Example sentences of "but if you [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kill me if you like , but if you let me live , I 'll do what I can to save you when you 're arrested and brought to trial for piracy . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But if you tell me my players will perform well tonight , I 'll settle for that . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well I have n't heard the official report because I had to go to my board meeting , but if you ask me , Maggie 's dragon did it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But if you ask me , Ethel 's got something to do with it . |
| 5 | This is Piladu 's place , but if you ask me there 'll be nobody in at this hour on a Saturday . |
| 6 | But if you ask me , mate , the choice of colour Is scarcely right ; this red should have been duller . |
| 7 | No I think what it is I understand it now but if you ask me in a couple of weeks |
| 8 | I suppose I 'm feeling slightly sceptical about the situation , but if you ask me as blankly as that of course my immediate reaction , my old reaction would be ‘ but of course I feel confident about the future of British music ’ , you know , in my more sceptical mood now I still would say ‘ yes ’ , but not quite so enthusiastically as before . |
| 9 | But if you asked me how a motor car worked you would think me somewhat pompous if I answered in terms of Newton 's laws and the laws of thermodynamics , and downright obscurantist if I answered in terms of fundamental particles . |
| 10 | But if you had me on the table or on the trolley in intensive care — the submarine blip of the oscilloscope ( like a lost code ) , the richly sighing respirator-then I 'd be going , going , tumbling end over end . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't remember offhand where the section is but if you follow me we 'll find out . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ No problem , but if you want me in the village do n't you think I 'd better get some transport of my own ? |
| 13 | You ca n't do it ; but if you give me food and drink and a handkerchief to tie up my wound , I 'll tell you how to sail her . ’ |
| 14 | But if you give me a blank sheet of paper and put a question , I 'm not really gon na tell you what you should include and what you should n't , yeah ? |
| 15 | But if you leave me , he 'll kill me ! |