Example sentences of "about it but [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE government 's emergency food programme , according to a joke doing the rounds in Havana , is like God ; everyone talks about it but nobody can see it . |
| 2 | The city could act , the city could do something about it but it wo n't . |
| 3 | I mean I , I do n't know how you feel about it but it might be a good thing to do something that was not religious based , erm |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And he said well I 'm pretty sure , but he said fifty , fifty and I said to him , well I said you know , you think about it but I 'd already , sort of , made up my mind that I was n't gon na , sort of , next year anyway |
| 7 | He wanted me to talk to you about it but I could n't . |
| 8 | ‘ We have to talk about it but I will be doing that with my colleagues at the FA before I talk to anyone else . ’ |