Example sentences of "but we [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally we will exercise discretion , but we wish to make the sharing of information normal , rather than leaving it up to the client to make the case for access . |
| 2 | We could n't do an awful lot because it was er er classed as a luxury business er and so we , we could n't get an awful lot of photographic paper or films or anything of that sort but we managed to keep the connections up with what we could get . |
| 3 | ‘ Our intention to ballot in this way was already known , but we hoped to get the assurances we wanted from British Rail . |
| 4 | I miss your mother , I really do — we had our differences but we 'd got the measure of each other , as you might say . |
| 5 | Twice he attempted to overtake , but we had reached the top of the hill before a gap in the stream of cars streaking up on our right allowed him to slip in between the lorry and myself . |
| 6 | you u u use your brain a bit more , see now if er they used to come to me , my brother was one , he 'd come to me and he 'd say , right I 've got a heavy lift , so will you come up here and sling it for me but we had to put the slings round the heavy lift , say , I say right I 'll come up and another time we had a railway carriage come down like that 'll be shipped abroad , old railway carriage . |
| 7 | But we had saved the day , and our long friendship . |
| 8 | The boys were big time , but we had to have the sound system , the lighting , the stage — everything had to move at the pace of David 's imagination . |
| 9 | He let us muck around but we had to get the work in at the end of the week . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We still feel there are far too many TV games , but we had to accept the majority decision . ’ |
| 11 | Father Hugh Mcaleese said : ‘ We are devastated , but we intend to restore the church to its former glory . |
| 12 | ‘ The danger was there for all to see , but we failed to heed the warning , ’ he groaned . |
| 13 | But we 've increased the capacity of that pipe , so that if we have some more money eventually , we can er replace the final five yards from our meter to the Severn Trent water main er in some future years , to improve the pressure problems down the whole pipeline . |
| 14 | has been affected on the revenue front mainly in the medical publishing but to some extent in the erm in the financial sector although we 're still absolutely market dominant in that sector but we 've increased the circulation there by ten percent . |
| 15 | But we 've turned the corner . |
| 16 | about the Olympic champion , he 'll be in Rome , he 'll be ready for the World Championships , I think he 's had an easy summer so far , but we 've got the likes of Sergio Lopez who 's just taken my European record away , there 's two Americans ; Kirl Stattel and Mike Barryman who 've just gone under the old World Record , so there 's perhaps a dozen of us that are really shouting and trying to get up to number one position . |
| 17 | But we 've got the Rosie and Jim . |
| 18 | Yeah , but we 've changed the menu since , I mean we 've changed the erm |
| 19 | ‘ The restaurant was closed for a week , with a total loss of power , but we improvised to keep the show on the road . ’ |
| 20 | But we wanted to explore the causes of ill health further . |
| 21 | His salary is a matter of public record , but we wanted to discover the truth about his bank account . |
| 22 | But we need to fill the gap , and by the way colleagues , I think it is appropriate , just to end this particular section of my reply with the comment that at the public services section conference from our count forty percent of the delegates there had never been to a G M B conference before . |
| 23 | But we need to decide the level at which we will set the core curriculum , the point at which individual interpretation begins . |
| 24 | He explained why he sent on Platt : ‘ In the first half we had a great deal of possession but we needed to move the Brazilians about , we needed to hurt them a bit more . |
| 25 | We could have used a different host mother — using ova from one woman , and allowing another to act as the incubator for the conception — but we preferred to use the donor of the egg cell as the incubator , mainly to avoid any risk of rejection . |
| 26 | ‘ But we have scoured the country and ca n't find one . |
| 27 | We do implement such measures where we believe that it is right to do so , but we have opposed the working time directive , for example , because it could have added an extra £5 billion to British industry 's costs . |
| 28 | We still have similar reasons , but we have lost the drum . |
| 29 | I appreciate that there are segregation problems , but we have asked the Government to do more about separating prisoners for safety purposes and they have ignored our advice . |
| 30 | Not only did we want to improve something but we have created the wealth to make more resources and improvements available for social needs . |