Example sentences of "but we [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this was in the 60s when high rise was so fashionable , but we managed not to have them in Washington . ’ |
| 2 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 3 | I was indeed rather dubious about the whole idea , but we had n't been getting very far and there seemed to be no harm in just finding out some more about it . |
| 4 | But we had n't seen him perform . |
| 5 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd done the Exhilarator course in the evening but we had n't found anything — except that Cawthorne does n't like women much , and blacks not at all . ’ |
| 7 | Erm we done a little but we had n't done that much yet , but my sister tells me as we go , as the year go on and do a bit more about it . |
| 8 | And he gets the jar cor she said that 's disgusting dad she said and he had course he blames all of us for having some but we had n't touched them . |
| 9 | She was nearly hysterical , with some reason if what she said about the Germans was true , but we had not seen Anna . |
| 10 | ‘ She lives near enough , ’ said Nancy thoughtfully , ‘ but we 've not seen one another for years . |
| 11 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 12 | But we 've not wilfully put at risk services or jobs by risking capping by going in the opposite direction . |
| 13 | We made the journey in three days ; we could have done it in two but we chose not to . |
| 14 | Neither my sister nor I can remember exactly what we had for dinner , but we chose not merely a good cheese but a claret of which we hoped he would approve . |
| 15 | Their chance would be diminishing as each hour goes by , but we have not reached the stage that we can confidently say there is nobody alive in that building . ’ |
| 16 | The media thinks we have gone quiet but we have not ’ . |
| 17 | But we have not done quite well enough . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Binstead , who says he has investigated many similar offers , none of which have produced loans , said : ‘ We are making inquiries , but we have not been able to establish whether these offers are going to come through . ’ |
| 19 | Thus we can use the existing research to help us find our empirical measures for the effects of client participation on effectiveness in social work , but we have not yet achieved our aim . |
| 20 | We have argued when argument was necessary ; but we have not wavered nor changed our views . |
| 21 | There has been quite a lot of trouble with 7.50 x 16 Avon Rangemaster with the steel tyre cords breaking through the tyre to puncture the tubes , but we have not come across this with the Avon Ranger . |
| 22 | But we have not . |
| 23 | But we have not yet arrived at the ‘ Fundamental Pedagogical Principle ’ . |
| 24 | The Soviet Union and China are not impossible , but we have not been successful there before . |
| 25 | But we have not lost sight of the important role to be played by considerations concerning range of vocabulary items , methods of syntactic combination , discreteness of signals , and the associated semantic possibilities . |
| 26 | But we have not yet reached any incest taboo . |
| 27 | Similarly , provision has been made to include heroes , but we have not specified that these should be Elector Counts , lesser nobles , military commanders , civic leaders , or whoever . |
| 28 | The rarity of short-wave cones is concordant with earlier estimates , using direct and indirect means of identifying these receptors , but we have not ourselves seen any indication that the short-wave cones occur as interruptions to the regular foveal matrix , as has sometimes been reported . |
| 29 | It is true , somehow , that a cause has a power in a sense that an effect does not , but we have not got that sense . |
| 30 | But we have not yet broached the explanation of these changes . |