Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [vb past] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if they suspected you of double-crossing them , that could be a different story . |
| 2 | But if they gave you a toy made in Japan , you wondered . ’ |
| 3 | It does n't sound like much , but if someone told you those were your odds of winning the lottery , you 'd buy a ticket , would n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | But if someone loved you , how could they treat you so cruelly ? |
| 5 | ‘ Look , I know that one should n't mix business with pleasure , but if I asked you again , would you come out with me ? ’ |
| 6 | When his father remonstrated with him and refused to believe that the respectable staff of the Sunday School had put any such nonsense in his head , the wee boy protested : ‘ But if I told you what we did learn about Moses and the Red Sea , you 'd never believe me . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But if I told you that Harvey borrowed two paperback books from me last night . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't know what line Peter gave you , but if he told you far-fetched stories about his inheritance he omitted one thing . |
| 9 | Imagine your response if , when you were depositing funds in a building society account , your attention was drawn to the fact that if you died only the original investment would be returned , but if you lived you would keep all of the interest . |
| 10 | But if you hammered you had to careful to miss the joints : the felloes were dowelled together and if you hit one of the joints the wrong way , the dowel was certain to break . |
| 11 | But if you wanted you could ? |
| 12 | ‘ But if you did you 'd have someone to help with your problems ! |
| 13 | I got it all right , but like I told you , it was n't a maid 's job . |
| 14 | Oh , they 'd told me , but until I saw you I could n't believe it . |
| 15 | I used to , I think , but since I met you and saw what she was likely to turn into , I seem to have gone off her . |
| 16 | That 's why I crawl down holes and chuck myself off cliffs and ride the bike — it 's been the only way I could feel alive , but since I met you I 've come alive in other ways , ways I 'd forgotten long ago . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sorry , David , but when they knew you were at Conway House , that decided the matter . ’ |
| 18 | All right , my silence was a mistake , ’ she said hastily , when he frowned , ‘ but when I told you you might not have accepted that Thomas is yours . ’ |
| 19 | But when I saw you that first time in the garden , I most certainly wanted you , My Cassie . |
| 20 | ‘ I know it 's too late now and that it — it does n't make any difference , ’ she said raggedly , ‘ but when I saw you again I knew that I loved you , too . |
| 21 | But when I saw you tonight , working so desperately to save lives and help people , I knew exactly how deeply and hopelessly I do love you . |
| 22 | But when I believed you and came to live with you , he came back ! |
| 23 | I did in fact attempt to return your telephone call , but when I rang you were out , and our current panic ( we 're in the throes of mounting our summer exhibition ) prevented me from getting back to you before your letter reached me . |
| 24 | But when I found you 'd run away from me again , it nearly sent me crazy . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I realised that you definitely did n't want to merge and I would have accepted that , but when you said you hated me — ’ he paused ‘ — well , that hit me hard . |
| 26 | But when he loved you , he gave his love completely . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm a happily married man , but as I told you , I 've had to compromise . |
| 28 | But as i told you before , when the council started preparing for Hitler , in when I went on the council work in nineteen thirty six I had to fill the ditches in there . |
| 29 | But as I warned you , I have never worked with keys before . ’ |
| 30 | but as she said you if you make twenty arrangements and you sell half of them you just about break even with the flowers you 've bought to do them . |