Example sentences of "[adv] but [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 and you 'd fit them together but if it did n't fit you 'd have to do something to you 'd have to get them from som , from somewhere else .
2 Cos it wanted laying er now they 've put the rough stuff down but when they put it down they left er about say inch er drop you know so er if you ca n't see where you 're walking , especially strangers they 're gon na tipple over .
3 If you ha if you have n't had it rai if you have n't got a problem then fair enough but if you do get it raised as a problem , the confidentiality bit , then fair enough .
4 Well in really warm weather a T-shirt and shorts may be enough but as it gets colder so you need to add layers of sweaters , trousers and top the whole thing up with a wind and waterproof spray suit but all that can make you a little clumsy , so the answer for most British sailors is a wetsuit like the ones that you and Suzanne are wearing .
5 Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered .
6 Well we took our turn and we waited to go in but once we got in we broke away from the crowd and when they all came out and went to lunch in the town we did n't .
7 and it was in quite a big space , I could off got in behind him and then changed if I 'd reversed in but when I saw this other chap sat in his car and then he indicated he wanted to pull out , so I let him go
8 See money 's all right they probably love the money you can bring in but if they do n't see you to spend it or to share it .
9 Sorry to butt in but if anybody 's got a car parked at the back here , the warden 's taken all the .
10 It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits .
11 No it is n't , it is n't gon na away but when you go back to these figures we 've actually been working , if you wo if you accept that there 's been , there 's no change in our situation apart from auto-offs and units
12 hour away but if you have a breakdown , and Auntie Mary and she 'll get all worked up .
13 Place the colour key in the first two rows as described above but when you save the design to memory , miss out the first two rows , placing the save box to start on the third row of squares .
14 Yeah , that 's right well we 've got ta put them round anyway but once I 've got that on I can take the st steps in then no , I shall leave those there I 'll just go and have a look at the other frame .
15 they say that ad , it pays to advertise I mean , to me advertising has never done anything for me well I do n't think it has anyway but if it pays to advertise and look at the number of people that read the Express
16 anybody who does fancy it , just but if you fancy popping round my house Christmas morning
17 But they ( the French ) did not beat us physically but because we lost our cool … and there were worse problems , especially the lack of a leader .
18 He must have taken the bucket outside but when he returned Robyn was still struggling furiously with the unfamiliar catch .
19 And then Helena , Joanne and me would be sleeping over but because they 've got a dog I 'm not going to sleep !
20 Put the carpets , put everything in and er and we paid for it and they still go ad now course the national union 's taken it over but when we joined the national union there were two things that er I stipulated before we 'd join .
21 He did n't really care if she and Nick were happy or not but if he thought they had been happier at Druid 's Bottom than they were at his house , he might stop them going again .
22 We need to go on further still but before we do so a little breather for taking stock would seem appropriate .
23 It might be a bit awkward when you start off but once you 've done it a bit it gets easier .
24 You stand to risk frightening some men off but since you 've no hope of a future with them it does n't matter if you never see them again .
25 She managed to pull them off but as she drove down the street she was followed by a cacophony of tin cans tied to the bumper .
26 So they made home but whether he killed the man or not we never knew .
27 Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour .
28 We were going to once but when it came to it you did n't have the money for the licence .
29 it 's way down the I mean all these people go , Oh it 's people are n't using the english language properly but if you look at the english
30 For a start he 'd given up being a hippie , which must have been a relief to the Fish , not only professionally but because it meant the Fish could play Charlie soul records — Otis Redding and all — the only music he liked .
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