Example sentences of "but [conj] we [verb] see [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The woman said her lodgings were rather difficult to find , but if we go to see her after the show , she 'll arrange for a member of the company to escort us there . ’
2 They said that another friend would look after her , but when we went to see her a month later , she looked absolutely awful , in a field all on her own and full of worms .
3 These enormous questions beset us all at various stages of life , but as we have seen they can be particularly problematical for older people .
4 The government did not accept fully these recommendations but as we have seen they gave councillors the choice between claiming an attendance allowance or financial loss allowance .
5 Thus a crack two microns deep has twice the surface energy of a crack one micron deep but as we have seen it releases four times as much strain energy .
6 Edinburgh had practically no textile workers , men or women ; but as we have seen it had a great many domestic servants .
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