Example sentences of "but [subord] we [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm sorry but where we went it was great |
| 2 | But so we got it there . |
| 3 | But if we get them to sit down and actually do the cycle you know , so they do it |
| 4 | ‘ We 'll fight them , but if we get your ship back for you , you must take me back to England . ’ |
| 5 | But if we get you an appointment to see Georgina one morning at your convenience , so we can rattle those off |
| 6 | But if we change our own scarcity belief , so that money flows more freely into our own lives , we have reduced — by one — the number of people in the world who struggle over money ; and we might choose to use some of our wealth to help others — not out of guilt , but out of love . |
| 7 | The ‘ heroic lays , which the Beowulf -poet knew and alluded to sound very fine from his allusions , but if we had them we might discover that the fascination came from his art , not theirs . |
| 8 | We would prefer to go back but if we close it for good it would be far better to have no Timex in Dundee than a Timex with scab labour earning scab wages and working under scab conditions . ’ |
| 9 | We may reduce the dredging of rivers , but if we stop it altogether , floods will return to overwhelm us . |
| 10 | ‘ It will be a great score in years to come if we can go ahead and lift the Sam Maguire , but if we lose it will count for nothing . ’ |
| 11 | Of course there are , and ought to be , a thousand images of God in which we represent him as changing his mind , forgetting , being angry , being him , doing all kinds of creaturely things ; our language of worship , of gratitude for existence , has to be full of such metaphors and images ; we must take these metaphors seriously , but if we take them literally , if we mistake these images for God , we are idolaters . |
| 12 | Might sound a bit complicated , but if we take it slowly , all will be revealed , and you will see that by using this method , every guest has an equal share of fishing opportunities . |
| 13 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 14 | But if we want it as a function , right , I give you this person 's name is Sophie say , and she maps to her father . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Appin will try to be clever , ’ said Miss Resker happily , ‘ but if we watch him carefully , we shall see his lips move . ’ |
| 16 | Oh I know , but I mean sort of there , I do n't know she would actually when it comes to it , but if we see her up there cos we can do the |
| 17 | But if we lower our ‘ poverty line ’ , we will at the same time reduce the number of poor people , and if we raise it , we will increase the number . |
| 18 | But if we say it 's around eight hundred |
| 19 | ‘ But if we feel we are opening new locations just for the sake of it , we 'll start another chain , ’ he says casually . |
| 20 | But if we give you information , how do we know you wo n't distort it ? ’ |
| 21 | But if we improve our system , we can use it . |
| 22 | But if we have everything ready to leave as soon as I get back from chess and I 'll make sure I leave promptly if we can come straight away then , with a bit of luck we 'll be on to the M twenty five b by half past four so we might |
| 23 | ‘ But if we have our way , we would be playing the bulk of our home games on a Friday evening , when they do not clash with either Liverpool or Everton . |
| 24 | I know , but if we do we 'll be fat as fuck wo n't we ? |
| 25 | But if we find we have enough information to proceed to make a positive recommendation , on the new settlement and the host district for that , then we would report accordingly . |
| 26 | But if we convert our traders into stock-jobbers , who is to carry on the commerce of the kingdom ? |
| 27 | We could describe them partly in terms of stress ( by saying , for example , that strong syllables are stressed and weak syllables unstressed ) , but until we describe what ‘ stress ’ means such a description would not be very useful . |
| 28 | But until we do I ca n't see that we can pass something which refers to something we know nothing about . |
| 29 | But unless we communicate our desires and feelings to those who are involved , how on earth will they know ? |
| 30 | But unless we know what it 's about , we ca n't do much . ’ |