Example sentences of "but we [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat .
2 We have as many lovely things here as on the Mountain of Butterflies but we lack only a prophet and the eyes and emotions to see them .
3 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
4 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 .
5 We 've never been in the same class or anything , but we saw quite a lot of each other in the Christmas concert last year and then , well , it sort of started with that . "
6 To tell the truth , there ai n't much to do in the garden , but we go quite a lot anyhow .
7 But we gave away a bad goal through sloppy defending .
8 One official said ‘ Twenty or so forgeries have turned up so far , but we believe quite a number more are in the system . ’
9 But we have both a general reason for setting a classical agenda , and two particular ones .
10 Er they tend to be more sophisticated and slimmer and nice looking , but we have quite a few craftsmen around now , no blacksmiths as such , but even in the old days er you had rather cheaper versions made with wooden handles and just a nice piece of light Tinwooey bent over to form the board , the mould board and that .
11 But we did quite a a lot of work for E G in er Street .
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