Example sentences of "but he [vb mod] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E did n't say , but 'e wo n't want you nosin' around 'is room-'ere , come back 'ere . ’ |
| 2 | He can start things but he ca n't finish them . |
| 3 | But he ca n't move without you — pouncing on him . |
| 4 | He is conscious of Marjorie 's watery blue eyes scanning him speculatively over the rim of her teacup , inviting further discussion of Sandra , but he ca n't face it , not this morning , not with a day 's work ahead of him . |
| 5 | He goes to the meetings but he ca n't stay behind afterwards for the real meeting — in the pub . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , but he ca n't speak , can he ? |
| 7 | Of course , the real reason is that 900 of his constituents work at Rothmans and he fears for his majority but he ca n't bring himself actually to say so . |
| 8 | She said : ‘ Neil was on the back but he ca n't tell us much about it yet . |
| 9 | But he ca n't care about the individuals . |
| 10 | Instead of seeing the person depicted on the duckpond surface of the polaroids , he sees an amalgam : this one 's slightly dark upper lip , this one 's nervy legs , this one 's role in Le Médecin malgré lui at the Comédie Française ( where he has recently sat through an excruciating evening of seventeenth-century high camp ) , this one 's intensely white and brown eyes , this one 's professed love of Shakespeare , this one 's part in an erotic thriller ( he can remember her buttocks from that movie , but he ca n't fix them to the right actress without his notes ) . |
| 11 | ‘ But he ca n't do that ! ’ |
| 12 | But he ca n't do that , until he 's paid up every penny he owes |
| 13 | The Roman centurion can return and enforce the evacuation but he ca n't open up responses . |
| 14 | Churchill knows he 'll never win this war , but he ca n't give it up ! |
| 15 | Mr has great powers but he ca n't give evidence on this case |
| 16 | He 's infiltrated the group and is buying regular small doses but he ca n't start asking questions too soon . ’ |
| 17 | The guy holds tight to his pistol but he ca n't make me move my knee . |
| 18 | Well I 've tried to ring Billy Bingham their manager today , but he ca n't make up his mind , he , he , apparently he 's going to name his side tomorrow . |
| 19 | Sugar needs 75% of shares voted , plus a simple majority among shareholders voting , but he ca n't vote his own sizeable holding . |
| 20 | But he ca n't repress a shudder as he recalls the day he learned of his wife 's death , at first being told that she had drowned . |
| 21 | But he ca n't stop at that . |
| 22 | But he ca n't talk yet . |
| 23 | He says he wishes Harry had a radio but he ca n't carry one without Oxygen . |
| 24 | I do n't know but he ca n't shake it off . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm innocent , believe me , Craig has fooled you but he ca n't fool me , he wanted it all , the property and land , the business and every penny of the money . |
| 26 | But he ca n't expect any help form the Borough Council . |
| 27 | We can have one from there to there but he ca n't have one here . |
| 28 | ‘ But he ca n't find him here , ’ said Tim , ‘ especially the state he 's in . ’ |
| 29 | If there is trouble it seems Jones is inevitably in the middle of it , but he ca n't afford to mix it any more with a six-month suspended ban hanging over him . |
| 30 | But he ca n't spend the rest of his life waiting , he needs pushing to get him to live again . |