Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if they disobeyed or tried to escape they would be shot out of hand . |
| 2 | but if they did and |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But if I sympathize and help , or gloat and take opportunities to add to his difficulties , in neither case with any prospect of advantage to myself , you can be sure that I am indeed aware of how he feels . |
| 7 | But if I gu an I am searched , dat is what I hate |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish I could go myself but if she complains and London hears about it they 'll put a stop on me doing anything . |
| 10 | Mind you the title was a bit funny because it did n't Almost an Angel but if he died and he went to heaven , then he must have been an angel but came back down , he 's still an angel . |
| 11 | But if you try and go back to it , when you have n't done it for years , you realize how complicated it was . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | But if you went and called . ’ |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | But if you go and ask Executive , they might give you money , cos they 're kinder in there . |
| 16 | But if you go and look down in your statements now just to check that ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Your doctor would send you an appointment , but if you move or do not hear , please contact your doctor or clinic and arrange for a further smear . |
| 20 | One shopkeeper , who wished to remain anonymous , said : ‘ People around here are worried about things like this but if you complain and ICI close the place down what happens then . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I am not saying they 're all pussycats but if you love and respect them , they will return those qualities tenfold . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 26 | It 's supposed to clarify and illuminate the argument , but if it confuses and muddies it , so much the better . |
| 27 | But like he said and yo and your bill , your receipt and I 've forgo I 've lost the bloody receipt ! |
| 28 | But unless we restructure and modernise , declining global competitiveness will have social and regional costs which are equally — high but even longer-lasting . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |