Example sentences of "but we [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says there should be more work done by local government providing a network of cycle routes — but we felt the only way to make progress on this paritcular section was to do it ourselves . |
| 2 | It was pretty good , but we left the rugged mountains with mixed feelings . |
| 3 | Town team manager Mick McGiven said : ‘ We had fluent movement and good possession , but we left the back door open . |
| 4 | The other companies had good theatres and some good actors , but we had the famous Richard Burbage — and the best plays . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | But we saw the best bit Paulie . |
| 9 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 10 | There were in fact a number of possible candidate keys , for example , ‘ module-name ’ and ‘ course-name ’ , but we chose the primary key as above . |
| 11 | ‘ But we chose the highest quality file servers , because if one of those goes down you lose the whole network . ’ |
| 12 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 13 | Ear defenders may be advisable for long periods of work , but we found the low exhaust tone quieter than that on average-sized petrol mowers . |
| 14 | ‘ But we hit the three-year barrier , ’ Patsy says . |
| 15 | Everyone knew this , but we faced the same problems in increasing efficiency and productivity as in all the other traditional industries like coal and steel . |
| 16 | Erm we also know that base five formwork is up so we started on base five as soon as we can , put as many resources into it as we can we mentioned earlier that er having five hundred people in there made life quite congested but we decided the more people that helped in there the better and er our objective was to get the er wall steelwork up . |
| 17 | We 've been precise on this because this is , if you look at your agenda papers , er quite detailed suggestion , one of the quotas , one of the options er in fact that we , the same about officer 's , erm nine twenty er the basis er , er is , is erm a very near to the that 's thirty five including capital , er we had to go fur further , obviously and , but we picked the Labour figure er and I wonder a little because the advice we have is that once we go over nine twenty places become much more erm , unfortunately costly . |