Example sentences of "but if you [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right , most people with epilepsy they 're much better if they go to sleep and you do n't wake them up , if you wake the person up from a sleep that 's just had an epileptic fit they 'll be vomiting , but if you let them sleep through it then erm , then they 're usually fine . |
| 2 | Kill me if you like , but if you let me live , I 'll do what I can to save you when you 're arrested and brought to trial for piracy . ’ |
| 3 | It is n't wrong to feel angry , but if you let it out in ways like this , the distress will increase for both of you , and you risk losing more than the chance to be a mother . |
| 4 | But if you let it lie it manures it you see . |
| 5 | But if you let it stall on you |
| 6 | But if you hear her on a if you hear her on a tape recorder she is . |
| 7 | But if you hear him speak for five minutes you think no more of them . |
| 8 | Blencowe responded , ‘ … let him spoil on ; he has a pleasure in thinking he earns his daily bread at four score years and ten ; but if you turn him off , he will soon die with grief ’ [ Baker , 1 , 639 ] . |
| 9 | Imagine your response if , when you were depositing funds in a building society account , your attention was drawn to the fact that if you died only the original investment would be returned , but if you lived you would keep all of the interest . |
| 10 | But if you stay you need a job … |
| 11 | But if you made it law that the breweries would lose their retail outlet and the publican and barman would lose their licences , you 'd soon find they make time and make staff check up to see if people were drunk . |
| 12 | These are delicious by themselves , but if you use them for Devils on Horseback ( see p112 ) your cocktail party will surely be an enormous success . |
| 13 | Alder burns well , dry ; but if you use it exclusively you will be sawing all day . |
| 14 | Pickled cucumber provides a delicious , sharp contrasting taste to the sweet , succulent melon and grapes in this recipe but if you prefer you could use ⅓ of a medium fresh cucumber instead . |
| 15 | But if you write them all down first of all starting with C. |
| 16 | Hydrogen sulphate sodium hydroxide swap them round sodium sulphate hydrogen hydroxide hy we never say hydrogen hydroxide it 's simpler to say water but if you write it as H O H then you think , Ah we 've got the two Hs and the O there . |
| 17 | But what we ca n't , it 's absolutely but if you write it in all the other divisions have got to do it as well . |
| 18 | I thinking about it over erm er coffee sir , I I I think the answer is an adder erm because its smaller than an elephant , it 's indigenous to the United Kingdom , it blends into the landscape , but if you ignore it it could be just as injurious to your health . |
| 19 | Erm but if you persist you get better . |
| 20 | But if you got it you might find it would be cheaper to do your house up using these clients rather than sell . |
| 21 | She 's very lovely and I 'm sure she kisses like a veteran , but if you mean he 's been sleeping with her , no ! |
| 22 | The downside is that some memory managers might not take kindly to the reload option , but if you try it and can get away with it , it 's the one to opt for . |
| 23 | but if you keep it still because there 's nothing happened there your eye disregards that and it takes in things that are moving . |
| 24 | Old Dick 's all right , but if you marry her you 'll be marrying her family … |
| 25 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 26 | ‘ But if you like you can have them now . ’ |
| 27 | But if you set it up jointly , you ca n't direct all the gross income if that 's what you 're thinking you ca n't say well I 'll have all that income gross cos my wife 's got an unused allowance , you 've got to split it down the middle in the case of a joint account . |
| 28 | But if you claim it in your own right you 'll be classed as independent , no longer dependant on you therefore you he is n't your dependant any longer . |
| 29 | Yeah , but if you tell them you wo n't , you just get a caution in n it ? |
| 30 | ‘ But if you tell me my players will perform well tonight , I 'll settle for that . ’ |