | I spoke to her , telling her to do as we had earlier discussed and detach herself from the scene so that she could see it and tell me about it but could not feel any distress , whether mental , physical or emotional . |
| 25 | Enjoying , we spontaneously welcome awareness ; bored and listless , we can not without effort summon it up ; disliking , we withdraw from it ; suffering , we recoil from it but can not escape it . |