Example sentences of "[verb] but [adv] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was held in with the present public excluded but now we seem to have a completely different situation . |
| 2 | We deserved to lead but then we sat back . ’ |
| 3 | For I have news of great moment to report , viz. that on Friday last by a night when the moon shone but weakly we had intelligence that our neighbours in this land were embarked upon a most fiendish and treacherous Enterprise , namely to do every man among us fatal harm while we were still sleeping in our beds . |
| 4 | Not only can cases be ranked but also we know the distances between the rankings . |
| 5 | Everybody I thought , accepted that in committee , I ca n't remember what the liberal democrats did but certainly we did and certainly all the members of the labour group . |
| 6 | but well sometimes we still do but sometimes we have something else instead do n't we ? |