Example sentences of "but we have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . |
| 2 | ‘ But we had a great time ! |
| 3 | tried to call you both saturday nite and a couple of times on sunday — but no answer … the spurs game was just OK — but we had a great time at the newcastle game vs. scousers — great atmosphere — we stood among the newcastle supporters ( north bank ? ) and they made hell each time cole put it behind grobbelar … |
| 4 | But we had a great deal of literature in common , and a love of landscape ; we thought ( Dickens excepted ) the same things funny ; and we had some similar slants of vision . |
| 5 | We did n't see him , but we had a superb seafood meal in a trattoria on a hill and found ourselves adopted by a shaggy island dog , another hazard of Mediterranean voyaging . |
| 6 | ‘ He did , but we had a slight disagreement on the way . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not sure if it was ‘ The Reign of Terror ’ story about the French Revolution , or one of the other ones , but we had a terrible time getting Bill to pronounce the word brazier , meaning a rack for burning coals . |
| 8 | But we had a good time and will definitely go again . |
| 9 | That was n't music , but we had a good time … and then , I do n't know , we do talk about other things , particularly I suppose the kind of fixes we 're both in . " |
| 10 | But we had a good time . |
| 11 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 12 | I was eyeballing distances at that time , and had no real idea how far Roberto had to clear the out-of-bounds and a wee bank that ran round the hole , but we had a strong breeze behind us going from right to left . |
| 13 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 14 | We we we lived but we had a comfortable home , and I er I thought it was a lovely home actually . |
| 15 | ‘ My mum is a bit upset , ’ says Zara , ‘ but we had a lovely letter from Mr Evans saying that he would pay for me to return home at any time during the first three months in England , which we were very grateful for . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm so sorry to have kept you , but we had a little emergency ! ’ |
| 17 | Unfortunately that empty but we had a little light entertainment when you first came here er especially the way you rode your bicycles er we , we sincerely hoped that you could fly your aeroplanes a little better than that . |
| 18 | We had realism in EastEnders and comedy in Coronation Street — but we had no soapy saga for kids , about kids and their problems . |
| 19 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 20 | but we had the same thing with , course it 's going back Joan 's generation er see younger generation altogether than mine but our , our lives were well we 'll say well my father was in the Secret Service , in the government , Scotland Yard but erm |
| 21 | but we 've a lovely lot of daffodils , they 're all out now they 're really beautiful |
| 22 | They all point to Meredith Putt — but we 've no firm evidence to offer a court . |
| 23 | ‘ Ellis 's case is strengthened , obviously , but we 've no more evidence . |
| 24 | We are trying to find some kind of intellectual humanisation which will respect market economic principles , but we have a great distaste for the social Darwinism of Milton Friedman . |
| 25 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
| 26 | ‘ We have somewhere between £22,000 and £23,000 in the bank and there is cash still to come in , but we have a long way to go . ’ |
| 27 | But we have a small advantage in that respect . |
| 28 | But we have a little time left . |
| 29 | But we have a greater probability that we shall self-destruct . |
| 30 | ‘ But we have a hectic business schedule tomorrow , ’ he drawled as the lift doors slid open . |