Example sentences of "but we [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But we pick up the hotel at |
| 3 | ‘ They had n't paid the interest and court fees , but we got back every single penny they owed . |
| 4 | We have as many lovely things here as on the Mountain of Butterflies but we lack only a prophet and the eyes and emotions to see them . |
| 5 | Now that would do , that would do whether the , whether the knuckles were hurt or it was just a minor cut in the palm of the hand there , that would do and you can use the same type of bandage on the foot alright , so that 's if the hand was damaged , now supposing we did n't have the hand damaged , but we had instead a cut up here , okay , again clean it and if you clean it with lots of water always remember to dry off around the wound because bugs love a moist skin to grow in , dry the wound before you apply the dressing okay if you can , dry it off the best you can and then you 're going to place that over the cut , remember you want the pad to be long enough , big enough , okay , now she can hold this for you again , she can hold it above where the wound is and now when you bandage this one you always bandage from the narrow part to the fat part of the limb , you always bandage from the narrow to the fat , so you take the bandage down |
| 6 | But we had only a month in Borneo and after just three days — rather than the recommended three weeks — relaxing in Miri , the capital of Sarawak , we were looking forward to getting down to some trekking , the purpose of the trip . |
| 7 | We 've never been in the same class or anything , but we saw quite a lot of each other in the Christmas concert last year and then , well , it sort of started with that . " |
| 8 | To tell the truth , there ai n't much to do in the garden , but we go quite a lot anyhow . |
| 9 | GIS work in this field ( e.g. Matthews 1989 ) is reviewed later , but we note here the work of the applied geochemistry group at Imperial College ( responsible for a series of atlases on regional geochemistry ) and the existence of a Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health . |
| 10 | ‘ But we gave away a bad goal through sloppy defending . |
| 11 | but we found out the measurements for it to go |
| 12 | One official said ‘ Twenty or so forgeries have turned up so far , but we believe quite a number more are in the system . ’ |
| 13 | But we have both a general reason for setting a classical agenda , and two particular ones . |
| 14 | Well , we should of , but we have n't no |
| 15 | ‘ But we have n't a clue about what causes antioxidant differences between raw and cooked food , ’ adds Professor James . |
| 16 | Er they tend to be more sophisticated and slimmer and nice looking , but we have quite a few craftsmen around now , no blacksmiths as such , but even in the old days er you had rather cheaper versions made with wooden handles and just a nice piece of light Tinwooey bent over to form the board , the mould board and that . |
| 17 | We at least have a subjective idea of what an echo is , but we have almost no subjective idea of what it might be like to perceive an electric field . |
| 18 | Cos we but we did n't the last one ? |
| 19 | But we did quite a a lot of work for E G in er Street . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've lost four clients out of a total of 1,800 and I expect others will drift away , but we picked up a new client just this morning . ’ |
| 21 | But we threw away the lead four times . |