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

No	Sentence
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	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 . ’
7	‘ We can stretch our legs and have some coffee and something to eat , but we 'd better keep going , ’ he said .
8	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 .
9	But we 'd better hurry up . ’
10	Nigel : OK , OK — but we 'd better hurry .
11	‘ We did consider replacing Monty , but we had already shot half the movie , ’ said Dore Schary .
12	But we had already gone further than that and use child resistant caps on products wherever we can .
13	‘ 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 .
14	But we had just traversed the Cosmiques Arête to get there .
15	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 .
16	We took off on time , but we had unknowingly booked on to the milk run .
17	‘ 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 .
18	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 .
19	It took a while to identify the first two but we 've finally managed to do that .
20	‘ But we 've probably spent the best part of £1m on lawyers ’ fees , let alone our own time . ’
21	But we 've just said that he should still have been able to work out that his space was curved , even though he could n't see it .
22	" We want to look our very best — which should n't be a real problem as we 're so gorgeous — but we 've just had to change our clothes a couple of times .
23	But we 've just had somebody from Glasgow go down to do my own course in Humberside .
24	‘ But now we 're just trying to forget that part of our life I know that sounds awful but we 've just had to rebuild our lives again . ’
25	But we 've just got to wait and see , I mean , I know the sort of questions they 're going to ask , and they do deserve to hear some answers , I promise you that Jane .
26	We opportunities are privatization but we 've also said that is a threat .
27	But we 've also seen that the various , th that there is a whole range of , of practical day to day issues which have come up which have , have like distorted a s a straightforward progression along those ideological lines tt and in particular over the last we , we 've , we 've identified the political and military factors erm
28	Our image is now very strong but we 've also got the music to carry us through . ’
29	‘ We still have the current chart stuff at competitive prices , but we 've also got 2,000 CDs and videos at less than £4.99 , ’ he says .
30	Where we 've got those conditions great , but we 've also got to find a trade unionism for the rest and the growing majority of employees in Britain .