Example sentences of "but we had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Some demanded them at gunpoint , but we had hidden ours and my parents explained in German that they had already been taken .
2 It was a killer , but we had to do it first .
3 So I mean , not , were n't gon na give us it , but we had to do it for
4 Most of the meals were cold and inedible , but we had to eat them because we were hungry .
5 We used the flour because the flour would go bad then we we had to supply that the commissioners put it in originally but we had to keep it going out of our seven and a tanner .
6 And er then we after the war was finished , we continued making them for several years , but we had to transfer it to another factory .
7 But we had to tell them about some modifications that needed to be done .
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