Example sentences of "if [pers pn] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I doubt if we shall ever know enough to do it , but these dear dead creatures are lurking there forever in their private corners of that huge genetic hypervolume , waiting to be found if we but had the knowledge to navigate the right course through the maze . |
| 2 | If we but which programme have we got ? |
| 3 | If we but a shop wo n't sell us that . |
| 4 | If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound , |
| 5 | Yeats recalls receiving a letter from Lionel Johnson ‘ denouncing Wilde with great bitterness ’ ; Johnson believed that Wilde got a ‘ ‘ sense of triumph and power , at every dinner-table he dominated , from the knowledge that he was guilty of that sin which , more than any other possible to man , would turn all those people against him if they but knew'' ’ ( Yeats , Autobiographies , 285 ) . |
| 6 | Women have power , you know , Aggie , if they but knew how to use it . |
| 7 | They did ask me if they but erm I can im I ca n't imagine that has n't told th the of the C W L , has she ? |
| 8 | If they but they come to live here do n't they ? |
| 9 | That thorny subject , if he but knew it , was as painful to her as it was to him . |