Example sentences of "but we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we stuck with the same tune that Wally had come up with . |
| 2 | So that 's why we have n't , he wanted twenty , the home secretary wanted twenty up and running before Christmas , he did n't say which Christmas , but we presumed he meant last Christmas , and we said no , we 'll do it properly and get it started up right |
| 3 | The car skidded for what seemed like an eternity and the lady driver coming the other way did her best to stop , but we collided head on . |
| 4 | But we dropped our guard , lost concentration and suddenly it was 2–2 . ’ |
| 5 | Prien himself and most of his crew had been killed later in the war , but we managed to track down and invite over from Germany his engineer officer on that famous trip . |
| 6 | Well organised folks can book a permit to camp up to a year in advance , but we managed to get in despite having no permit when we arrived . |
| 7 | Leary said : ‘ My French is only adequate and he does n't speak English but we managed a conversation about the things that matter to us . |
| 8 | ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’ |
| 9 | We could n't do an awful lot because it was er er classed as a luxury business er and so we , we could n't get an awful lot of photographic paper or films or anything of that sort but we managed to keep the connections up with what we could get . |
| 10 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 11 | But we managed to track down your kindly vendor 's accountant , and persuade them to bring those accounts up to date . ’ |
| 12 | Ten minutes flew by but we managed to unpack , have a quick wash and change . |
| 13 | It rained on and off today but we managed to escape getting wet . |
| 14 | But we managed . |
| 15 | We ordered them while on holiday there last Summer : an enforced break from the building — but we managed some fabulous flying in the sun whilst we were away . |
| 16 | Erm so I do n't think that one 's achievable erm I think what this amounts to is that erm there are two cuts that we do n't agree with er there 's a vast on reserves we do n't agree with but we managed to put forward a thousand pounds for education at the same time erm i this does strike me as a budget of a party which it knows has no prospect of any sort of responsibility in this council for a long time to come . |
| 17 | And this was in the 60s when high rise was so fashionable , but we managed not to have them in Washington . ’ |
| 18 | But we managed to play well against Uruguay and we want to play well in Scotland . ’ |
| 19 | Some said they 'd , they 'd be interested in playing , they knew how to play certain things and others wanted to play others and that 's how we started , and in a matter of a year the new headquarters at er Lowestoft was being opened , by the Dutchess of Kent , and we decided that the band was going to play at that one and you can imagine , and it was all ready and they were playing music , but I 'm not sure what , what quality music it was , and blow me on the week before , the band leader , the conductor decided he could n't play because he had a sprained wrist so we were left without a conductor even , but we managed to get another conductor and we played and I do n't know what it sounded like , but the Dutchess of Kent was very kind , she said the music sounded lovely . |
| 20 | ‘ They hit the bar and we were a bit lucky there but we deserved a break because we fought right to the death on a very heavy pitch . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But we deserved something from the game . |
| 22 | ‘ Brentford gave us a terrific battle but we deserved to win even though we missed chances . |
| 23 | BUT we deserved to win on Wednesday , and by enough goals to put us through . |
| 24 | When we complained , we had quite a battle with the manager of the firm , but we argued that the fridge was not in use all the time , and if it had been in our home the fault may have occurred earlier . |
| 25 | But we overruled him . ’ |
| 26 | We were carrying light loads because it was our last day but we averaged about 25kph with ease , and for a long while . |
| 27 | There were things sticking out all over the place on the Albini recordings but we came away with a sound we liked , ’ says the bass player . |
| 28 | It was too dark to see what lay behind it but we came to a corner where a tall wooden tower rose suddenly towards the stars . |
| 29 | But we came into it about after nineteen hundred I should say . |
| 30 | I 'm not being facile , but we came from the sea , we 've dumped on it for years and it looks like it 's getting its own back . |