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 | And the supporters been treating me well , the promotion been treating me well , so obviously I never really wanted to move but we had a few problems with the negotiating with the contract and the financial terms was n't quite right so but I 'm glad to say we 've got it right now and you know we both sort of gave a bit and we came to a settlement er which I 'm very pleased about . |
15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
16 | We we we lived but we had a comfortable home , and I er I thought it was a lovely home actually . |
17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
18 | ‘ I 'm so sorry to have kept you , but we had a little emergency ! ’ |
19 | 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 . |
20 | but we 've a lovely lot of daffodils , they 're all out now they 're really beautiful |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
24 | But we have a small advantage in that respect . |
25 | But we have a little time left . |
26 | But we have a greater probability that we shall self-destruct . |
27 | ‘ But we have a hectic business schedule tomorrow , ’ he drawled as the lift doors slid open . |
28 | ‘ You do n't know me , but we have a mutual friend : Alan Dysart . |
29 | but we have a wider profit margin on our wedding crackers . |
30 | But we have a new secretary . |