Example sentences of "but we [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we know when we have ‘ got it ’ , and when we have got it we believe it and can work to it . |
| 2 | Yeah , but we know where they 're getting it from , so we know what , we know what it 's costing them |
| 3 | But we know why they 're |
| 4 | Of the incidence of poverty and famine we know comparatively little , but we know enough to be sure that both were common . |
| 5 | Not , I admit , the kind of explosives you have down there but we know enough not to trigger a bomb by accident . ’ |
| 6 | Elsie lived but we know very little about her beyond a few basic facts : she married an older man who was rather irascible and treated her badly ; she disappeared in mysterious circumstances when she was about twenty-six ; her body was discovered a year ago on the bed of the filled-in Loch Craig . |
| 7 | But we know very little about the animals which bore these scales and although a few articulated remains have been known for several years , they show very little anatomical detail and it is not easy to identify immediate relatives . |
| 8 | In many ways , problem solving is just common sense but we know how rare that is ! |
| 9 | The first time she stopped breathing I panicked , but we know how to resuscitate her . ’ |
| 10 | But we know how words like that crop up . |
| 11 | But we know far too little to generalize the effect of their habits on the population at large , and of marriage among the lower classes we know next to nothing . |
| 12 | We know that black elderly people , for example , have very little contact with formal social services but we know far too little about the reasons for this . |
| 13 | But we know really you could say yes . |
| 14 | People say I 'm so ‘ lucky ’ as their things are confiscated — but we know better ! |
| 15 | But we know better , eh , Yuan ? |
| 16 | But we know now that that 's not true : that there are many unconscious and subconscious mental processes which we ca n't just introspect , and that our mental life is far more complicated than we ourselves are ever aware of at the time . |
| 17 | We did n't , – but we know now ! |
| 18 | And this was in the 60s when high rise was so fashionable , but we managed not to have them in Washington . ’ |
| 19 | There were things sticking out all over the place on the Albini recordings but we came away with a sound we liked , ’ says the bass player . |
| 20 | But we went home and I remember going in the room , I opened the door and oh it 's lovely and warm in here ! |
| 21 | But we went out to this zydeco bar and it just completely blew me away . ’ |
| 22 | It 's been a bit sort of muggy this afternoon but we went out in the garden and we sort of just pottled around you know ? |
| 23 | I lived in the Department of Sonsonate but we went all over the place looking for work . |
| 24 | fancy the paella he said no problem I make paella so , I mean all of half an hour went by , but we went in and we had paella and then all these people started dancing , they moved the chairs back and they started clapping and singing and dancing and I said is this |
| 25 | ‘ We were crap for ages , ’ confesses Lucy , ‘ but we hung on in there , gradually improved and started pestering people for support slots . ’ |
| 26 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 27 | But we ask far more of you before your bondage is at an end . |
| 28 | But we pick up the hotel at |
| 29 | But we felt better organised this time and again we felt very pleased with it as still only our second attempt . |
| 30 | We learnt a few lessons on how we could have improved it but we felt very pleased with it as our first attempt . |