Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hunt is a legend here but if I go on and beat his all-time record I think it 'll take some bettering . |
| 2 | But if I write back and say I have n't actually had any wages since the seventeenth of January I might get it backdated from then . |
| 3 | But if you get up and give me a hand |
| 4 | You know , I mean even at these diet clubs , oh well , you know do n't stop going out just eat what you , but if you go out and you 're eating sweets for you know , after your dinner |
| 5 | Later on you can start slacking off , but if you come in and you 're all weak and everything else like that , then they 'll think , oh , we can play this person up , and that 's it , you 've had it , you know . |
| 6 | But if you phone up and they 've got one they reserve it for you but you have to get it that day , were n't it Bev ? |
| 7 | But if you turned round and said to them all right with the consent of the people and with the consent of the Planning Authority we will authorize a site , we would get on and provide it , and they would n't spend four hundred thousand pounds of the taxpayers money in doing it , and it does n't stop there because having spent the four hundred thousand pounds you 've then got to provide the wardening of the site and the constant maintenance , which is a drain . |
| 8 | While its hindquarters are towards you there is no real danger , but if it turns round and you can see its head you can bet that a bid to escape is pending . |
| 9 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |
| 10 | A new cooker or whatever can be a tremendous boon and investment but before you go out and spend money ask yourself questions about the way you live : is the pace hectic or leisurely ? how many and what sort of meals do you have to provide ? are you far from a good supermarket or freezer centre ? how much time do you have for shopping ? are you out at work all day ? do you grow your own vegetables ? how often do you entertain ? can you spend time on cooking and food preparation or is it always meals in a hurry ? |
| 11 | But before you rush off and spend your savings on a weaver or crib biter , think ahead . |
| 12 | They 're both at All Saints at present but whether she goes back or not is |
| 13 | But after he sat down and thought about it he came in and apologised to the lads . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But after he sat down and thought about it he has come in and apologised to the lads and realised he maybe should not have said it . |
| 15 | with me , you play the rule , but when they came in and they said all this |
| 16 | But when I looked up and saw you , all I could think of was holding you , kissing you — ’ |
| 17 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 18 | It is difficult to assess exactly what all these developments mean individually , but when you step back and look at them as a whole trend , the implications become clear . |
| 19 | But when you cast on and knit the sleeve , you find that when the work is removed from the machine , the stitches ‘ shrink ’ and in so doing , the depth of the armhole decreases . |
| 20 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 21 | But when he looked down and met his daughter 's eyes , the certainty there disturbed him . |
| 22 | When he lowered Grainne on to the pile of thick fur rugs before the fire , he was trembling , but when he stood up and began to unfasten his own clothes , he did so with a calm sureness and a gentle authority . |
| 23 | But when he knelt down and tested the earth with his hands , some of the tracks seemed fresh . |
| 24 | But when she got back and dialled Alix 's number , Alix was out . |