Example sentences of "but if [pron] [vb base] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still more mystified , Connor replied , ‘ Since you 're feeling generous , I 'll take a half-pint of our best bitter … but if we 've met before , I have to admit I do n't remember the occasion . ’ |
| 2 | But , but if we 've used up her allowances er i you know it i if you want to keep it separate , if it 's simpler separate that 's okay |
| 3 | I recognise the importance of these processes , but if we wish to assess how exclusions might happen we must understand how the structure of the National Curriculum generates cases for exclusion . |
| 4 | But if we wish to get away from such obvious , well-used material , we have to use the only alternative — a mixture of adjacent notes and wider intervals . |
| 5 | As long as the dance continues we are safe , but if we try to step out we will either be pushed back or killed . |
| 6 | But if we want to consider how life arose , we have to look back a further thousand million years beyond even the earliest micro-fossils , to a time when the earth was completely lifeless and still cooling after its birth . |
| 7 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 8 | Oh no , but if we start banging on here is n't it going to reverberate ? |
| 9 | But if we do go down , it 's important that we build in it . |
| 10 | Under the Chester scheme , landlords pay £50 to register , but if they fail to do so and their houses contain more than the permitted number of occupants , they face fines of up to £1,000 . |
| 11 | But if they do look up they will see a cat's-cradle of motley cables and wires that have a tale of initiative and rebellion to tell . |
| 12 | But if I want to move up the ladder I 'll have to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But if I start looking up my own arsehole and acting differently when people parody me , I do n't think that 's a good way for me to live . |
| 14 | No , but if you stay sitting down |
| 15 | It took me a very long time because I do n't have the kind of face which people immediately commit to memory , but if you keep popping up for thirty-five years , then inevitably people are going to say , ‘ Do n't I know you ? ’ |
| 16 | But what date it was I could n't tell you but if you like to mind when when they first started . |
| 17 | Yeah but if you get asked out |
| 18 | If he raises it , fine , you deal , deal with it as an objection but if you know do n't , do n't invite objections er . |
| 19 | But if you 've made up the gain at all , then since it 's residential property , it 's exempt . |
| 20 | It 's different if you 're paid to come here to give a talk and you put up a poor show but if you 've volunteered then er I think er you know you you really ought to have a different approach to . |
| 21 | But if you 've got more than one person then it 's harder . |
| 22 | All this did , of course , cost money , but if you 've had even a comparatively small amount of that and then lost it , you do tend to realize how transient the whole thing is and not worry so much about getting it back again . |
| 23 | But if you want to talk straight that 's okay . |
| 24 | I 'm going to change subjects now , but if you want to come back to the Gulf , do feel free , the lines are open on three double one , one double one , but I in the meantime we 'll take a couple of calls on different subjects erm let's go to June from Shillingford , hello June . |
| 25 | And incidentally er about that video , ca n't tell you where you can them on the air but if you want to know where you can get Portrait Of A City , if you ring us on we 'll tell you . |
| 26 | We are planning to get another newsletter out before the next one to give you all the details but if you want to know how to label the stuff before than give me a ring |
| 27 | But if you want to get back to your roots , and fancy giving it a try , Gaye 's running a workshop on Robinswood Hill in Gloucester this Sunday . |
| 28 | But if you start putting down investment in new plant and equipment when interest is at 8% , and you find in a year 's time that you 're paying 15% — and so are your customers , and they 're not buying — it screws the numbers up . |
| 29 | I write Nonsense , but if you care to write again , you shall have a sober essay on the Everlasting Nay , or Schleiermacher 's Veil of Illusion , or the Milk of Paradise , or What you Will . |
| 30 | But if you choose to dwell only on the aspects of life you find upsetting , you may not experience as much joy as you could . |