Example sentences of "but we have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 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 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | procedure but we 'd already done that . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We can stretch our legs and have some coffee and something to eat , but we 'd better keep going , ’ he said . |
| 10 | But we 'd better hurry up . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nigel : OK , OK — but we 'd better hurry . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | ‘ We did consider replacing Monty , but we had already shot half the movie , ’ said Dore Schary . |
| 15 | But we had already gone further than that and use child resistant caps on products wherever we can . |
| 16 | I was indeed rather dubious about the whole idea , but we had n't been getting very far and there seemed to be no harm in just finding out some more about it . |
| 17 | But we had n't seen him perform . |
| 18 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'd done the Exhilarator course in the evening but we had n't found anything — except that Cawthorne does n't like women much , and blacks not at all . ’ |
| 20 | Erm we done a little but we had n't done that much yet , but my sister tells me as we go , as the year go on and do a bit more about it . |
| 21 | And he gets the jar cor she said that 's disgusting dad she said and he had course he blames all of us for having some but we had n't touched them . |
| 22 | She was nearly hysterical , with some reason if what she said about the Germans was true , but we had not seen Anna . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | But we had just traversed the Cosmiques Arête to get there . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We never had much to eat in ordinary times , but we had less now and us kids were really glad of the extra slice of bread and jam that we were given for our school breakfast . |
| 27 | But we had only one serviceable skyhook . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There were several clergy taking part in the service , but we had only one 1928 Revised Prayer Book , which was passed round . |
| 30 | It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made . |