Example sentences of "[adv prt] but [pers pn] [vb mod] n't " in BNC.

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1 Well , to me if a child has got a by all means encourage along but you should n't push them into anything cos later on in life they get a bloody complex about everything you know if they
2 Anyway , she was above all the lads in our year — she liked stringing them along but she could n't have fallen for any of them .
3 Any other and I put diabetes in there asthma is an illness which erm you may come across , it 's the clogging up , it 's something irri irritates the tubes , the windpipe and the bronchial tube and the person can not draw air in , well they can draw it in but they ca n't get it out and they 're , and they 're trying very hard and the noise , has anybody heard anybody with an asthma attack ?
4 but we 're having votes to see if we should let girls in but we should n't .
5 I think Dianne said she was gon na be in but she wo n't erm
6 I mean when , when , when she was home she could have spent the evening with us when all the children were there and joined in but she would n't , she cleared out back and that 's how Julie heard
7 He put his finger in but it would n't hop on to it .
8 It 's , you can put it in but you ca n't put it back with your fingers you do n't realize it when you go up and get it and you ai n't got enough
9 I had treaded in but you ca n't have treaded , still , oh a tyre is treaded is n't it ?
10 Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this .
11 and lovely , I just woke up , er a couple of minutes before then the insurance lad come cos when I only , he should of come yesterday and I waited in but I could n't , you know when I opened the door I says I , I he says , you know
12 Well I could still get in but I could n't lock the door say no bugger off .
13 Laidlaw had tacked his brains over and over but he could n't place the name .
14 ‘ Others go over but I would n't set foot there even in the height of summer !
15 They wo n't mind odds-and-ends like us clearing off but they wo n't want to lose you .
16 So she said she 'd got some of the scale off but she could n't get u all of it on and she said these last , well three or four weeks she said every time he eats his food he goes meouw and runs away and he ca n't eat !
17 He added : ‘ I do n't want to see anyone sent off but you ca n't have tackles like that flying around . ’
18 " You 've been lovely and I 'm leading you on but I ca n't deliver at the moment .
19 Oh well there 's one with lo two lovely flowers on but I ca n't see any on the , any of the other plants .
20 No it would n't turn me on but you could n't help looking could you ?
21 Just trying to see if there was any , Ernie , I 'm trying to hunt Ernie up but I ca n't find him yet .
22 I was feeling pretty fed up but I should n't have said what I did .
23 He was unconscious and I tried to wake him up but I could n't .
24 I looked it up but I could n't
25 But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that
26 His lips moved , and some noises came out but I could n't make sense of them .
27 I tried to pull the post out but I could n't , it was about six feet long and so it was dragging on the ground .
28 I tried to pull them out but I could n't .
29 It was in one of New York City 's ‘ crowded sections ’ that Thrasher and Cressey found that ‘ the photoplay of Little Caesar seemed to have swept certain groups of boys — like a cyclone , leaving a host of consequences ’ and came across boys who swaggered , threw mock-punches , dressed , and ‘ smiled like Cagney ’ and who went around repeating phrases like ‘ You can dish it out but you ca n't take it . ’
30 Modern Rythmic Gymnastics is more about poise than power … its grace not gusto … is it a sport or is it art … theyre arguingthat one out but you ca n't deny its style and skill …
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