Example sentences of "but they [vb mod] n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neighbour Muriel Harding-Newman , 79 , said : ‘ We could see the cows were stamping and kicking and that someone was trying to push them away but they would n't move . |
| 2 | Not because they could not be useful — but they would n't give us , as desiring female spectators , that much to look at . |
| 3 | A twenty-one-year-old mother of two small children in Coventry said , " I told social security that the children 's shoes were too small , but they would n't give us a grant . |
| 4 | There would then be other means however for us to pursue our our concerns that have n't we know er are moving into a future speculative situation , but if they 're not taken up we have other means of pursuing those , but they would n't affect the the conformity issue . |
| 5 | But they would n't stand there . |
| 6 | The police would go through the motions , but they would n't make a meal of it . |
| 7 | And they would follow on behind but they would n't carry it . |
| 8 | But they would n't walk a few yards into the police station and tell anybody . |
| 9 | Various high-ranking people , ending up with the governor himself , turned up , asking them to go to bed , but they would n't go . |
| 10 | But they would n't take that trouble , but they 'd always speak to the uniform policemen , if or if they heard anyone smashing glass , but they would n't go out of their way . |
| 11 | She had had to take the time off , but they would n't pay her for it . |
| 12 | Yeah , but they would n't pay me for the hour I was sitting there doing nothing you see |
| 13 | But they would n't forget for like , the first day and then |
| 14 | At the start we asked them to approach the Union of Post Office Workers ( UPW ) to cut off the mail to Grunwick but they would n't do that either . |
| 15 | British filmmakers could come up with films that would overcome the resistance of American exhibitors to non-Hollywood products , as the $5 million grossed by The Red Shoes suggests , but they would n't do so in sufficient quantities until Rank had developed more sophisticated ideas about how to cajole the right sort of product from his writers , directors and producers . |
| 16 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 17 | But they would n't take that trouble , but they 'd always speak to the uniform policemen , if or if they heard anyone smashing glass , but they would n't go out of their way . |
| 18 | Like now , wanting to hold her breast and guide it to the baby 's mouth , but they would n't let her . |
| 19 | Thus the daughter of one mother who drank asked to go to live with her grandmother , in her well-ordered ‘ nice ’ home : ‘ but they would n't let me go . |
| 20 | But they would n't let me out of the Airport ! |
| 21 | Went to Rubella 's in the evening but they would n't let me in because I had a bit of instant Whip on my Brummy vest . |
| 22 | And er I was er one that was sorted out to go , but they would n't let me go because er I could n't get b they could n't get me back to work for seven o'clock on Monday morning . |
| 23 | I had wanted to watch the roses lit by sudden light , but they would n't let me . |
| 24 | I like playing football , too , but they would n't let me play in the village under-12 team because I 'm a girl . |
| 25 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 26 | But they would n't let us in , if we wanted to go the match we had to pay . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | My girlfriend and I shouted and screamed our denials , but they would n't believe us . |
| 29 | Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me . |
| 30 | And but they would n't buy it . |