Example sentences of "but if you [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | But if you contribute to the world 's culture , if you have a good idea , compose a tune , invent a sparking plug , write a poem , it may live on , intact , long after your genes have dissolved in the common pool . |
2 | You will be tense at the audition because a lot is at stake , but if you trust to your own natural resources , the degree of panic can be reduced . |
3 | no , but if you went to Woodthorpe Junior School there 's a good chance my dad hit you with a plastic ruler . |
4 | So if you were unemployed in Mississippi and you were black , you had trouble getting the fifty dollars to start with but that was all you 'd get , but if you went to New York you get five hundred dollars , so what would you do ? |
5 | But if you get to the end of the selected period , there 's always one . |
6 | GARDEN CENTRES Okay for plants and fertiliser , but if you go to such places you will probably be served by a weekend youngster on slave wages , who would n't know a Koi from a goldfish . |
7 | But if you go to sleep at night thinking there is no way out , you 've got a serious problem . |
8 | ‘ But if you go to the trouble of putting a screen round the tub , what else do you do ? ’ |
9 | Most solicitors would fit in a certain category , but if you go to another group of people , they would fit in , engineers , they would fit into another category . |
10 | If you go to see this football club to watch the football match , you are not allowed to park on the grass verge outside because the police do n't let you but if you go to a car boot sale at the football club the next day the cars , the grass verge is littered with cars cos it 's Sunday presumably and the police are not allowed to enforce on it so I do think that some of the traffic problems maybe need to be more carefully reinforced to stop this , you know , to stop the dealers you 're not going tyo these places but you know I think you do need to , you do need to , to regulate them but please , you know , do n't let's push them out altogether . |
11 | And , they may have one display displayed , but if you go to somewhere like a warehouse or distribution where you go round and pick up your you can go to a garden you 'll pick up a box that 's illustrating a Flymo lawn mower or something and , and it 'll , er they spend a lot of time and money on the packaging , but , a lot of people for pilferage reasons do n't illustrate and that 's good practise not to illustrate , from our point of view , what 's on the package . |
12 | It 's like , if you go to , I 've heard , I 've not been , but if you go to Hong Kong , you can have a suit made overnight . |
13 | We will keep you informed of developments , but if you wish to be among the first to know you should sign on to our mailing list if you have not done so already . |
14 | If you 've got any sensitivities at all do n't look at them please , but if you wish to , they 'll give you an indication of the kind of thing that your fire fighters have been facing over the last three or four months . |
15 | But if you return to the table , Sir , this time I can follow you to the right room . ’ |
16 | But if you listen to the two discs reviewed here as examples , you will discover that , in their respective vocal ranges , these artists are without equal in 1992 . |
17 | But if you listen to Johnny Marr , there 's actually nothing there that you have n't heard before ; it was the combination of that weirdly familiar kind of backing with Morrissey 's voice and lyrics that did it . |
18 | You could almost think that was a stereo spread of one performance but if you listen to it on headphones you can hear it properly . ’ |
19 | But if you listen to the nice people in the village , you 'll get a much more objective , balanced and healthy view . |
20 | But if you listen to him on telly , he is n't ! |
21 | She says , but if you listen to it , and then if you do n't think that should be there you can go over it . |
22 | Erm yeah if you try and transcribe stuff , as I discovered doing my P HD you know , I did n't realise how much gibberish was talked and often things the meaning 's clear in the conversation but if you listen to the words or l w read the words later y'know you have n't a clue what they 're on about and yet you 're fairly sure |
23 | There is little to be gained from refusing to do so , but if you object to the warning for some reason , you should make that clear and pursue your rights under the appeals procedure . |
24 | But if you crossed to the wrong post there was a devil of an arguament because someone ended up with only half a strip |
25 | But if you stick to commonsense rules which you 're brought up to believe , or most people are , then I think it would work better , because you 're in a sort of rules — in the same environment … |
26 | But if you want to be humane you do n't last long as Minister with Special Responsibility for Immigration because the policies you have to carry out are so inhumane . |
27 | But if you want to — you know — go anywhere , there 's one at the end of the yard . |
28 | But if you want to you can re-name him . ’ |
29 | Erm , now some of you , you know , er , this is a big company , you probably have very intricate expense forms type things that you have to do , but if you want to , kindly note that you can analyse your expenses on the front of the envelopes |
30 | they go on about Shakespeare and Chauce Chaucer but if you spoke to them the way Chaucer used to speak they would n't understand a word you were saying . |