Example sentences of "but we have a [adj] [noun] " 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 | But we had a loyal staff who helped clear up and we got back into business in 3 days . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | We we we lived but we had a comfortable home , and I er I thought it was a lovely home actually . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm so sorry to have kept you , but we had a little emergency ! ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | but we 've a lovely lot of daffodils , they 're all out now they 're really beautiful |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | But we have a small advantage in that respect . |
| 24 | ‘ But we have a hectic business schedule tomorrow , ’ he drawled as the lift doors slid open . |
| 25 | ‘ You do n't know me , but we have a mutual friend : Alan Dysart . |
| 26 | But we have a new secretary . |
| 27 | I know it 's an emotive subject but we have a good working relationship with the archaeological unit concerned . |
| 28 | This is going to be a very er difficult and expensive application for them but we have a successful coal industry the jobs associated with it we 've got to balance economic interests and environmental interests and I believe we can do so . |
| 29 | Well we generally aim to have I suppose most of our lectures at an A level standard , but we have a significant number for those doing O level , indeed some lectures which can be tailored for either , so anybody very mucg below O level we probably could n't cater for — I think probably because we would n't feel competent , rather than because we do n't want to do it . |
| 30 | I understand the importance of the statement , but we have a heavy day ahead of us . |