Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't really get pocket money but if I see something in the shops in , in , this toy or something my mum , mum 'll buy it for me and say that 's your pocket money for this week . |
| 2 | But if she says something to me about it I mean if she says something to me about it I 'm not gon na act surprised I 'll say oh yeah I 've heard . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is available in kit form ; but if you get one for Christmas the joke is probably at your expense . |
| 5 | But if you put somebody in there who and and they become disassociated with the people |
| 6 | But if you put something like a wall with a slit in it in the way of the particle , the particle paths can spread out beyond the slit . |
| 7 | But if you employ someone in your house , you want them to do it your way , not theirs . ’ |
| 8 | Boring work , but if you want one for the glass case , this is the best way to go about achieving that aim . |
| 9 | And I 'll see you again next week , but if you need anything in the meantime give me a ring will you ? |
| 10 | ‘ You can watch so much stuff on the TV and forget it , but if you watch something like Plan 9 From Outer Space there 's something about it slightly missing the mark that just becomes remarkable . ’ |
| 11 | In many other cases it may be difficult to decide whether a signal is or is not deceptive ; but if the signal concerns something over which the animals are competing , it may evolve by an arms race of deception and the discovery of deception ; but if it concerns something over which the animals are co-operating , it may evolve to become more accurately informative . |
| 12 | Stories are recorded not simply because they happened , but because they reveal something of God and his activity in the world . |
| 13 | Towards the end of the story , Gowie does start to become much nicer — not because of people threatening him , but because he meets somebody with a stronger personality who wants to be his friend . |
| 14 | But because he accepts something from the philosophers ' view , a view which leads to scepticism , he himself runs the risk of it . |
| 15 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |