Example sentences of "but if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's not the point , if Terry said something really stupid I would say ‘ Terry , that was a really stupid thing to say ’ , but if he said ‘ Hello Mark how y'doing ? ’ |
| 2 | Some 300 people lost their jobs when Supercomputer Systems failed ; Chen had hoped to re-hire about 50 of them , but if he goes elsewhere , not many of those are likely to be offered positions . |
| 3 | mm but if he goes , he 's going for the month ? |
| 4 | ‘ If I find favour in the eyes of the Lord , he will bring me back and let me see both it and his habitation ; but if he says , ‘ I have no pleasure in you , ’ behold , here I am , let him do to me what seems good to him' ( 2 Sam . |
| 5 | But if he says I 'm sorry , I have n't got the equipment we then have to go outside |
| 6 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |
| 7 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 8 | Doubtless he paid a price for that , too , in the misery that darkened his later life , but if he had not felt that misery he could never have created the works he did . |
| 9 | Fourth , if , having acted according to these principles , he were subsequently challenged regarding the lawfulness of his conduct , the doctor would have the benefit of the defence of necessity if he had intervened , but if he had not intervened , he would not thereby be in breach of his duty to his patient . |
| 10 | But if he had no bill and or did n't pick it up , you 'd tell the proprietor that he must take his own proceedings — he 's swindled you out of the price of a meal and it 's a civil action . |
| 11 | But if he had a Christian past , it was not apparent in his dress : the crimson hat with the kerchief wound lightly about it , or the striped Tartar tunic with its oblique seam , or the coat he wore open over it , its buttons of gold , and the pious inscription of the tirâz embroidered in gold on its sleeve . |
| 12 | ‘ But if he had wanted to disappear with the diamonds , ’ she persisted , ‘ we 'd still be looking for him now . ’ |
| 13 | But if he had , indeed , been murdered then the secrets would be told ; through his dead body , through the intimate detritus of his life , through the mouths , truthful , treacherous , faltering , reluctant of his family , his enemies , his friends . |
| 14 | But if he had first dropped the razor , why should it be lying on top of the blanket and so conveniently close to his hand as if it had slipped from the opening fingers ? |
| 15 | But if he had to go he would go alone . |
| 16 | But if he had nothing to do with the kidnapping of that girl it seemed to be too much of a coincidence that he should have appeared just then . |
| 17 | The young man was claimed to be ‘ abundantly capable of the office ’ , but if he had any experience which might justify his placement in a supervisory post , it was not mentioned . |
| 18 | He attended Germaine Greer 's first feminist lecture , but if he had a connection with the ferment of drugs , ‘ sexual politics ’ and revolutionary doo-da which was stewing amid the spires , it was probably distant and reserved . |
| 19 | The American woman watched him intently for several minutes , a commotion of half-forgotten sensations stirring within her , but if he had noticed her presence he gave no sign . |
| 20 | But if he had wept his soul away , it would have made no difference ; so he mounted his horse and rode on . |
| 21 | But if he had been murdered ? |
| 22 | But if he had been in the water for some time , it was unlikely that he had been killed at the spot where his body had fetched up , and equally unlikely that the weapon which killed him was there to find . |
| 23 | This would certainly have been within the power of an omnipotent being , but if he had started it off in such an incomprehensible way , why did he choose to let it evolve according to laws that we could understand ? |
| 24 | But if he had tried to dupe the wily Bobby Anscombe as easily as the innocent Malcolm Harris , it was no wonder that he had come unstuck . |
| 25 | but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years . |
| 26 | But if he killed Harry , would n't you expect a greater amount of soaking ? ’ |
| 27 | Mr Parkinson can turn his back on all this but if he decides to confront it , road pricing is one of the few tools at his disposal . |
| 28 | But if he decides to go the Hollywood route , he may not have a choice . |
| 29 | But if he decides for Mrs. McLoughlin , then he has intervened in Mr. O'Brian 's life even though the latter was not warned that this would happen . |
| 30 | ‘ Certainly promises were made when Michael Knighton came to the club and doubts have now been cast on his ability to fulfil these , but if he does everything he has said who is to complain ? ’ |