Example sentences of "but if you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But if ye do not have self-control , let ye marry , for it is better to marry than to burn . ’ ’ |
| 2 | Faithful be ye , I know well , and power ye have if ye list to keep them safe ; but if ye think I fear too much , yet beware ye fear not too little ! ’ |
| 3 | Yeah you can but if you land on |
| 4 | It is n't wrong to feel angry , but if you let it out in ways like this , the distress will increase for both of you , and you risk losing more than the chance to be a mother . |
| 5 | That 's right , most people with epilepsy they 're much better if they go to sleep and you do n't wake them up , if you wake the person up from a sleep that 's just had an epileptic fit they 'll be vomiting , but if you let them sleep through it then erm , then they 're usually fine . |
| 6 | Kill me if you like , but if you let me live , I 'll do what I can to save you when you 're arrested and brought to trial for piracy . ’ |
| 7 | If you do it 'll keep moving for years and years and years no problem , but if you let the two of them sit |
| 8 | But if you let it lie it manures it you see . |
| 9 | But if you let it stall on you |
| 10 | Giving up fruit may make you concerned about Vitamin C deficiency , but if you eat sufficient quantities of fresh vegetables this should not be a problem . |
| 11 | These Christmas Day menus sound pretty average , but if you eat everything on the list you will have tucked away 5,472 calories by bedtime — around three times as much as a manual worker needs , and four times as much as an office worker 's requirements . |
| 12 | But if you contribute to the world 's culture , if you have a good idea , compose a tune , invent a sparking plug , write a poem , it may live on , intact , long after your genes have dissolved in the common pool . |
| 13 | round the barrel about three times round the barrel then right down into the chain locker but if you kept , let it ride what we used to call let it ride well well now it get so big then you have to run it all off cos you had one lever , that 's what you had and the steam valve could have all steamed . |
| 14 | But if you hear him speak for five minutes you think no more of them . |
| 15 | But if you hear her on a if you hear her on a tape recorder she is . |
| 16 | Blencowe responded , ‘ … let him spoil on ; he has a pleasure in thinking he earns his daily bread at four score years and ten ; but if you turn him off , he will soon die with grief ’ [ Baker , 1 , 639 ] . |
| 17 | While high pay is not a myth , it is not as high as is generally supposed — but if you turn into a super advertising star , the sky 's the limit . |
| 18 | Here , I brought some American magazines — trash , but gorgeous — and some blissful eau-de-Cologne to bathe your pallid brow and drown out the Dettol — some grapes — corny , I know , but if you turn your nose up at them , I 'll eat them , in fact I probably will anyway . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Badly paced , with a familiar climax ( The Silence Of The Lambs meets Cape Fear ) , but if you stay awake look out for the relatively complex treatment of the IRA early on , the Gulf War references and Sean Bean 's sunglasses |
| 21 | Your way will eventually be blocked by a stone dyke , but if you stay near the burn you 'll find a gap . |
| 22 | But if you stay you need a job … |
| 23 | No , but if you stay sitting down |
| 24 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 25 | ‘ But if you made a bad decision , or gave the wrong judgement against someone in a dispute , then some of your people might suffer . ’ |
| 26 | But if you made a list of the things that are known about Matthew , it would be very short : first , he was one of the twelve apostles ; second , he had been a tax-collector ; third , when he was converted , he gave a party for all his old friends ; fourth , there is a gospel which has his name on it . |
| 27 | But if you made it law that the breweries would lose their retail outlet and the publican and barman would lose their licences , you 'd soon find they make time and make staff check up to see if people were drunk . |
| 28 | Very little very few apprentices were sacked unless through misdemeanour or anything but if you done your work you were there to as long as you you liked . |
| 29 | But if you use your Deed of Covenant form every £1 you give becomes £1.33 — so your gift can work even harder . |
| 30 | These are delicious by themselves , but if you use them for Devils on Horseback ( see p112 ) your cocktail party will surely be an enormous success . |