Example sentences of "but we [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's in the Hennessy but we 'll probably miss that . |
| 2 | Yes , we 'll encourage people to stand on their own two feet , but we 'll also seek to aid those who for a variety of reasons need a bit of extra help . |
| 3 | This is a bad place , but we 'll soon get out of it . " |
| 4 | I 'm terribly grateful to you for all your help , but we 'll just be friends tonight , OK ? ’ |
| 5 | It probably wants it hyphenated but we 'll just say skip , if you 're happy with the spelling . |
| 6 | But we 'll just have to do the best we can . ’ |
| 7 | Do n't forget the same with , with take-aways as well , if the signs are the same you get a plus or you get an add , erm so that 's , I mean I can see this is the bit you 're not too happy with , but we 'll just see if it works . |
| 8 | Would be a , be quite a few calls , but we 'll just maybe have to try and I do n't know what we 'll do . |
| 9 | If I can er I can just sneak in he won some gold medal for Scotland as well but we 'll just er |
| 10 | There obviously are n't more than thirty one days in a month but we 'll just practice then counting from twenty now and we 'll stop at thirty nine |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm aware of my name being mentioned again as an England candidate , which is nice , but we 'll just have to see what happens , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm aware of my name being mentioned again as an England candidate , which is nice , but we 'll just have to see what happens . |
| 13 | but we 'll just leave it now |
| 14 | But we 'll just have a word with Anna-Lee and if , I think you know , she 'll say what 's it concerning and if I 'm not there well she can put them through to you . |
| 15 | ‘ But we 'll never make it . ’ |
| 16 | I ca n't help thinking it had something to do with Angy 's murder , but we 'll never know now . |
| 17 | One of things that we 'll never be though is , I think perhaps I can use the , I do n't want to use the word cheap because that 's not right , but we 'll never be less expensive than the others will we ? |
| 18 | When we started here it looked er but we 'll only get actually six weeks , said you 've got six weeks work , that 's all . |
| 19 | But we 'll only really worry about the last page if you |
| 20 | We just want people to get the money in very quickly after the seventh of November , er but we 'll hopefully know after Sunday evening , er what we reckon to have raised in the area . |
| 21 | Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd blames a 5% fall in profits before charges for closure of some telecommunications operations on losses at the UK telecommunications subsidiary , Reuter reports , but the group will still commit another £200m to the UK unit this year , group chairman Li Ka-Shing said : ‘ I 'm not happy with the results , but we 'll still continue our commitment to the UK operation and pump more money into it , ’ he said — ‘ I 'm not sure the worst is over yet in the UK , which ate up all our Hong Kong profits this year ; ’ he said Hutchison will have invested over £500m in the loss-making UK unit , including the £200m that is earmarked for this year , but he refused to say at what point he will say enough is enough — ‘ It 's too early to say ; you can never tell when business will pick up . ’ |
| 22 | But we 'll still be doing a lot of business with Oracle and Ingres , ’ Filip said . |
| 23 | Of course , we reinsured for a cut of the premiums , but we 'll still stand to lose well over sixteen million dollars . |
| 24 | But we might reasonably wonder what point there is in racking our brains to find an acceptable definition of ‘ a knows that p ’ . |
| 25 | But we might reasonably doubt whether the requirement that the method be reliable this time amounts to any genuine addition to the tripartite account . |
| 26 | We did n't say , but we might well have thought , that that was what a sports car ought to be . |
| 27 | We should not only lose , against eight times our numbers , but we might well tempt the Forteviot garrison to come out and rescue us , and the fort would be taken . ’ |
| 28 | Well , so we might , but we might also think that ‘ literary promotion ’ is an inadequate description of Pound 's sustained and inventive activities on behalf of his notably non-reciprocating Irish colleague . |
| 29 | ( I hear Anya 's hiss of horror ) ‘ but we might just manage to be friends . ’ |
| 30 | Soon , my brother and I knew , it must separate us , and we lived these last months together in the mutual kindness that ( I hope and imagine ) commonly exists between deeply attached people of whom one has been condemned by the doctors — but we might both be condemned . |