Example sentences of "but we [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe we ca n't stop that , ’ he hissed , ‘ but we 'd better make maternity a better deal for the others , or we 're going to be overrun . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We can stretch our legs and have some coffee and something to eat , but we 'd better keep going , ’ he said . |
| 3 | If that 's clear we then need to go back and attack the hiatus hernia with more erm , but we 'd better get your chest sorted out first . |
| 4 | But we 'd better hurry up . ’ |
| 5 | Nigel : OK , OK — but we 'd better hurry . |
| 6 | Yeah but we do n't mention that , we just have cos she was pissed . |
| 7 | The strains of ‘ He 's got no hair , but we do n't care , ’ from his adoring United followers had hardly died down before he announced : |
| 8 | And Akram admitted last night : ‘ This might start further accusations of ball-tampering but we do n't care any more . |
| 9 | ‘ If we can force them to pull out through lack of money then that is their excuse , but we do n't care as long as they go somewhere else . ’ |
| 10 | you have naked men on the walls , but no , but we do n't care . |
| 11 | There would have been a difference in weight , but we do n't lift the Wheel at any stage , we roll it . |
| 12 | " But we do n't barbecue , " she says emphatically . |
| 13 | ‘ But we do n't miss them , because there are so many windows . |
| 14 | Now the thing is we , we can refer to sight and touch and hearing , but we do n't refer to the sense of smell just as smell , in modern English . |
| 15 | We 're resistant to it not for any dogmatic reason but we do n't feel that local democracy is necessarily improved by the County Council d d ducking it 's decision . |
| 16 | And they have a far greater proportion of the Greater York area than we do , erm as I outlined we just have three relatively modest villages , erm our , we do have a concern erm , on this , in that we do n't ac , given there 's a a district and an area have not be identified , we do n't feel that there has been a comparative assessment of the two options , we do n't dispute that they may well be harm er from peripheral development around other distric , around settlements in other districts , we acknowledged other other District Council 's concerns , and indeed , these are arguments we have used ourselves on the scale of development in Hambledon , er but we do n't feel that there has been a properly balanced assessment of the two options . |
| 17 | I suppose if we look at British history there was a period in the last century and earlier where we did a pretty good job of conquering people , but we do n't feel too badly about that , but we feel pretty indignant about Germany trying to take a bit more territory at various points . |
| 18 | really you should have brackets round the whole lot but we do n't bother to put them . |
| 19 | But in them days do you see , we had er a kettle here and a kettle there but we do n't bother with now . |
| 20 | puts all sorts , but we do n't bother to buy all that |
| 21 | But we do n't go round smashing things up all the time like some kids . |
| 22 | Mushroom is respectable too , I should add — but we do n't go in for tans , we 're too worried about skin cancer . |
| 23 | You and I went to ordinary grammar schools , Bob — but we do n't go round pretending to be classless . |
| 24 | But we do n't go as often now . |
| 25 | ‘ But we do n't go in for top models , ’ she said . |
| 26 | er There is obviously a certain party atmosphere at Conferences , it 's the one big chance of the year for many many hard-working activists to get together and share ideas , it does engender er a certain amount of frivolity er around the edges , so we 'll see some of that , but we do n't go in for this cult of leadership which the other parties do , you wo n't see any manufactured longstanding ovations for er leaders . |
| 27 | We do n't need to grab people in self-defence : the police restrain prisoners and killers strangle victims , but we do n't fit into either category . |
| 28 | I do n't think people hate us personally , but we do n't fit in . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The magazine side of our publishing is perhaps the most flexible in design terms , ’ says Peter Brigg , ‘ but we do n't set out to be at the cutting edge of fancy design . |
| 30 | Now that trait could well be favoured by species selection , because what is it that evolves — individuals do not evolve — we are born and we die , but we do n't evolve . |