Example sentences of "but you [vb mod] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You wo n't be able to make any impression with your bare hands , of course , unless you 're a trained weight lifter , but you 'll feel your body really working !
2 " You do n't know me , " he 'd bellow , " but you may know my brother . "
3 But you would forget your homework .
4 ‘ It was an accident , but you must do your duty . ’
5 But you must think my displeasure the heaviest thing that can befall you .
6 Ah we ai n't but you must pay your mother too , Geoff !
7 If none of this works , then you could try a full elimination diet as a last resort — but you must ask your doctor first .
8 God wants to help you do that , but you must play your part .
9 The school wo n't charge you this time , but you must cut your coat according to your cloth . ’
10 But you must understand his condition .
11 But you will support my story ? "
12 Yeah okay , then you have the appropriate facts there and you can explore the bit about savings and plans for the future but you will have his attitude to er do you er is attitude to risk there ?
13 But you 'd have your family around you , ’ Ruth pointed out .
14 I 'm sure Eukanuba will prove successful but you could ask your vet about Waltham 's Canine Low Calorie Diet as an alternative .
15 But you could write your equation that way .
16 Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil .
17 Of course the pace of the game will be different , the level of skills much lower , but you can bet your granny 's pension that if the second team game need a thumping tackle to be made , then Peter Winterbottom would make it .
18 And it does that because a wind has sprung up , you ca n't see it but you can observe its effect .
19 Mm so he said erm , that 's the situation he said but you can forget your business he said , as far as I 'm concerned he said , you 've lost for two years so he said consequently he said you 're gon na lose this year are you ?
20 ‘ It may seem so to you , but you can take my word for it , if I were in the business of prowling around car parks looking for innocent Bentleys to wreck , I most certainly would n't use my own car as a battering-ram .
21 You do n't need to go actually to the end with your numbers but you can take your line right along there cos you might find at the last minute there 's an extra one you want to put on .
22 ‘ No , but you can see his point , Mr Sutherland 's , that is .
23 There is not much you can do to make radical changes to other people 's basic life positions , but you can use your awareness of the four ‘ OK — Not OK ’ positions to understand why you sometimes feel hopeless , depressed , victimized and so on .
24 But you can use your imagination and take yourself on the fantasy voyage of your choice .
25 But you can understand It 's not excusable really but you can understand their impatience when people c consistently do n't tell them what they 're going to do .
26 They would never stay in my bedroom very long , but you can imagine my excitement each lunchtime as I watched them arrive in the garden , enter the house and quack their way up to me , as regular as clockwork .
27 But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street , watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it .
28 I think though , your lamp you 're gon na have to wait for your lamp because that 's but you can have your desk
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