Example sentences of "but [adv] we [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , in summary , we are all administered rather differently , but perhaps we 've all got something to learn from each other . |
| 2 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 3 | I could say a lot about ho , but anyway we started this and we used to go to the I L P , and we used to get packed meetings there on a Sunday night , and s then about nineteen , course we had the general strike , and through the general strike we was both in the I L P and we were doing everything we could you know , distributing the illegal leaflets , and er newspapers that we duplicated , on a hand duplicator . |
| 4 | But once we turn 30 , our hair follicles become less efficient and produce hairs which are smaller in diameter and in length . |
| 5 | But once we use Christian values to complete it , it renders the system logically inconsistent ; because we can not introduce Christian values on a piecemeal basis . |
| 6 | But once we add this functional criterion we create a different problem : sometimes non-governmental bodies perform functions which we might consider to be governmental ( or ‘ public ’ ) in nature ( or , in other words , most appropriately conducted by government ) . |
| 7 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 8 | Not only is there the question of the availability of data on lifetime income , but also we know little about key relationships of the model such as the bequest function and the intergenerational association of earnings . |
| 9 | I think I 'd like to start by making a few general points , er and then er it will be a matter for for others to be somewhat more specific , I I I think I can say that the issue of a new settlement of a new settlement in Greater York is is a fairly unique situation , because we have agreement between the development industry and the County Council , and that 's something of a rarity , but also we have mild support from the Department of the Environment , and as Mr Davis has already said , that is backed by public support . |
| 10 | The letter from the plaintiffs solicitors in respect of question of interest one causes , the letter of the twenty ninth of January of nineteen ninety two , asking Mr to confirm , that in addition to the settlement figure of forty two thousand pounds in respect of costs he 'd be paying interest until the date of payment , and er , there was never a mind that erm which find a reply to in , in thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two by Mr , there 's no unqualified agreement in figure of forty two thousand pounds , I do not wish to appear obstructive but your clients must recognise that there are effectively two issues to be resolved , namely the payment of their costs and the division of the parts of other property , surely in all parties interest that none of these are resolved , so it is surely in all party interest that those , those are resolved contemporary and then the letter goes on to dealing with questions of valuation , the bottom paragraph on page thirty two in the bundle says in answer to your letter therefore is that there is no agreement to pay interest , if there is then my client must be credited with interest on his costs , and then it says surgery and finally if ove if overall agreement can not be reached then my client reserves his rights on the issue of costs and I feel that this could lead to an acrimonious and protracted taxation , at the end of the day I suspect it would only be enforced the order for costs about taking a charge in my clients interest in the surgery premises , does that improve your clients position at all , as I say that was the position of the thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two and during the remainder of nineteen ninety two there were then further negotiations , some of them appeared to have been carried out er personally between er doctor and er doctor which seems to of been the partner , dealing with the plaintiffs position and er he says about his non negotiable offer at page forty one in the bundle apparently attached to a letter of the twenty first of December nineteen ninety two and er that had a time limit on , the twenty second of March , there was a reminder on the twenty second of February and erm the plaintiffs solicitors wrote on the fourteenth of April nineteen ninety three raising the question of costs erm say that erm we have now received your clients instructions , that they would be prepared to accept the sum of forty two thousand in respect of their standard basis costs which is inclusive of V A T and disbursements , you remember that our initial schedule of costs which I set part of my letter of the eighth of October total fifty thousand , nine hundred and ninety eight pounds , twenty six pence , in addition to this our client would require interest from the which is as of todays date at seven hundred and sixty days at seventeen pounds , twenty six a day totalling thirteen thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds , sixty , in the circumstances I look forward to receiving your clients cheque for the sum of fifty five thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds and sixty pence within the next seven days and then it says I believe you were certainly agreeing have been very patient concerning your clients costs , but now we wish these to be paid and that was responded to er Mr on the twenty second of April er but why he quite has not been directly involved in the conversation for some time and there was not reasonable expected response for seven days from him , er and then he goes on to say that although he appreciates his firm is still on the record , I shall seek instructions from my client , but it maybe he would wish to give notice of acting in person and indeed that is in fact what happened , what happened in this case . |
| 11 | Thirty years ago , rubbing a cut clove of garlic round the salad bowl was considered daring , but now we import 4,572 tonnes of the stuff , mainly from Italy , Spain and France , and as well as its wide ranging culinary uses there is increasing interest in its medicinal powers . |
| 12 | And on the front page they say : ‘ We did n't want to share our sorrow but now we have good news to tell . ’ |
| 13 | But now we have good news to tell that we 're going to have a baby some time in December or January . ’ |
| 14 | But now we have good news to tell . ’ |
| 15 | But now we have good news to tell . ’ |
| 16 | Normally we do n't keep a record of the results but now we have some hard facts . |
| 17 | But now we have another pan-European item , confusingly called Europa Europa ( Odeon , Kensington , and Screen on the Hill from 15 May ) . |
| 18 | Socially and psychologically women are brought up to care for relationships , to care for people , they want to do it well , where it goes wrong they tend to blame themselves , but equally we have eminent members of the judiciary who in the past have commented in some of the cases of severe assaults on women , the kind of er quote that you were making |
| 19 | An identical monument exists at Spaxworth , Norfolk , but here we have two shrouded figures , William Peck ( d. 1635 ) and his wife , he lying behind and a little above her . |
| 20 | We never met anybody in the country , but sometimes we visited some of my family who live near London . |
| 21 | A large part of this was destroyed in the 1990 gales , but fortunately we had underplanted wherever possible and the magnolias which are such a feature of the garden survived remarkably well . |
| 22 | ‘ But then we go straight back . |
| 23 | ‘ Distribution always seems to improve during the Christmas period , ’ he said , ‘ but then we bypass inefficient distributors by going direct to the excellent wholesalers . ’ |
| 24 | Well that 's what I felt , but then we had that outbound planned , which was cancelled |
| 25 | You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ . |
| 26 | They 'd start er you know one man gen mentioned er that when we get married in church erm we are making sacred vows you know we start with God but then we get busy with our living and our jobs and having our families and then somehow we forget about God and we we try to go on without him . |
| 27 | but then we do that at the start |
| 28 | But then we stole one Polo shirt and that was it . |
| 29 | But then we have present a male human being who , in some sense , is considered unique . |
| 30 | But a more important distinction for our purposes is not so much what we are angry about , but how we get angry , how long we remain angry and what our anger response involves . |