Example sentences of "it but [pron] [modal v] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've asked 'em to sell me the land so I can develop it but they wo n't see sense . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some would like to forget it but it wo n't go away . |
| 7 | Well this this curve here 's got s steps in it but it wo n't |
| 8 | The city could act , the city could do something about it but it wo n't . |
| 9 | Yeah , well I I tried to get rid of it but it would n't go . |
| 10 | You try to come to terms with it but you ca n't . |
| 11 | you can lose it but you ca n't guess |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He 's asked me to go along as wardrobe mistress , I said I 'd think about it but I ca n't stand the heat . |
| 15 | I know that I have to believe in myself to overcome it but I ca n't when I 'm destroying myself . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | No I ca n't I , I heave with it but I ca n't get nowt up . |
| 18 | Cos , we 've heard her say it but I ca n't think how she can be . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | I tried to imitate it but I could n't do it . |
| 21 | He wanted me to talk to you about it but I could n't . |
| 22 | I asked him how he 'd done it but he would n't tell me . |
| 23 | ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge . |
| 24 | Well he was in it but he wo n't go back . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | may have wanted it but she would n't have done it . |