Example sentences of "but we have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price was about the only thing about the house that was right , but we 'd both fallen in love with it right away . |
| 2 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
| 3 | Our table felt it was worth £20 of tickets for a woman to put her hand up and show him the error of his ways , but we 'd already forked out enough , honest . |
| 4 | procedure but we 'd already done that . |
| 5 | Liza and I had wanted to go into the big shops in New Street and Corporation Street for ages but we 'd never dared to pass the attendant who stood in the doorway ready to shoo small children off . |
| 6 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We can stretch our legs and have some coffee and something to eat , but we 'd better keep going , ’ he said . |
| 9 | But we 'd better hurry up . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nigel : OK , OK — but we 'd better hurry . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | ‘ We did consider replacing Monty , but we had already shot half the movie , ’ said Dore Schary . |
| 14 | But we had already gone further than that and use child resistant caps on products wherever we can . |
| 15 | ‘ There has been a lot of bad news on aircraft building programmes since we bought Dowty , ’ says Mr Garner , ‘ but we had effectively discounted all that in our acquisition financial modelling . |
| 16 | But we had just traversed the Cosmiques Arête to get there . |
| 17 | I had not met him socially before , but we had once clashed in court when he was counsel representing the police at the Brabin Inquiry into the Timothy Evans case . |
| 18 | We never had much to eat in ordinary times , but we had less now and us kids were really glad of the extra slice of bread and jam that we were given for our school breakfast . |
| 19 | But we had only one serviceable skyhook . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There were several clergy taking part in the service , but we had only one 1928 Revised Prayer Book , which was passed round . |
| 22 | It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made . |
| 23 | It was intended as a ‘ one off ’ but we had so much fun it turned into an annual event . ’ |
| 24 | we were in town on Saturday and I saw two really nice sports bags , but we had so many parcels I I did n't had n't the heart to suggest to Bill we |
| 25 | Well , we know the tomato splats have already gone mouldy on Comic Relief , but we had so many pictures and stories sent in we just had to squeeze out another page . |
| 26 | We took off on time , but we had unknowingly booked on to the milk run . |
| 27 | ‘ Horology is the study or measuring of time or making of clocks ’ — that 's what our dictionary says and the latter is what we do ; we make clocks for a large company called the London Clock Company , but we had very humble beginnings … . |
| 28 | Everything was very legitimate and above board , but we had very specific requirements of what we wanted this representation to be , because it is life size . |
| 29 | ‘ It had been bloody hard because we were sleeping with each other from very early on but we had always agreed not to get physical because I knew we should n't , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Lorne and I had often visited this particular cave in an attempt to film the Celebes Macaque , a baboon-sized monkey unique to the island , which nested in the giant tree which grew from it , but we had never thought of actually venturing inside . |