Example sentences of "but [conj] you [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These Christmas Day menus sound pretty average , but if you eat everything on the list you will have tucked away 5,472 calories by bedtime — around three times as much as a manual worker needs , and four times as much as an office worker 's requirements . |
| 2 | But if you hear her on a if you hear her on a tape recorder she is . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Ca n't get you a girl , but if you get her into trouble I 'll see it 's all right . ’ |
| 8 | It is available in kit form ; but if you get one for Christmas the joke is probably at your expense . |
| 9 | But if you regard yourself as an experienced dBase user , if you have dBase files and you want to major on your dBase knowledge , dBase remains your best bet . |
| 10 | No I think what it is I understand it now but if you ask me in a couple of weeks |
| 11 | I mean , I knew what was going to happen when I started the exercise , but if you contemplate it from a teacher 's point of view , if I go out and commit suicide or break down you 'll know why , wo n't you . |
| 12 | But if you put somebody in there who and and they become disassociated with the people |
| 13 | that helps them , but if you put them on radiators and God knows what round the house trying to keep them , get them dry |
| 14 | But if you put something like a wall with a slit in it in the way of the particle , the particle paths can spread out beyond the slit . |
| 15 | Yeah but if you put it in the dark it goes all starry . |
| 16 | But if you had me on the table or on the trolley in intensive care — the submarine blip of the oscilloscope ( like a lost code ) , the richly sighing respirator-then I 'd be going , going , tumbling end over end . |
| 17 | But if you borrow it from a in er mortgage company , you 're gon na , you 're gon na borrow twice that , you gon na have to pay twice that much back . |
| 18 | If you thrash a horse it will hurt but if you touch it with a whip it 's a tactile thing which is far less than a horse nudging another one |
| 19 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 20 | But if you employ someone in your house , you want them to do it your way , not theirs . ’ |
| 21 | Boring work , but if you want one for the glass case , this is the best way to go about achieving that aim . |
| 22 | ‘ No problem , but if you want me in the village do n't you think I 'd better get some transport of my own ? |
| 23 | But if you read it in the way the UK does , you might catch only five or ten projects a year . ’ |
| 24 | And I 'll see you again next week , but if you need anything in the meantime give me a ring will you ? |
| 25 | But if you leave it on the back of the paper it slowly dries out and turns bright yellow , staining the paper in the process . |
| 26 | but if you leave it to somebody else well you never done . |
| 27 | ‘ You can watch so much stuff on the TV and forget it , but if you watch something like Plan 9 From Outer Space there 's something about it slightly missing the mark that just becomes remarkable . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah but if you do it above board I ca n't see |
| 29 | But if you do it in twenty three you 're talking about doing |
| 30 | You can use paper of similar thickness but unless you stick it in some way to the faces it is difficult to keep it in position when assembling the cores into the bobbin and bolting it down to the board . |