Example sentences of "but [adv] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For I have news of great moment to report , viz. that on Friday last by a night when the moon shone but weakly we had intelligence that our neighbours in this land were embarked upon a most fiendish and treacherous Enterprise , namely to do every man among us fatal harm while we were still sleeping in our beds . |
| 2 | But yo , but luckily we had to check our bottles to make sure there 's no peroxides in them . |
| 3 | The Unix festival , UniForum ‘ 93 , did n't feel as successful a show as it was last year : it was spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , and attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic — like as not , it was talking about the pre-registration which was up , but unofficially we hear attendance was down ; UniForum is still more a Unix celebration than anything else but it remains to be seen whether there will still be things to celebrate or whether erosion has set in . |
| 4 | But mostly we develop our language by analogy . |
| 5 | We do not need a fund to get there but rather we need to face up to and deal with the systematic discrimination that women face . ’ |
| 6 | The theory argues that we can not develop one universal scientific approach to create the perfect organisational structure , but rather we have to look at a number of variables and see how they interact with each other within particular organisations . |
| 7 | We disagree quite strongly at national level and international level , but locally we do n't . |
| 8 | What we need to do is to add a drug called Anapril Which is otherwise known as Inavase and somewhere , but somewhere we have a Brilliant , it 's gone again . |
| 9 | Then it would be mixed with the hot water in a possing tub , which was made from wood in the early days , but eventually we acquired a zinc one . |
| 10 | It 's long and straight and takes for ever but eventually we get to the outskirts of Newbury . |
| 11 | Considering how many times he must have been through this script , there are a lot of ‘ ums ’ and ‘ you knows ’ and pauses , but eventually we get there . |
| 12 | But eventually we haggled out an agreement . |
| 13 | So , in summary , we are all administered rather differently , but perhaps we 've all got something to learn from each other . |
| 14 | But perhaps we do n't really know enough and we do n't know where to go for information , I mean I do n't know er I , I I 'm not an expert but there are experts here , how would you assess the services available to people who feel they do need help , or for people who perhaps do n't know they need help ? |
| 15 | We dare not ask for the grace of humility , but perhaps we do n't need to when it is so often thrust upon us , thought Sophia , beating together eggs and sugar for a sponge cake , knowing that her cake would not rise as high as Sister Dew 's . |
| 16 | But perhaps we have grown over-concerned about the conscious levels of rationality and suppressed for too long the reservoirs of subconscious feeling which the Spirit seems to touch and use when a man prays in tongues , with the result that he is built up , even though he can not understand what he is saying ( I Cor. 14:4 ) . |
| 17 | We have already seen how persistent early boundary features can be , but perhaps we have underestimated the extent of these earlier divisions . |
| 18 | We shout and we drool , with the distorted faces of babies ; individually we have no power or courage , but together we form a glowing mass . |
| 19 | But obviously we know that interviewers simply given the task of producing say 20 interviews might choose only women of a fairly young age-group and we know this is not representative of the population . |
| 20 | I mean we ca n't go into the private market and expect them or asking them to provide houses erm affordable houses as I say the question is what 's an affordable house , who 's got the money to buy the house I would presume , but obviously we know the situation is it 's the lower rent of market , the lower income groups and the unemployed that are suffering very much reasonable accommodation at a rent or at a price they can afford and I reckon this is what hopefully the government was after to say whether we 'll put in our policy and hope that we can get things . |
| 21 | I ca n't say that we 'll approve every one , but obviously we know that if you introduce a general charge there will be people for whom you do not want it to affect unfairly . |
| 22 | Er , so that 's okay to an extent , but obviously we 've got an approved list of building societies and banks , which we never used to have , but we 've realized that er since B C C I p particularly and the housing market as bad as it is , there are some building societies and banks who may be in difficulties , and if they go down erm then they may not be taken over . |
| 23 | But obviously we 've got to be very careful about looking at actual work carried out , bearing in mind that is |
| 24 | So I ca n't see any reason er for putting that back but obviously we 've . |
| 25 | You do n't have to make a firm commitment but obviously we like you to give us some idea of your availability . |
| 26 | ‘ We try to plan well in advance , but obviously we have to be flexible . |
| 27 | ‘ But obviously we do n't sell anything like knives or firearms which have criminal overtones . ’ |
| 28 | erm but obviously we do cover the parts that are listed on pages two and three of all of our booklets , and depending on the premium that 's paid depends on the coverage issues . |
| 29 | On the surface , we obey , but inside we wait . |
| 30 | It was extraordinary , but suddenly we seemed to be on quite different terms . |