Example sentences of "but we [vb past] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We played a well we went to the open last year , quite a few of us , and we 're going again er and w It was n't a particularly nice day but we thought if it 's it was a nice day , this would really be a lovely course . |
| 2 | But we hoped that something could be found . |
| 3 | But we had and we did . |
| 4 | But we knew that nothing we said to each other in private would be laughed at in public . |
| 5 | ‘ We were fresh out of art school , we had nothing , no money , we were alone in the world , but we knew that we were artists , and we wanted to make that the artwork , ’ says George . |
| 6 | They were of course more than welcome , and their contribution to the establishment of good standards was of very great value , but we knew that they represented a limited resource that would be quickly exhausted . |
| 7 | But we knew that it was probably inevitable . |
| 8 | We played badminton and sang folk songs , but we knew as we wept and prayed with refugees from Czechoslovakia that it would not be long before we were asked to make even the supreme sacrifice to stop , if we could , the Nazi menace . |
| 9 | The policemen were slightly surprised , and could n't work out where we 'd come from since there were no jetes there at the time ; but we explained that we had ‘ una avionetta privada ’ and they just looked bemused . |
| 10 | Then , I do n't know how many years we had down the street , but we moved when I was about six years old up the street near the church . |
| 11 | ‘ We were really nervous , ’ says Michelle West , ‘ but we found that it was the nervous people who stuck with the project . ’ |
| 12 | I hope you did n't mind us starting but we decided that we 'd |
| 13 | Yes , but we decided that we would ask them what , they could offer us first , or what they wanted , that is . |
| 14 | I would have said at forty one you know you er you 're still probably young enough to get a salaried job but we decided that it might be worth er you trying this avenue . |
| 15 | But we decided that you get carbon dioxide . |
| 16 | as far as the committee was concerned there is they 've taken a decision on the preferred route , but we did as I 've just referred to in the earlier work , er we did assess that erm and that showed again er that the traffic would n't transfer from the A sixty one onto a southern bypass and a inner northern relief road . |