Example sentences of "it but [pers pn] [modal v] not " 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 I mean I would put that under group work and social skills and no er the way I would approach it but it may not apply .
10 Yeah , well I I tried to get rid of it but it would n't go .
11 It can probe it but it can not reconstruct it .
12 You try to come to terms with it but you ca n't .
13 you can lose it but you ca n't guess
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 He threw a rock down it but you could not hear it strike the bottom … .
17 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 .
18 I know that I have to believe in myself to overcome it but I ca n't when I 'm destroying myself .
19 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 .
20 No I ca n't I , I heave with it but I ca n't get nowt up .
21 Cos , we 've heard her say it but I ca n't think how she can be .
22 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
23 I tried to imitate it but I could n't do it .
24 He wanted me to talk to you about it but I could n't .
25 I asked him how he 'd done it but he would n't tell me .
26 ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge .
27 Well he was in it but he wo n't go back .
28 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 .
29 may have wanted it but she would n't have done it .
30 The tale was distressing to Ayling and she knew she ought to have curtailed it but she could not resist going on .
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