Example sentences of "but [subord] they [verb] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if they did n't speak with tongues how did Simon know that they had received the Holy Spirit ? |
| 2 | The game desperately needs a strong Leeds but if they do n't stop the rot soon they can say goodbye to a top eight place , let alone the top four . |
| 3 | Can something , but if they do n't do something which is suggested |
| 4 | I suppose TV companies could potentially show both matches if they were on different nights , but if they do n't matter who 's gon na watch two nights of essentially meaningless football ? ( this of course is only true of the last couple of rounds of qualification ) . |
| 5 | If they think I 'm pretty , that 's nice , I 'm complimented ; but if they do n't think I am , I have n't put myself on the line . |
| 6 | He says no , but if they do n't pay there wo n't be a church or a vicar . |
| 7 | Well what 's happening is it the , during the war , right , we 're constraining the computer to estimate , like a single coefficient that is applicable to both war and peacetime er is n't the case , right , th there is a structural change , right , so when th when we constrain the computer to estimate the coefficients throughout the whole period , right , the coefficients are biased but if they do n't apply either to the post er pre war peacetime sample neither do they er fit very well to the data during the wartime , right , if we allow the intercept to change but we 're getting much better estimates both wartime and peacetime er parameter 's okay because we have n't got rid of , we 've got rid of that bias , right , in constraining the parameters to fit both wartime and peacetime er time periods . |
| 8 | I mean we might have an order three hundred but if they do n't need any it just shows zero so we 're we 're stuck . |
| 9 | Because it 's , the school children go in there as well you see and that 's a little bit of a worry but , but if they do n't use it it 'd be alright . |
| 10 | But if they do n't like hill life — and many do n't — they 're beaten and tortured for attempting to return . |
| 11 | if they look as though they need it they need it but if they do n't look as though they need watering do n't water them . |
| 12 | See money 's all right they probably love the money you can bring in but if they do n't see you to spend it or to share it . |
| 13 | Yeah see there 's , they 're alright , but if they do n't fill it you do n't go |
| 14 | But because they do n't say it to my face , it does n't mean to say I do n't still get them : now they say things behind my back . |
| 15 | If they knew that the unemployment rates were twenty or thirty percent in urban areas that they would n't migrate but because they do n't have that information that 's , that 's the reason . |
| 16 | There was little recognition of the fact that Labour lost not because they changed but because they did n't change enough . |
| 17 | Not because you were bad but because they did n't want to pay any more money . |
| 18 | But when they did n't pay up the bridegroom 's mother , Cara White , whose firm handled the catering , sued the Smiths , of Cranwell , Lincs . |
| 19 | In Athens , where I was competing alongside Nigel Walker and Lesley-Ann Skeet , two of our best hurdlers , I noticed some spots appearing here and there on my body , but as they did n't bother me , I ignored them . |