Example sentences of "it but [pron] [vb mod] " 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 | I 've asked 'em to sell me the land so I can develop it but they wo n't see sense . |
| 3 | Er and if if they would work they did n't want money for it but they would stay a while with you so that they would get their bed for the night and they would get their grub . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 6 | The kids hate it but what can I do ? |
| 7 | If we look at them carefully we see a faint band in it but we ca n't count the bands this way , we can see them much better with X- rays . |
| 8 | These concessions from the mining company seemed to point to another Irish solution to an Irish problem — ‘ We 'll do it but we 'll do it out of sight ’ . |
| 9 | Does n't no , but the point if that was being contemplated and today we get away with it but we would n't get away with it tomorrow or Thursday . |
| 10 | God 's power resent with us in the here and now , we ca n't see it but we can feel it . |
| 11 | Er that they are changing a whole range o of non-economic variables which allow the peasant the world to see the world does n't have to be like this we can actually question the landlord and not only can we get away with it but we can get something out of it . |
| 12 | I 'll be disappointed if we do n't make it but we must be cautious too . ’ |
| 13 | Some would like to forget it but it wo n't go away . |
| 14 | Well this this curve here 's got s steps in it but it wo n't |
| 15 | The city could act , the city could do something about it but it wo n't . |
| 16 | I mean I would put that under group work and social skills and no er the way I would approach it but it may not apply . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | You can buy new covers for it but it 'll cost you about eighty quid |
| 19 | You might n't think it but it would be nice to feel proud of where you come from . |
| 20 | Next time he would not only miss it but it would hit him on the leg . |
| 21 | I 'm quite happy to go into that , we have all the information here , we can do it but it would take some time I suspect . |
| 22 | yeah and I do n't know what they give for it but it would it would be very reasonable but it 's |
| 23 | Yeah , well I I tried to get rid of it but it would n't go . |
| 24 | I can do it but it 'd take |
| 25 | ‘ That is one part of it but it can be very depressing if you lose out , like in December . ’ |
| 26 | It can probe it but it can not reconstruct it . |
| 27 | declared for people who are buying houses and etcetera and it has a certain statutory status but it but it can be looked at again clearly . |
| 28 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 29 | No put your tie on so it goes over your collar that 's right , now it goes over your ti over your shirt collar at the back and then that 's it but you 'll have to , you 'll have to do it yourself soon , you know |
| 30 | You try to come to terms with it but you ca n't . |