Example sentences of "but if [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 a way of remembering index numbers , your name , because if someone goes to you S O it 's quite easy to forget it , but if someone said sierra oscar , an hour later you 'd go what was that ? what was that ?
32 But if I reveal details it may compromise other possibilities . ’
33 But if I marry Edgar , I can help Heathcliff with my husband 's money . ’
34 Peter 's , but if I think Peter 's a bit of a tosser I tell Peter to his face , he 's a tosser .
35 I use it normally on a clean setting , but if I want distortion I tend to go through a BOSS Turbo Overdrive pedal and then into the Rock Box .
36 Well yeah I know but if I do people
37 But if she got pins and needles and had to move , it woke with a jump and crept forwards again .
38 Not that I 'd wish to encourage you , but if she had children she would n't be so generous to you .
39 He knew she was getting at him — imagine a man like Marc Vila admitting to being foolish ever ! — but if she kept calm like this she could undermine him just as he had tried to undermine her .
40 But if she let fitzAlan carry her off and marry her she would be completely powerless against a man who despised her .
41 But if he killed Harry , would n't you expect a greater amount of soaking ? ’
42 The small businessman may not think of himself as being in the same league as the Maxwells and Murdochs of this world but if he produces leaflets , price lists , brochures or any other form of printed material , he has some degree of affinity with them .
43 Sooner or later he will get the chance in Norway 's line-up , but if he leave Elland Road now he will never ever get the chance of playing for his DREAMTEAM again .
44 She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English .
45 But if he recommends support for an idea that does not work , he will hear all about it . ’
46 That was nearly one-third of his holding , but if he wanted Una O'Malley that was the price he would have to pay .
47 But if he accepts integrity and knows that some victims of emotional injury have already been given a right to compensation , he will have a reason for deciding in favour of Mrs. McLoughlin nevertheless .
48 But if he entered diplomacy at all he expected to do so at or near the top .
49 But if you prefer rooms of the pine-panelled variety , The Pow Wow Point Lodge near Huntsville is a fine example , combining traditional home comforts with modern facilities .
50 Right C four from Carlisle to London is three hundred miles gracious me , you see if you 've got a map of England , we have n't got it on here but if you imagine England going up here , Carlisle is right
51 but if you write letters as bad as that
52 But if you murdered Mills it would have a certain logic , would n't it ? ’
53 But if you recycle land already used by housing , you do n't necessarily get any more or any fewer dwellings .
54 But if you exchange contracts on the fif , the fifteenth
55 But if you remember Celia Hazell , surely you remember the other mothers who delivered around that time ? ’
56 But if you cause trouble like Patrick , out you go . ’
57 … ‘ Yes , that 's a very terrible situation/difficult question , but if you get things right with the Lord , it will all work out . ’
58 Somebody like me , if I was stood at that table , I mean okay if you 've got kids coming in , but if you get adults coming in , I would n't be able to answer questions , I do n't know enough about the product .
59 but if you get attendance allowance
60 If you take any wild animal and keep it in captivity ( I would have to say most wild animals ; some insects might be taken into captivity without any suffering , but if you take vertebrates into captivity there is certainly going to be suffering ) , sometimes the animals will die very quickly after being brought into captivity , and again there is often an effect on the functioning of the immune system because they often succumb to diseases which would not otherwise have killed them .
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