Example sentences of "[vb infin] but [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously eventually if people keep on leaking blood their pressure will fall but you could have a situation where there 's not a single drop of blood yet lost to the system and yet the person 's in shock because the blood 's not being circulated properly off the heart , not a drop of blood lost to the system , but insufficient pressure , so shock can be caused by either of those two things , failure of the circulatory system because the pressure of the volume drops dangerously low , okay , you did a lot of work on what the person looks like , yes you as the casu you as the first aider will see this person in front of you , what will they be like ? |
| 2 | We ca n't win but we must keep trying . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think we should win but everyone would think we were nicer people . ’ |
| 4 | When they had sort it out they just did n't know but they would go you know prancing around saying to one another saying then . |
| 5 | I do n't know but they used to go |
| 6 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |
| 7 | I do n't know but they must of done it sometime . |
| 8 | There is no shame in saying , ‘ I do n't know but I 'll try to find out ’ , provided that you do ‘ try and find out ’ and report back . |
| 9 | Er well offhand I do n't actually know but I 'll , I 'll get me glasses I 'll have |
| 10 | Er I do n't know but I would i I would reckon the crime rate since we 've been on the flats , even though the the flats are emptying out , h h has dropped er dramatically . |
| 11 | Now I do n't know but I would imagine that Lord and Lady Fairburn should be drummed out of Parliament , well he should . |
| 12 | Do n't know but I can remember what happens with the alkali and the acid , you get calcium chloride , er it 's the same . |
| 13 | It was n't bad , it was — well , I know something you do n't know but you 'll find out . |
| 14 | Discipline means having an agenda , starting and finishing the meeting when you said you would , answering the client 's questions with authority ( and if you can not give an answer , say you do not know but you will find out ) ; having your paperwork neat and easily at hand ; offering the best hospitality you can provide , such as telephones , a cup of coffee , a comfortable chair and a pad and pencil in case he did n't bring his own . |
| 15 | I do n't know but he ca n't shake it off . |
| 16 | How deliberately he used the wrong names I do n't know but he would announce that he was about to demonstrate the " Leg push " . |
| 17 | I do n't know but he would n't , he would n't have it cooked aboard there , my mother used to cook it for him and I 'd stagger down in an ordinary shopping basket , in two basins there 'd be vegetables in one and his pudding and gravy in the other and I used to take that down for him and he used to come ashore and he used to then go and have it . |
| 18 | When I said she was n't here , he asked where she was and I said Maidstone and he said she 'd moved and I said then I did n't know but he could leave the flowers here for Frank but he would n't . |
| 19 | I do n't know but he could of been ill , he could , it could of been that he could n't take any more you know that but Margaret was terri terribly bitter about him Margaret not coming , but he could , he could n't stand it |
| 20 | I do n't know but he used to drive it . |
| 21 | Whether that is it , I do n't know but it could well be . |
| 22 | Erm I do n't know but there may well be activities for the divisional staff outside Trident , related to work |
| 23 | can appeal but you ca n't |
| 24 | It 's okay , even if they get send down then of course they can still appeal but you ca n't it 's ridiculous |
| 25 | I mean we can wait but they wo n't mind which is which . |
| 26 | They were too drunk and crude , I want one man , one master , who I can respect but who wo n't respect me , and who will tell me what to do . |
| 27 | ' I could dance but I could n't turn corners . |
| 28 | The industry deserves better consideration and the country needs the benefits that recovery and growth in our industry could bring but which may well be sabotaged by inappropriate Government cuts . |
| 29 | And , in an argument utterly characteristic of the mercantilist view of a conflict-ridden world , Norris raised the bogey of the old rival France ; he claimed that France 's naval power had been so strengthened by her own involvement in the slave trade that if Britain discontinued it not only would her commercial prosperity decline but she would lose naval predominance . |
| 30 | It is also acknowledged and agreed that I will perform my functions hereunder solely for the said parties and neither correspondence relating to the dispute nor any finding or award made by me as expert shall give rise to any right in favour of any person not a party hereto and any such correspondence and finding [ or award ] will be confidential to the said parties and will not be disclosed without my prior written consent , which I will not unreasonably withhold but which may be given subject to conditions . |