Example sentences of "but [adv] we [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But mostly we develop our language by analogy . |
| 2 | You do n't have to make a firm commitment but obviously we like you to give us some idea of your availability . |
| 3 | And I find that extremely understandable , but nevertheless we felt it was necessary to say , ‘ Well , you know , it 's not right . |
| 4 | But somehow we missed it . |
| 5 | Lewis thinks he has a scoop , but once we let everyone know the truth then he 'll have nothing left to play around with . |
| 6 | WE MIGHT well be stirred by the sudden prospect of ruins , but once we knew them to be artificial our pleasure would evaporate , ’ wrote Kenneth Clark in his 1928 ‘ Gothic Revival ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ But whenever we left him in his cot and then went back to him , we 'd notice that he 'd made terrible scratches on his face with his fingernails and he would rip the backs of his legs with his toes . |
| 8 | I did n't see her often , but whenever we met she would complain gently that they never went anywhere because Derek was always so busy or the babbas were teething or undergoing the whooping cough . |
| 9 | But frankly we thought our case was pretty water-tight . |
| 10 | But now we know they 're just wolves in sheep 's clothing , no amount of money is going to keep them away . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We have had some good games against Wednesday , but now we fancy our chances against anyone at home . |
| 12 | But now we want them all shared out so instead of saying one remainder two we writ it like this now . |
| 13 | You know you did n't know before but now we have we have if you like . |
| 14 | ‘ We usually bring our own food and eat it in the park , ’ Tom said , ‘ but today we thought we 'd eat a proper meal in a cafe with you . ’ |
| 15 | Erm , we both had something to gain , but equally we had something to lose and maybe that 's the sort of things , we think about to change the cost . |
| 16 | More needs to be said about our conviction , but here we have something . |
| 17 | But here we have something very , very different . |
| 18 | but well sometimes we still do but sometimes we have something else instead do n't we ? |
| 19 | Circulation was down four percent , but overseas we increased our circulation by five percent and again in the U K in , in newspaper sales we held our market share . |
| 20 | But everywhere we dived there were jellyfish . |
| 21 | But then we developed it a bit further like we did with negative numbers . |
| 22 | But then we asked him a bit more about it and he made his fatal mistake . |
| 23 | And we pushed her all round the pool but then we bought her a ring , just a ring nice little one an she 's fine in that . |
| 24 | I mean , maybe maybe that 's but then we have something not un er un unkin to that which is er , a traditional Burns night . |
| 25 | Well I explained to her and I said we bou took it home I said and it it wo n't go I said , but unfortunately we have you know throw the the ticket away . |
| 26 | A lot of the points she raises I would raise myself , I would see as areas that we , we can be tackling , but how we tackle them , you know , I , I , again , I would endorse what said erm , we 'll go back to and say right , now , you 've highlighted some issues , now , how do we do it in practice ? |
| 27 | It is not fear that impedes us , but how we handle our fears . |
| 28 | Then when we came out we s went around London to see the sights but the decorations but why we went I did n't think anything to them at all this year . |
| 29 | The heart not only explains what we do , but why we do it . |
| 30 | Room temperature is around about three hundred kelvins , but why we call it absolute is it , erm the lowest temperature one could ever get to is in fact designated as zero . |