Example sentences of "but we [vb base] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathy said : ‘ The final total is n't in , but we hope to have raised over £1,000 . |
| 2 | The response is coming through slowly , but we 've had to take a lot of initiatives on our own and we are hoping that others will come and support and back these initiatives . |
| 3 | But we 've had to bear with it . |
| 4 | Too cold but we 've had to bear with it . |
| 5 | But we seem to have reached the end of the story . |
| 6 | And the union , I mean I 'm not blaming just NUPE I mean every union but we seem to have stood still and nothing 's happened and th and , and the m , and the members are actually sick of their lies about what , what am I paying all this money for then ? |
| 7 | But we have had to do those things . |
| 8 | So , I 'm sure members of this Committee have heard this on several occasions as we 've introduced the system , but we have had to put in a fairly complex and detailed system of assessing people 's needs , producing care packages to meet those needs , offering choice to those people , and responding to that choice , then doing what the D S S used to do , I E , a financial assessment of their ability to meet the costs of that care , and settling our contribution , and we 're involved therefore in contracting with the independent sector for purchase of that care , and with the collection of contributions from those individuals , with increasing numbers and increasing complexity . |
| 9 | Yes , they are a problem , but we have had to impose them because of inflation . |
| 10 | The Ibrox manager , Walter Smith , said : ‘ It is obviously a worrying wait to see if they will be fit for Belgium but we have had to overcome injury to both these players at other stages of the season and I can only hope we are able to do so again . ’ |
| 11 | But we do have to do everything he wants for the next month or so . ’ |
| 12 | But we do have to ask if the saboteur could have been on the train , just in case any of you noticed anything wrong . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But we do have to take this condition seriously and get it under control . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ As I was saying , Superintendent , ’ he said , spinning back to Blanche , ‘ I really do understand your problems but we do have to get back to normal at some stage . |
| 15 | But we do have to face the paradox implicit in our contributing to the discourse , which is that every word we say on the subject of difference just underlines the salience and the importance of a division we are ultimately striving to end . |
| 16 | But we do have to attempt to maintain some intellectual detachment ’ . |
| 17 | We should not avoid the chance of helping others because of some misguided sense of ‘ doing harm ’ , but we do have to recognize that the counselling process might cause some temporary uncertainty and pain . |