Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [verb] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repeatedly we are told that if its characters fail to resist the Shadow , they will be taken over , but if they do resist they may get killed ; similarly if they reject the vagaries of chance ( if Frodo for instance had refused to leave the Shire with the Ring ) , it 's likely something highly unpleasant will happen , but if they accept and obey things could grow even worse . |
| 2 | Two sides may each want to beat the other , they may even hate each other as sides , but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about , then they 'd feel together . |
| 3 | If I pulled out he would probably do me over for being a chicken , but if I competed and beat him ( unlikely but not impossible ) … well , I might as well have booked my hospital bed then and there . |
| 4 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 5 | But if you try and go back to it , when you have n't done it for years , you realize how complicated it was . |
| 6 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 7 | their , their supply routes are n't as well defined as ours , but they 've got shear weight of numbers , see , I 'm af , I 'm afraid , I could be a fucking karate black belt or something right , so one on one against you I would n't have a problem , but if you went and got fucking thirty of your mates I would have a problem , I maybe able to hold you off for a fucking few minutes or something or if you could either contact , maybe a few months or years or something , but they will win |
| 8 | But if you went and called . ’ |
| 9 | But if you go and ask Executive , they might give you money , cos they 're kinder in there . |
| 10 | But if you go and look down in your statements now just to check that ! |
| 11 | It 's really difficult for me to measure these sorts of things , but if you stop and look at him , he must have been in pain . |
| 12 | But if you prevaricate and say , ‘ I ca n't comment on this because I 'm an officer of the Council , ’ then they think , ‘ Oh , God , you know , what sort of person am I talking to ? ’ and you lose all your empathy and all the sympathy of the listeners , which is what you 're after . |
| 13 | You do n't have to show your master plan to anyone , but if you complete and update it periodically you will achieve so much more . |
| 14 | I am not saying they 're all pussycats but if you love and respect them , they will return those qualities tenfold . |
| 15 | But if you did and said can you sell me some erm emulsion paint , which is non-drip , and they sell you some matt paint , which drips , then clearly they 've sold you something which was not fit for the purpose that you had specified . |
| 16 | I 'm sure he gives them a lot of his time but if you practise and play that much … hell , you have got to do so many other things as well . ’ |
| 17 | But unless we restructure and modernise , declining global competitiveness will have social and regional costs which are equally — high but even longer-lasting . |
| 18 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 19 | But while they hesitated and debated , Lucy 's strength ebbed away and she fell in a swoon , putting to death a hundred thousand insects beneath her lovely body . |
| 20 | My sister 's burnt her arm , but before you come and dress it , I must tell you that we 're frightfully hard up . |
| 21 | Society too , of course , changes ( and helps to change us ) , but whether it develops and matures is a matter for another debate . |
| 22 | ‘ There was no real panic but when we landed and got off the plane the window looked like a spider 's web . |
| 23 | But when you go and lose three on the trot , it does n't look so clever . ’ |
| 24 | but when you come and sit here at night |
| 25 | But when you fold and roll it , the whole case slips into its own suede-effect drawstring bag — to measure a mere 21 ’ by 6 ’ by 3 ’ . |
| 26 | But when he attacks and threatens the Press , he is not doing it merely on his own behalf . |
| 27 | She was not very much surprised to see him on his feet and opening the door , but when he swayed and put a hand on the wall to steady himself she was unable to prevent her own hand going out towards him . |
| 28 | The night was cold and black but when he stopped and looked up between the black overhanging gables of the houses , he was pleased to see the clouds beginning to break up . |
| 29 | But when she married and moved to a distant part of the country , I decided it was the moment for me to change my life too . |
| 30 | He never liked the woman , but when she wept and begged him not to turn her out he weakened . |