Example sentences of "but we [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We , of the Rupert Bear generations , may not have retained our innocence but we surely have a duty to keep a sense of responsibility to the next generation . |
| 2 | My brother and I shared a room for a while but we soon had a partition put in allowing us to each have our separate rooms . |
| 3 | 1993 and 1994 will see the Company undergoing a period of restructuring and product development , but we already have a comprehensive product and supply package and this should provide good medium term prospects within the principal oil field markets worldwide . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember what snag , I think the person or something , I ca n't remember details but we nearly had an entrance at that end of the car park which in my opinion was you know , a lot of the people |
| 5 | ‘ All the best colleges offer first class tuition , but we also allocate a personal tutor to each student , even one who is only with us for three months . |
| 6 | We do have traditional travelling people but we also have a lot of people these days who are dropping out of society and who do not want to stay put anywhere . ’ |
| 7 | When we train we go through many moves and set pieces but we also have a joke . |
| 8 | A Chilean spokesman argued that " we want a pollution-free Antarctica , but we also want a useful Antarctica , not a frozen museum protected under a glass case " . |
| 9 | ‘ Steve Pears contributed to a goalless draw , but we also missed a couple of chances . |
| 10 | For comic relief , obviously ; but we also suspect a topical reference worth considering as evidence in the dating game . |
| 11 | Over recent years there has been a growing realization that the development of communicative competence is crucially a methodological matter , but we also need a rationale in support of such a shift of focus . |
| 12 | He believes we need tougher sentences as a deterrent , but we also need a cure . |
| 13 | They still have it in with But we never had a one here . |
| 14 | None of us is starving , however , and we all have more than enough clothes to wear , but we still spend a large part of our lives worrying about our material needs — what should we eat ? |
| 15 | Our pit was n't going to be big , but we still used a pier as a precautionary measure . |
| 16 | But we still did a lot of sport and work on the assault course , which was a set of twenty-four gut-wrenching obstacles set on the edge of the camp . |
| 17 | I believe delegation and empowerment is starting to show improvements but we still have a long way to go . |
| 18 | We turned the tables in the FA Cup , but we still have a score to settle . |
| 19 | Koti works at night as well , and so we both get home late — but we always have a natter before going to bed , no matter how late . |
| 20 | He sets up a fair few goals but we really need a finisher something Wallace managed to do ( if you gave him enough chances in the game ) . |
| 21 | But we really need a candidate and there is n't anybody erm obvious who 's in a position to do it unfortunately . |
| 22 | In 1981 the government declared a 10% increase in those factories where it was economically viable , but we only received a 5% rise and our factory was very well off in economic terms . |
| 23 | but we usually have a similar document on the minor capital works . |
| 24 | We 've got , we have n't got capital programme there is minus of two thousand to show in appendix two but we usually have an itemized area by area booklet on the minor scheme so that we know where the minor capital schemes are , but we have n't got that |
| 25 | 2 clubs that were not only fighting for European places , but are good enough to win the league , but we obviously need a few slip ups at Old trafford . |
| 26 | Erm , but still getting , but we maybe getting a broader front on either focus too narrow a beam , sometimes it 's too difficult to get that narrow boat to be on exactly the right spot . |
| 27 | But we actually needed a procedure , that procedure was followed as best we could by borrowing another rule and it was achieved at the end of the day . |
| 28 | We do n't know how many solar systems there are in each galaxy because we can only see stars , not planets , but we earlier used an estimate that there may be 100 billion billion planets in the universe . |
| 29 | But we then took a view about , about future years because in a sense we 've always been , obviously had to provide for the er , year impression . |
| 30 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |