Example sentences of "but we have never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liza and I had wanted to go into the big shops in New Street and Corporation Street for ages but we 'd never dared to pass the attendant who stood in the doorway ready to shoo small children off . |
| 2 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 3 | Lorne and I had often visited this particular cave in an attempt to film the Celebes Macaque , a baboon-sized monkey unique to the island , which nested in the giant tree which grew from it , but we had never thought of actually venturing inside . |
| 4 | ‘ But we 've never gone looking for trouble . |
| 5 | ‘ We did a tour with Mitch and we also did a tour with Buddy Miles , but we 've never had the two of them in the same room together . |
| 6 | I love Colin dearly but we 've never even discussed marriage . |
| 7 | It 's important to take a case just to try , but we 've never won such a case yet . |
| 8 | We are but we 've never been formally trained in them . |
| 9 | ‘ But we 've never done it before . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But we 've never changed out attitudes towards our audience , so it 's all down to their approach to us . |
| 11 | But we 've never managed to get hold of any real evidence against him . |
| 12 | But we 've never heard of it since . |
| 13 | ‘ We have slept together a few times , ’ she said , ‘ but we 've never done it during school hours . |
| 14 | I would n't mind but we 've never had dirty people in this close before . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But we 've never changed out attitudes towards our audience , so it 's all down to their approach to us . |
| 16 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 17 | ‘ Export is a nightmare because of the paperwork and expense of transporting the pottery , but we 've never had it so good up here and Easter Ross is really no further from Tokyo than London . ’ |
| 18 | But we 've never followed it in such an organized way , or with such great commitment . ’ |
| 19 | But we 've never had that here . |
| 20 | right , but we 've never covered all this see , you 've picked bits up as you 've gone along and another thing you should never give a choice of something and nothing you should always give a choice of something and something else |
| 21 | Jack and Pauline had been er but we 've never er ventured to it . |
| 22 | It looks as if there is a walk down there but we 've never been on it but tell you where you may be thinking of , you may be thinking of that walk that goes towards the erm adventure park at the other side of Buckfastleigh . |
| 23 | But we 've never listened to the answering machine . |
| 24 | But we 've never quite had to do that . |
| 25 | But we 've never really eaten that much frozen food anyway . |
| 26 | ‘ But we have never known him . |
| 27 | ‘ But we have never made door to door collections , so we know this man has nothing to do with us , ’ she said . |