Example sentences of "but if [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so with the help of these , they just managed to do a bit of slate , but if them had not gone back , I thinks this this strike would have turned the other way . |
| 2 | He is generic because it is unmarked , but if we ask why it is unmarked we are told , because it is generic . |
| 3 | It seems obvious enough that ‘ language teachers ’ — the phrase used by foreign language teachers to describe themselves — need to know about ‘ language ’ but if we rephrase the formulation what we in fact have are French teachers who speak French , German teachers who speak German and so on . |
| 4 | But if we get caught , our lives can be traumatically affected . |
| 5 | But if we get a bit of growth , they 'll be ready to take the risk . |
| 6 | Well we could , but if we get too many we can go into business selling them or something . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll fight them , but if we get your ship back for you , you must take me back to England . ’ |
| 8 | But if we get you an appointment to see Georgina one morning at your convenience , so we can rattle those off |
| 9 | But if we get , we , it seemed to me I mean Deborah raised it and I think there is a way of doing it , which would be for example erm looking at the agreements , how many schools have got agreements ? |
| 10 | It seems a bit odd to be asking people to join the CTC in order to further the interests of cycling in Scotland ; but if we get this leaflet off the ground we can then tell HQ what we are doing for them . |
| 11 | overall certainly if they 've got children , but if we get above thirty , forty thousand a year , it 'll take more the other people who 've gained so much |
| 12 | But if we get them to sit down and actually do the cycle you know , so they do it |
| 13 | Erm , yeah we , we did take direct action and so eventually the ad was dropped , but if we 'd just complained and not taken any action the ad would n't have been dropped . |
| 14 | She was ambitious , and I liked that — but if we 'd been married her ambitions and mine would have clashed at every turn . ’ |
| 15 | But if we 'd been my family |
| 16 | Yeah but if we 'd then gone in to re-present |
| 17 | But if we act as if we belong to Jesus Christ then we shall be seen to have that plus and others will be attracted to Jesus Christ through us . |
| 18 | ‘ But if we avoid a slump in the second half of the season we should do it . ’ |
| 19 | But if we change our own scarcity belief , so that money flows more freely into our own lives , we have reduced — by one — the number of people in the world who struggle over money ; and we might choose to use some of our wealth to help others — not out of guilt , but out of love . |
| 20 | Naive teenagers we may have been , but if we had found it we would have been heroes . |
| 21 | But if we had not been advancing properly — being there just ahead of the main party to iron out any difficulties — the result could have been a very serious error in terms of local coverage , with potentially unhappy consequences . |
| 22 | I think he had a little corner in his heart for me but if we had got together and he had gone off with someone else I could n't have stood the hurt and humiliation . |
| 23 | The ‘ heroic lays , which the Beowulf -poet knew and alluded to sound very fine from his allusions , but if we had them we might discover that the fascination came from his art , not theirs . |
| 24 | I 'd like 87 punters in our band , but if we had that many , we would n't be able to carry on our caviar and cocaine lifestyle . |
| 25 | But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago . |
| 26 | Naturally , they are worried that the Queen 's head may disappear from our currency , but if we had economic and monetary union , as we have with Scotland , nothing would stop us providing different notes , even with a different name , provided that they had fixed values that were easily exchangeable . |
| 27 | You bozos do n't seem to realise it but if we had n't been there at that Florence Conference , would not be in the leading position it currently holds with the commission to guarantee further funds and to create a positive role for Britain in Europe with the commission to wuk look at the issues that are gon na come up in 1993 . |
| 28 | But if we had that aim in mind exclusively , we would choose a different theory of adjudication , which we might call " unilateral conventionalism " or just " unilateralism . " |
| 29 | But if we had not had this event we would n't have had those problems.Its the issue of New Age Travellers and illegal parties that produce what you saw last night . ’ |
| 30 | We ca n't implement it unilaterally , but if we had reciprocation it could be negotiated upon . ’ |