Example sentences of "but we have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was so disappointing , but we had to go to something in King 's Lynn . ’ |
| 4 | We were afraid , but we had to go on shore . |
| 5 | ‘ They made us chase shadows for long spells but we had to go after this game and that situation was tailor-made for Spartak , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Every instinct and all the forces in political democracy were against the surrender of sovereignty , but we had to move down the road towards accepting it . |
| 7 | Elizabeth I , whose delicate long fingers feature so prominently in her portraits , started a fashion for lily-white skin , but we had to wait until the 1880s for the advent of polished nails in Britain . |
| 8 | The shoot used to last five or six days in August but you did n't get paid when it was finished — do n't ask me why , but we had to wait until Christmas . |
| 9 | He pays tribute to his treatment at Gartree prison , he apologises to the bomb victims ' families that they have had to keep reminding them of their loss : ‘ But we had to fight for our freedom . ’ |
| 10 | I am short of cover up front but we had to look to the future . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ No , but we 've turned up Brand 's track record and that could mean something . |
| 12 | But we 've got to be happy with a point . ’ |
| 13 | Well , er we 're very lucky that er Oxford 's pretty well covered , yes , we 've , or could do with some more volunteers of course , but we 've got about one hundred and twenty people who 'll be going out in the city , and I was looking at a map this morning and it 's very well covered indeed with purple and yellow lines where we 've actually got people on the ground . |
| 14 | Mills was amoral and untrustworthy , but we 've known for a while now that he definitely worked for us . ’ |
| 15 | We 're in favour of the part that would protect the work of art after it leaves the studio , but we 've fought against the resale royalties section that would provide a share of resale profits to go to the artists . |
| 16 | ‘ But we 've come to the conclusion that since not everybody 's ready for it , we 'd better start packaging some of our most popular strings both ways — individually in sixes , and collectively in one packet — and let players make up their own minds . |
| 17 | But we 've continued with investment to develop our business as well er and so we acquired Ventura which publishes the er Spot er books . |
| 18 | Things may change now but we 've working on that basis |
| 19 | I do n't think so but we 've specified in here a lady shall . |
| 20 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 21 | Perhaps a little more expensive , but we 've opted for a powerhead run undergravel — which will ensure adequate throughput of water through the gravel , and offers many similar features to the internal power filter , in terms of flow and aeration . |
| 22 | Leeds has asked that migration continue to be accommodated in Craven , Harrogate and er Hambleton but we 've objected to the idea of a new settlement in Selby and our main concern is with major employment focused in the Leeds York corridor , and that 's the substance of our objection . |
| 23 | But we 've looked into Mr and Mrs Sorrell 's movements . |
| 24 | Refrigeration is another large expense , but we have economised by 20% — and that 's enough power to run all the household fridges in Wolverhampton . |
| 25 | But when we come to the interpersonal function , we not only have to account for the literary work itself as a discourse between author and reader , but we have to reckon with the phenomenon of " embedded discourse " : the occurrence of discourse within discourse , as when the author reports dialogue between fictional characters . |
| 26 | This is less likely to happen when we are older — not only have the hormones settled down , but we have moved beyond youthful ambitions and have time to cultivate a relationship , and actively seek love and companionship as a number one priority . |
| 27 | We can not tell in advance in what directions a specific lesson or block of work might lead — but we have to act as if we can . |
| 28 | But we have to continue with that . |
| 29 | But we have heard of no other wife . |
| 30 | Generalisations may be helpful to a certain extent but we have to take into account complex variants which are law-related but not necessarily legal : Richard Vogler ( in Chapter 7 of this volume ) for example , leads us to ask whether the use of law will lead to a bureaucratisation and disintegration of the peace movement as in the 1960s ? |