Example sentences of "us [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the time the train is carrying us slowly but surely up the French coast . |
| 2 | You do n't we were u we had to use the immersion did n't we cos w we moved in in the June and Lofty and Brian said well do n't have it done cos you 're not gon na use until August so we they did it August time for us so but we did n't use Servowarm cos it had blown up , they just disconnected it for us , so we used the ho the immersion heater |
| 3 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 4 | ROLL UP For girls that want to achieve the brilliant set looks which have been inspiring us lately but do n't want to roll their hair everyday , Zotos may have the answer . |
| 5 | It did n't affect us physically but the hands on my watch started to turn so fast they came off , and Derek 's digital watch went crazy . |
| 6 | But they ( the French ) did not beat us physically but because we lost our cool … and there were worse problems , especially the lack of a leader . |
| 7 | Valiant always got us home but I was never very happy about her performance in bad weather . |
| 8 | Only interviews with the prime suspects could enlighten us now but , instead , they served to confuse still further . |
| 9 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 10 | We were counting on her coming with us today but she 'd already made plans to meet some friends in Times Square . ’ |
| 11 | The few cottages that existed then may seem picturesque to us today but there were probably damp and unsanitary , with earth-packed floors . |
| 12 | Okay David , thanks very much indeed for your time and for talking to us today but er if you have a view on that you might like to give us a call . |
| 13 | Dickens deals with each one tremendously well , making relating his points of view to us subtly but strongly leaving a strong impact on the reader . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ It 's a major boost for us financially but what a sad , sorry business this has been . |
| 15 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |