Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 2 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | that helps them , but if you put them on radiators and God knows what round the house trying to keep them , get them dry |
| 5 | Sensations of white , for instance , are classed together , not because we can take them to pieces , and say they are alike in this , and not alike in that , but because we feel them to be alike altogether , though in different degrees . |
| 6 | Hincmar puts in a significant phrase when he says that the minores who " confirmed " assembly-decisions did so " not because they were forced to do so , but because they understood them in their own minds and agreed with them " . |
| 7 | He and Stephanie both always won Kim 's game , the objects on a tray , but whereas she remembered them for their quiddity , naming and denoting them in language in her mind , he did it with a geometrical map and total spatial recall . |
| 8 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 9 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 10 | I 'm sick of all these people making great music , but when you put them on stage , they ca n't hack it , I think that 's pretty weak . |
| 11 | It was difficult to see what she was offering at first but as I took them from her I saw they were credit cards , an Access and a Visa , both made out in the name of Mrs J. A. Scamp . |