Example sentences of "but [conj] they [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if they disobeyed or tried to escape they would be shot out of hand . |
| 2 | No I think , I reckon that if you knew that the bloke was an easy pull , they would n't do it if they , if they knew they could n't get the girl cos otherwise it would be embarrassing for them , but if they knew that she was an easy pull they 'd do it for a joke . |
| 3 | He had supported Pennethorne 's design because it was the cheapest and did not encroach on the park , but if they abandoned that design they were bound to take the first prize design , ‘ but as there was some difficulty about that ’ , it should go to the second prize-winners . |
| 4 | Only the wealthier trusts could afford his standards , but if they did so they purchased a road good for more than a century . |
| 5 | but if they did and |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But if they leave that record out , suddenly the playlist is ‘ unfair , monstrous and corrupt ’ . |
| 8 | The Gods , in his opinion , chase after ‘ Daphne ’ and ‘ Syrinx ’ not because they were women but because they anticipated that they would turn into trees . |
| 9 | But the claims of programmes must be scrutinized carefully , not because they offer wrong answers but because they assume that there are answers . |
| 10 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 11 | Socialists and feminists oppose this move , not only because it enables landlords to evict tenants easily and raise rents , but because they recognise that the demise of this sector is , broadly speaking , a result of the decreasing profitability of investment in this sector ( Merrett , 1979 , p.281 ) , not of legislation concerning rent control and tenants ' rights . |
| 12 | They have taken this position not because they are resistant to change , but because they believe that these proposals will politicise the British Police Service and they are in my view entirely right to have that view . |
| 13 | Not just because of who he is , but because they think that he understands and cares , and may be able to intercede . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But before they emerge as adults they have a rather longer incarnation as larvae walking about the river bottom . |
| 16 | Bernadette Devlin recalled that in its early stages ‘ the whole thing had a sort of good-natured holiday atmosphere ’ , but when they realised that the police had re-routed the march |
| 17 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |
| 18 | They went into hiding immediately after , but when they heard that a warrant had been issued for their arrest , Waddell told Gentle he was going to give himself up . |
| 19 | ‘ I had n't expected the papers to pick up on Thomas 's birth , ’ she went on , ‘ but when they did and when it was taken for granted that he was Simon 's I let that be , too . ’ |
| 20 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |
| 21 | No but when they say when they say i it 's twenty twenty below , it 's twenty below that zero there , see there 's ten |
| 22 | That 's the thing a man has , only a man 's is bigger : he kisses you , you 've seen people kissing , of course you have , but when they kiss when nobody else is looking , the man puts it inside you . ’ |
| 23 | This may at first be simple ‘ draw writing ’ but as they develop and learn more about how written language works , their writing comes increasingly close to standard adult systems . |