Example sentences of "but [adv] we [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was laughed at , but secretly we 'd say ‘ Oh God , they 're being stupid ’ . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But perhaps we 'll forget about that now . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We could say simply " ( edited ) " but perhaps we should take the title page at its word and say instead " ( selection and arrangement ) " . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | But perhaps we should have faced it back then . |
| 8 | ‘ I can hardly wait , ’ he said drily , ‘ but perhaps we could leave it for a couple of years ? ’ |
| 9 | But perhaps we could do something about it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's certainly your case at the moment , but naturally we 'll work together , as we 've always done . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | ‘ But normally we 'd use powerful diesel compressors . |
| 15 | Well I would n't er I do n't expect most things will completely but anyway we 'll see . |
| 16 | Erm and that would alter the book but nevertheless we would want to say , what I did was to alter the book . |
| 17 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | No hard and fast rules can be laid down but generally we will wish to impart minimum information to obtain maximum in return . |
| 20 | ‘ We do value our small business customers but generally we could avoid many problems if they did communicate more with us . ’ |
| 21 | But tonight we can see by moonlight . |
| 22 | I shall examine this question in more detail in the chapters in Part 3 , but meanwhile we might consider briefly how different approaches to language pedagogy in general can be characterized in reference to this question . |
| 23 | the basis of this fifteen grand , is using the fifteen grand but like we can see you using that |
| 24 | And that means we do n't give out the Toy Dogs magazine , but hopefully we 'll offer it a surprise tomorrow to the postal er to the postal winners . |
| 25 | Erm as far as certification of er th the of a system is concerned er we are still comm committed to getting office certificated and as many of you may be aware the Swindon office has actually overtaken us on the B E S side erm and they are er , but hopefully we will achieve certification for the whole of our group erm prior to Swindon achieving certification for their whole group . |
| 26 | She wants the marriage to survive , tearfully telling friends : ‘ Yes , we have a problem but hopefully we can come through it . ’ |
| 27 | Not only does the body clock contribute to the changes that are found , but also we can gain clues about the nature of it by a study of the changes . |
| 28 | ‘ But now we 'll eat . ’ |
| 29 | " That plan did n't work , but now we 'll find him something really impossible to do . |
| 30 | But now we must tell you some things about the Baskerville family . ’ |