Example sentences of "but [conj] you [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be appalling to have a crazy wife , but if you also felt sorry for her , how could you be expected to cope ? |
| 2 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |
| 3 | But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him . |
| 4 | Yeah but if you just said an acid and a so and so , but you 're saying a H C L and a and it 's I know |
| 5 | Well but if you 've ju yeah but if you just said , I mean what , you s you did that when Sue was here . |
| 6 | ‘ But if you never told them what turned you on , how could you expect — ‘ |
| 7 | You should have been notified by your employer if he opted for this but if you never heard anything , or can not remember , write to that employer , or to the DHSS , and enquire . |
| 8 | ‘ But if you really had discovered this way of changing people , why did you stop ? ’ |
| 9 | I suppose you must get a thrill out of it , but if you really knew anything you 'd go to the police . ’ |
| 10 | But if you really wanted to make an impression you had to get rid of this Orcadian fast . |
| 11 | ‘ Laura never got involved in these sorts of negotiations , ’ he said ruefully , ‘ but if you ever asked her to help sort out a problem involving Bernard it was always ‘ my husband right or wrong ’ . ’ |
| 12 | erm To what extent do you rely on measurements , as it were , and to what erm extent do you rely on actual observations , because it seems to me that there 's a , at least a possibility that you may have a whole sort of set of measurements that may indicate something 's going to happen , but if you actually stuck your head out of the window and looked up you could see it was actually raining instead of sunny ? |
| 13 | But if you only had a small place it 'd be more economical to have labour than it would to buy paying out thousands of pounds for machines and |
| 14 | But if you only went on the square foot it do n't matter how big it was well that 's like , surely that 'd be fairer ? |
| 15 | ‘ But if you only knew — it 's hell 's own jest ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Interest rates you have to live with , ’ he says , ‘ but if you seriously set out to manage inflation by using interest rates to control money supply , those rates will not become extreme . |
| 17 | And all the product details were there , I mean you know that all the product details would be in front of you , but whether you actually read the small print , it 's , is , is , is the er is the issue really . |
| 18 | How many times have you told yourself you could not do something but when you ultimately faced up and had a go , to your amazement you succeeded . |
| 19 | But when you never answered the phone , and Prue went round to your house , and found carriage lamps outside the front door , and some terrible people with poodles inside , it was a terrible shock . |
| 20 | We have got good medical facilities , but as you just heard Samantha just saying , they 're destroying that as well , the only people who wanted water meters , is when houses were on ratable value and they were paying two hundred thousand pound for a house at large rates and the water rates was the same house . |