Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But so we got it there . |
| 2 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 3 | But if they had her there , d' you think they would let him know ? |
| 4 | The people did not see the two youths — but if they saw them now they say they would lynch them . |
| 5 | But if they did anything then that was really regarded as marvellous . |
| 6 | But if they set it off without , without noticing that you 've gone like . |
| 7 | ‘ Look , I know that one should n't mix business with pleasure , but if I asked you again , would you come out with me ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If she married Mr. Gordon she 'd live at Longreen , so she could still be our Brown Owl , ’ argued Anita , ‘ but if she married somebody else and lived away she could n't go on being . ’ |
| 9 | But if you took it regularly … |
| 10 | But if you understood it properly , you saw it repeating itself . |
| 11 | But if you asked me how a motor car worked you would think me somewhat pompous if I answered in terms of Newton 's laws and the laws of thermodynamics , and downright obscurantist if I answered in terms of fundamental particles . |
| 12 | But if you had one here and one there … |
| 13 | But if you had it once in a while , it means it stays special . ’ |
| 14 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 15 | You got until the Saturday to pay it , but if you paid it then that let you get the turn of the leaf and get more stuff for the next quarter . |
| 16 | Footholds had been made to get to books above head height but if you wanted one further up then you needed a rope , helmet and the special climbing boots to help you reach it . |
| 17 | I mean , you 'd need to do something really awful , , but if you did something really awful like , for being good , but having said that erm , you could have got elected again . |
| 18 | Circumstances had obliged him to sell out to three younger partners , but until they came he never had a telephone or typewriter . |
| 19 | But because he read them so often the Bookman had a little problem . |
| 20 | scaring herself ; not because she played her part badly , but because she played it so well . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But since we took her away from the convent she has worried us both to death . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | No , no , she 's not worried , but when we took her up recently , he , he , he said it 's only a wart like that , he did n't sort of worry |
| 26 | When we were asleep , it had ceased to matter , but when we ate it still remained a bore . |
| 27 | ah , but when we asked her where she 's from she said India |
| 28 | But when I asked him where he had been all he said was , ‘ Go back to sleep . ’ |
| 29 | But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined . |
| 30 | I brought erm , a pair of , a floral pattern leggings from Marks and Spencers on Saturday , but when I got them home , they did nothing for me . |