Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although he aimed it at Nicholas , it fired into the air , for the boy knocked it sideways and held it . |
| 2 | We would prefer to go back but if we close it for good it would be far better to have no Timex in Dundee than a Timex with scab labour earning scab wages and working under scab conditions . ’ |
| 3 | But if we want it as a function , right , I give you this person 's name is Sophie say , and she maps to her father . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not going to worry about it now , ’ said Pam , resolutely , ‘ but if they leave it like last time , I 'll kill them . ’ |
| 5 | If I snatch your hat from your head with intent to steal it , that is conversion as well as trespass , but if I throw it at another person , that is trespass only , for I am not questioning your title to it . |
| 6 | But if I pull it off it 'll tear . |
| 7 | ‘ But if I win it at least I will be stopping Ayrton Senna — and that is my way of helping Alain to win the title . ’ |
| 8 | Gary 's great strength was an ability to get to a ball first in the penalty area , but if he received it at his feet 30 yards from goal he was looking for help , to lay it off and get into the penalty area . |
| 9 | But if he gets it into his head that you 're a spy … . |
| 10 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 11 | Hydrogen sulphate sodium hydroxide swap them round sodium sulphate hydrogen hydroxide hy we never say hydrogen hydroxide it 's simpler to say water but if you write it as H O H then you think , Ah we 've got the two Hs and the O there . |
| 12 | But what we ca n't , it 's absolutely but if you write it in all the other divisions have got to do it as well . |
| 13 | But if you claim it in your own right you 'll be classed as independent , no longer dependant on you therefore you he is n't your dependant any longer . |
| 14 | I mean , I knew what was going to happen when I started the exercise , but if you contemplate it from a teacher 's point of view , if I go out and commit suicide or break down you 'll know why , wo n't you . |
| 15 | Yeah but if you put it in the dark it goes all starry . |
| 16 | But if you borrow it from a in er mortgage company , you 're gon na , you 're gon na borrow twice that , you gon na have to pay twice that much back . |
| 17 | If you thrash a horse it will hurt but if you touch it with a whip it 's a tactile thing which is far less than a horse nudging another one |
| 18 | But if you read it in the way the UK does , you might catch only five or ten projects a year . ’ |
| 19 | But if you leave it on the back of the paper it slowly dries out and turns bright yellow , staining the paper in the process . |
| 20 | but if you leave it to somebody else well you never done . |
| 21 | Yeah but if you do it above board I ca n't see |
| 22 | But if you do it in twenty three you 're talking about doing |
| 23 | You can use paper of similar thickness but unless you stick it in some way to the faces it is difficult to keep it in position when assembling the cores into the bobbin and bolting it down to the board . |
| 24 | But my strongest surviving impression is of a large team of teachers , several of them coming specifically to Banbury to undertake this work and now scattered in headships across the country , determined to carry change through — not because it was imposed by politicians or bureaucrats , but because they believed it to be right and wanted it to work well . |
| 25 | I said well I , he said still thought you were gon na do the bar with wood but since you put it like this if you had a te a tin of beans , would you know which one made you fart ! |
| 26 | But whether they do it on a Saturday I do n't know . |
| 27 | But when they teach it at school that 's wrong . |
| 28 | But when we took it over the , one of the first things we did was to redesign the kitchen because the soup was made in these great boiler and it was probably heated up every day of the week and can imagine what it would be like being in prison . |
| 29 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 30 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |