Example sentences of "but [conj] they [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if they had her there , d' you think they would let him know ? |
| 2 | But if they get it wrong they have the consolation that , for all the recriminations , it probably wo n't have made much difference to the outcome of the election . |
| 3 | The people did not see the two youths — but if they saw them now they say they would lynch them . |
| 4 | But if they set it off without , without noticing that you 've gone like . |
| 5 | Circumstances had obliged him to sell out to three younger partners , but until they came he never had a telephone or typewriter . |
| 6 | Fagg and company were upset about Blenkinsop going , but since they trusted him utterly they left it to him to choose someone just like himself . |
| 7 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 8 | Cos it wanted laying er now they 've put the rough stuff down but when they put it down they left er about say inch er drop you know so er if you ca n't see where you 're walking , especially strangers they 're gon na tipple over . |
| 9 | Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there . |
| 10 | For one uncertain moment she thought they were in each other 's arms , but as they welcomed her warmly , she decided that she had been mistaken . |