Example sentences of "but we have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was very patient but we 'd lost time . |
| 2 | I liked going to the Youth Club or the pictures with him , or staying in and watching telly in his new flat , but we 'd grown apart . |
| 3 | Not many ticks had been added to our bird list , but we 'd earned a very fine tick for our lizard list ! |
| 4 | Somewhere … he said , but we 'd had enough , began |
| 5 | I miss your mother , I really do — we had our differences but we 'd got the measure of each other , as you might say . |
| 6 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 7 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 8 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 9 | Yeah but we 'd got erm tt oh , Leo at the side of us so he was , do you know the that do christian ? |
| 10 | So last night , I thought , I wo n't do anything till he comes in but we 'd got company and er , they went outside , they were having a look at car engine and that , telling us what were wrong , you know . |
| 11 | But we 'd anticipated this . |
| 12 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 13 | Some demanded them at gunpoint , but we had hidden ours and my parents explained in German that they had already been taken . |
| 14 | The next day the Lapp arrived for his drink , but we had seen no evidence of a trail . |
| 15 | But we had gone on . |
| 16 | It had become clear to me that both Leslie and I had changed — not in essentials , but we had grown up . |
| 17 | Twice he attempted to overtake , but we had reached the top of the hill before a gap in the stream of cars streaking up on our right allowed him to slip in between the lorry and myself . |
| 18 | It was next door to the Infants School but we had heard terrifying stories about life there . |
| 19 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 20 | Actually , I had n't played with Craig on the North American tour but we had trained together and he is such a very good player , and , of course , in playing district and other representative rugby you just have to fit in with different stand-offs . |
| 21 | But we had arranged already : luncheon in an inn , followed by a walk in the country , and then back to Frank 's lodgings for tea . |
| 22 | ‘ But we had arranged not to go until next week . |
| 23 | But we had saved the day , and our long friendship . |
| 24 | ‘ My husband has been in the R.A.F. for nearly four years , but we had saved enough for the costs of a normal confinement in a nursing home , and as it was my first baby , we thought it well worth a little extra expense . |
| 25 | We may not have watched the Toraja dynasty ascend through a flaming village circle , but we had witnessed one of its sons , very close , leap through a flaming hoop and land on his feet . |
| 26 | But we had forgotten . |
| 27 | But we had had to make do with black crepe paper , which was the next best thing . |
| 28 | But we had got on to a subject I do happen to know something about . |
| 29 | But we had failed to appreciate its significance . |
| 30 | But we had walked further than I had realized , and I called to her to come back . |