Example sentences of "[adv prt] but [pron] [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The players are down but they could not have given any more . ’ |
| 2 | Well , to me if a child has got a by all means encourage along but you should n't push them into anything cos later on in life they get a bloody complex about everything you know if they |
| 3 | Anyway , she was above all the lads in our year — she liked stringing them along but she could n't have fallen for any of them . |
| 4 | Any other and I put diabetes in there asthma is an illness which erm you may come across , it 's the clogging up , it 's something irri irritates the tubes , the windpipe and the bronchial tube and the person can not draw air in , well they can draw it in but they ca n't get it out and they 're , and they 're trying very hard and the noise , has anybody heard anybody with an asthma attack ? |
| 5 | He put his finger in but it would n't hop on to it . |
| 6 | It 's , you can put it in but you ca n't put it back with your fingers you do n't realize it when you go up and get it and you ai n't got enough |
| 7 | I had treaded in but you ca n't have treaded , still , oh a tyre is treaded is n't it ? |
| 8 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 9 | The roof of the barn concerns me because eventually it will fall in but I dare not start on it just yet — the house must take priority . |
| 10 | Well I could still get in but I could n't lock the door say no bugger off . |
| 11 | ‘ The Palace deal nearly went through but it would not have been the same as this , ’ said Phelan . |
| 12 | Laidlaw had tacked his brains over and over but he could n't place the name . |
| 13 | ‘ Others go over but I would n't set foot there even in the height of summer ! |
| 14 | They wo n't mind odds-and-ends like us clearing off but they wo n't want to lose you . |
| 15 | So she said she 'd got some of the scale off but she could n't get u all of it on and she said these last , well three or four weeks she said every time he eats his food he goes meouw and runs away and he ca n't eat ! |
| 16 | He added : ‘ I do n't want to see anyone sent off but you ca n't have tackles like that flying around . ’ |
| 17 | " You 've been lovely and I 'm leading you on but I ca n't deliver at the moment . |
| 18 | Oh well there 's one with lo two lovely flowers on but I ca n't see any on the , any of the other plants . |
| 19 | No it would n't turn me on but you could n't help looking could you ? |
| 20 | I 'll drive you to Glasgow the minute the snow lets up but I 'll not hear a word about it . ’ |
| 21 | Just trying to see if there was any , Ernie , I 'm trying to hunt Ernie up but I ca n't find him yet . |
| 22 | I was feeling pretty fed up but I should n't have said what I did . |
| 23 | At this moment two people grabbed me to try to make me get up but I could not get up , so they kicked me and stamped all over me from head to toe . |
| 24 | His lips moved , and some noises came out but I could n't make sense of them . |
| 25 | It was in one of New York City 's ‘ crowded sections ’ that Thrasher and Cressey found that ‘ the photoplay of Little Caesar seemed to have swept certain groups of boys — like a cyclone , leaving a host of consequences ’ and came across boys who swaggered , threw mock-punches , dressed , and ‘ smiled like Cagney ’ and who went around repeating phrases like ‘ You can dish it out but you ca n't take it . ’ |
| 26 | Modern Rythmic Gymnastics is more about poise than power … its grace not gusto … is it a sport or is it art … theyre arguingthat one out but you ca n't deny its style and skill … |
| 27 | We tried to get a rubber that rubs , rubs ink out but you ca n't get one very well can you ? |
| 28 | " I tried to buy him out but he would n't play . " |
| 29 | he 's , he 's one of these people ta give it out but he ca n't take it . |
| 30 | I think we were all back but we could n't get out could we ? |