Example sentences of "[prep] it but [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge . |
| 2 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note . |
| 3 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note |
| 4 | Yeah , well I I tried to get rid of it but it would n't go . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You try to come to terms with it but you ca n't . |
| 7 | No I ca n't I , I heave with it but I ca n't get nowt up . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well this this curve here 's got s steps in it but it wo n't |
| 10 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |
| 11 | Well he was in it but he wo n't go back . |
| 12 | He threw a rock down it but you could not hear it strike the bottom … . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The city could act , the city could do something about it but it wo n't . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | He wanted me to talk to you about it but I could n't . |