Example sentences of "but [conj] you [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , but if you 'll give me your spare keys I can be waiting here for you when you get back . |
| 2 | ‘ But if you 'll forgive me , Chieh Hsia , it still seems something of a gamble . |
| 3 | ‘ I know I 'm no substitute for either of the Julians , ’ she said at last , her tone carefully diffident , ‘ but if you would like me to come along ? |
| 4 | ‘ But if you 'd like me to be rude , I can assure you you 're the last person I wanted to bump into . ’ |
| 5 | So , but if you 'd like it on The Alchemist , and you feel you really have n't got through to The Alchemist , it 's here , okay ? |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't say I care for the idea of you two discussing me behind my back , but if you must know I was suffering from reaction , ’ said Leonora with dignity . |
| 7 | ‘ No ’ , said Jane , ‘ but if you could give me her telephone number I 'll ring and arrange to have them delivered ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ But if you could give me some minutes of your time , I 'd happily delay my visit , ’ she suggested — and silently added , or not go to Prague at all . |
| 9 | Simon 's diary next week is rather full , but if you could telephone me early next week , we may be able to work out a time . |
| 10 | But if you could let me know … ’ |
| 11 | The odd day here and there is not important , but if you could let me know within the next couple of weeks or so when you intend to take a major part of your holiday away — if you know — I do n't myself know erm yet — but if you do know then I can have a look at the overall picture and see that we 're not all dispersed . |
| 12 | But if you could help us out we would be very grateful , and as the District Council is organising the events at the City Chambers , it seems appropriate to have our District Councillor to set things rolling . |
| 13 | But if you could see me , you 'd think me but a sorry object to hobble to an altar . |
| 14 | He paused and said , ‘ This is not the time to discuss it , but if you will use me , I can help you . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sorry to trouble you now , but if you can bear it it would help us to get some more information from you all . |
| 16 | I 'm sorry to intrude on you at this hour , but if you can give me a few minutes of your time you may be able to help me , and I 'll be very much obliged . ’ |
| 17 | But if you can produce them and like to do it , and if they fit the particular sort of book you are writing , well and good . |
| 18 | But if you can see it written down , you got that for an essay , it 's so much better . ’ |
| 19 | But if you can use them they will certainly overcome many of the built-in delays involved in getting your bills paid on time . |
| 20 | Obviously you need to take your horse 's temperament and your surroundings into account , but if you can get him working alone as soon as possible you are less likely to have to cope with him napping later on because he ca n't bear to leave his friends . |
| 21 | Oh that 's what I said , I said it is but if you can get him to say you know , Sting 's deserted me you know he , he lets me live on a , you know , my twenty three quid a week pension . |
| 22 | But if you can get them with just a , an orange or a lemon sorbet . |
| 23 | Going into debt like that if you could but but you might use it to top up |
| 24 | " But before you can say it is environmentally neutral , you need to know the safety case behind the deep underground repository . " |
| 25 | rolling over to be tickled but before you could tickle it , it was flipping right over and then jumping up was n't it ? |
| 26 | ( I remember he once said about a Mondrian — ‘ It is n't whether you like it , but whether you ought to like it ’ — I mean , he dislikes abstract art on principle . |
| 27 | I do n't know I mean er maybe these are minute but whether you should explore them at that moment in time I mean only experience will tell . |
| 28 | ‘ I am afraid that these two officers do not speak English , but as you can see they are very interested in you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know who you 've got in your morgue back in London , but as you can see they 're not the three men you thought they were . ’ |
| 30 | But as you can see I 'm far too big and heavy for that , ’ he replied . |