Example sentences of "[prep] it [pers pn] [vb mod] not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 No , I ca n't , it 'll , if you do n't take the head of it I ca n't eat it , I could n't even , I have prawn cocktail and you have a prawn , they put , they put a prawn on top whole , I could n't eat that , I could have peeled it , I looked at it and I thought about it , no , I can eat them when there done
2 Some of it I ca n't disclose , some of it would have been on the lines of : ‘ Make sure you do this or that ’ .
3 On the other hand , now I come to think of it I ca n't see why they should go round clanking chains .
4 And the size of it I ca n't see it being full up .
5 ‘ I knew you 'd tracked me down , so I thought if I only took some of it you would n't put the cops on me .
6 Answer guide : On the face of it you may not need much financial information as you are not judged on profitability over which you have little control as selling prices and buying prices are fixed .
7 Some of it you ca n't keep int office and
8 For example once he went to Rome on business and when he got back he told me about a building which was like the sky at night , so big that even when you stood in front of it you could n't believe you were actually seeing it .
9 But half of it you could n't understand could you ?
10 I thought I knew , I knew with it I could n't wear my bottom teeth all week because of the ulcers right beside near the bottom of my gum .
11 In it we can not go to any of the extremes because we are aware of them all .
12 That is really my position and , unless I believed in it I would not feel justified in the course I have taken .
13 I mean unless somebody 's living in it you ca n't go in the evenings in the winter can you ?
14 ‘ Her room smells funny , like an old jar with something sticky and brown in it you ca n't tell what it is . ’
15 Cos if Bill knows that I get upset over it he wo n't have any of them there !
16 Without it they would n't exist .
17 The labelling matters ; without it they can not rebuild the alien 's spaceship .
18 They are choosing to do this because they have learned that without it they can not sustain their good intentions .
19 I really do believe that without it we would n't have got here , without that silly ring I should not be here with you now , Therese , now this moment .
20 Usually we oh about mid-sixties or in that direction and er without it we would n't have done extra barley .
21 Do n't skimp on it , because the experience of great Christians has been that without it we can not grow into Christian maturity .
22 As the Archbishop of York observed : ‘ they have shown that it [ planning ] should embrace the whole country , and that without it we can not make the best use of the limited space in our small island ’ ( p. 160 ) .
23 Without it we should not have the motive or stimulus to reach our goals or survive some of the situations in which we find ourselves .
24 Without it I can not proceed . ’
25 Without it he can not attain to full powers either of learning or of teaching in any .
26 He always needed that : without it he could not feel easy in himself .
27 But without it she could not pay for her coffee and salad .
28 However , he knew that if he failed to live up to it they would not take his word again .
29 She had meant to confide that she , too , was a seduced woman ; yet when it came to it she could n't find the correct words .
30 But there was a quality to it he would not have expected .
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