Example sentences of "but [adv] we [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was laughed at , but secretly we 'd say ‘ Oh God , they 're being stupid ’ . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But perhaps we shall soon have an answer to another question . ’ |
| 3 | Er admittedly they 'll all be available on the Saturday but perhaps we would need , you know , we 've perhaps a little bit more more work to be done . |
| 4 | But perhaps we might not go there again — for a while anyway . ’ |
| 5 | But perhaps we 'll forget about that now . |
| 6 | The stories compellingly challenge Western stereotypes of the Asian woman , but perhaps we should beware of reading them too closely in relation to the Western experience . |
| 7 | But perhaps we should apply a variant of this to pseudoscience : ‘ everything is possible if you do n't know what you are talking about ’ . |
| 8 | But perhaps we should be thankful to the Duchess . |
| 9 | But perhaps we should have faced it back then . |
| 10 | We could say simply " ( edited ) " but perhaps we should take the title page at its word and say instead " ( selection and arrangement ) " . |
| 11 | We can not force desire to take a shape it resists , but perhaps we can slowly remould it . |
| 12 | Some people complain about security , but perhaps we can all agree with the plea of the hon. Member for Belfast , East ( Mr. Robinson ) for a proactive rather than a reactive response . |
| 13 | But perhaps we could do something about it . |
| 14 | ‘ I can hardly wait , ’ he said drily , ‘ but perhaps we could leave it for a couple of years ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , yes , maybe , ’ said the same boy , ‘ but perhaps we need not have a teacher — perhaps we could have a proper person . ’ |
| 16 | If you say , ‘ Well , of course , yes , I can easily explain that , but basically we 'll transfer the the , the handling of the enquiry to A Department , which of course has responsibility to B , but B ca n't do that without C , ’ you have to know in your own organization that that 's the way the procedure works , but it will mean nothing to the listener . |
| 17 | Yes , the cases quoted are clear ones , in which carers have been in the home for a long time , but obviously we would wish to avoid a position in which the carer was in the home for a short time in the expectation that he or she would then be allowed to stay there . |
| 18 | If he ca n't afford a Solicitor and he feels he ought to be represented by a Solicitor , he may apply for Legal Aid , and of course it 's public money concerned so I suppose in an ideal society everybody would be legally assisted who wanted to be , but obviously we ca n't afford that as a country , so that erm generally erm his application would be judged according to certain criteria erm which would suggest perhaps he needed to be represented . |
| 19 | It 's certainly your case at the moment , but naturally we 'll work together , as we 've always done . |
| 20 | But already we can see one most unexpected and surprising consequence of this : if what we may call the phallic or Oedipal trauma came first in human cultural history and was the original event from which all else flowed , then in terms of individual psychosexual development it follows last , preceded by the oral stage whose cultural equivalent succeeded it ! |
| 21 | ‘ But normally we 'd use powerful diesel compressors . |
| 22 | Well I would n't er I do n't expect most things will completely but anyway we 'll see . |
| 23 | Er that but anyway we can we can organize that |
| 24 | Erm and that would alter the book but nevertheless we would want to say , what I did was to alter the book . |
| 25 | What they seem to be saying about outcomes of adoption is quite positive but nevertheless we should be warned that the heady days of ‘ no child is unadoptable ’ are in the past . |
| 26 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 27 | So but nevertheless we will look at a little bit at those peripheral things , but we 're going to concentrate mainly on the design and on the delivery of a presentation so that 's what we want to what we want to look at over the next two days . |
| 28 | but lately we ca n't |
| 29 | No hard and fast rules can be laid down but generally we will wish to impart minimum information to obtain maximum in return . |
| 30 | ‘ We do value our small business customers but generally we could avoid many problems if they did communicate more with us . ’ |