Example sentences of "but i [vb mod] [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm trying to wash my hair , but I dare n't do , I 'll do it tomorrow |
| 2 | But I ca n't do it — all I can think about is Marie 's face . |
| 3 | I 'm crying a bit as I try and stick the pieces together , but I ca n't do it so I just leave them on the floor and sit back in the chair . |
| 4 | John Culshaw tells of your listening to de Sabata 's recording of Tosca and saying , ‘ No , he 's right but I ca n't do it . |
| 5 | I kept you here for as long as I could but I ca n't do that anymore . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Marjorie , I 've got to talk to you about this business , but I ca n't do it now . |
| 7 | They 're telling me to go on the stage and act , but I ca n't do it , it 's the one thing Mum and Dad are dead set against . ’ |
| 8 | But I ca n't do that , ’ said Breeze . |
| 9 | But I ca n't do anything with it because I lost the numbers . |
| 10 | PLAYER : They 're hardly divisible , sir — well , I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric , and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love , and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive , but I ca n't do you love and rhetoric without the blood . |
| 11 | But I ca n't do that unless you help yourself . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm here to help you but I ca n't do that unless you talk to me . |
| 13 | ‘ But I ca n't do that ! |
| 14 | I 'm well educated and I 've got two children and I can manage pretty well , there 's a number of much more essential things that I know how to do , but I ca n't do those ones , and when they come up I feel like weeping myself sick . " |
| 15 | But I ca n't do it on my own . |
| 16 | ‘ But I ca n't do anything to help him ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Sorry , but I ca n't do that . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd love to be back in Bishop Auckland just now , if only for the gossip , but I ca n't do a day 's canvassing and sometimes feel a bit of a passenger . |
| 19 | ‘ I wish I could frame the question so you could just answer Yes or No , Phil , but I ca n't do that . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I should then be learning my lines but I ca n't do anything before the kids get to bed . |
| 21 | Yeah I know , but I ca n't do that |
| 22 | But erm what I am going to do but I ca n't do it until the spring erm at least until erm has cut the grass for the first time |
| 23 | I can do like , a couple but I ca n't do |
| 24 | Yeah , but I ca n't do that |
| 25 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 26 | Diesel park West sent us incredible demo tapes , but I would not do a deal without seeing them perform live. , |
| 27 | Yes , if it was essential for the character but I would n't do it just for hype . |
| 28 | ‘ But I would n't do a fourth movie . |
| 29 | Erm , but I would n't do it without a father . |
| 30 | I used to leave tampons in overnight but I would n't do now . |