Example sentences of "but we [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It probably wants it hyphenated but we 'll just say skip , if you 're happy with the spelling . |
| 2 | just one other cricket match , again I said in Hertfordshire , this one 's at Ashwall near Baldock , and their cricket club 's long way ahead in fact , but it 's erm , twenty first September , but we sha n't have time to talk about it before two o'clock and it 's in aid of the garden hospice at Letchworth , a very worthy cause that , and John Emburey 's taking a , a Middlesex eleven against the Cherubs who are the local team , John runs them down there , so that er , that is at Ashwall , two o'clock start twenty first September , have a look at John Emburey and his Middlesex eleven , all in a good , good cause , and the Cherubs watch them as well . |
| 3 | ‘ But we ca n't leave Gran in that place , ’ Miranda said . |
| 4 | We Brits may have invented cricket , tennis , football , rugby , golf , darts and bowls but we ca n't lay claim to baseball , ice hockey , American football , ten-pin bowling , rhythmic gymnastics , synchro swimming or sumo wrestling . |
| 5 | Ours is specially designed anti-pigeon netting but we would certainly take action if birds were getting caught in it . |
| 6 | Labour was the greatest input , but we must also remember manure , especially if the area was cropped annually . |
| 7 | But we must not confound motive with consideration . |
| 8 | But we must not let competitiveness be everything , and convey that view to our students ’ . |
| 9 | The name makes some sense as an enduring survival of bronze age Cretan influence , but we must not lose sight of the fact that it was Evans who gave the Minoan civilization its name and not the Minoans : they almost certainly called themselves something completely different . |
| 10 | With our present-day highly developed technologies , we can re-create many of the complex molecules found in nature , but we can not create life — another argument in favour of the existence of the life force or life energy , whatever it may be . |
| 11 | erm which we do , which we have n't got in stock at the moment , but we can always get hold of |
| 12 | But we can always have faith that we will rejoice in what is going to happen in the future . |
| 13 | Not only will your daughter be able to time home whenever she wishes , but we will also provide transport . ’ |
| 14 | It may cause damage to a part of the person but we should not lose sight of the whole person if we wish to understand what is going on . |
| 15 | It may be convenient to think of an arms race between two lineages such as cattle and grass , or gazelles and cheetahs , but we should never lose sight of the fact that both participants have other enemies against whom they are simultaneously running other arms races . |
| 16 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 17 | But we could only take care of little children ! |
| 18 | We could sell his story but we could never make money from other people 's suffering … ’ |