Example sentences of "but we [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some said they 'd , they 'd be interested in playing , they knew how to play certain things and others wanted to play others and that 's how we started , and in a matter of a year the new headquarters at er Lowestoft was being opened , by the Dutchess of Kent , and we decided that the band was going to play at that one and you can imagine , and it was all ready and they were playing music , but I 'm not sure what , what quality music it was , and blow me on the week before , the band leader , the conductor decided he could n't play because he had a sprained wrist so we were left without a conductor even , but we managed to get another conductor and we played and I do n't know what it sounded like , but the Dutchess of Kent was very kind , she said the music sounded lovely .
2 ‘ We were having fun with the children but we seemed to lose each other , ’ says Davina .
3 It sounded okay but we kept getting these fumes .
4 It was next door to the Infants School but we had heard terrifying stories about life there .
5 Me : But we had to buy two books of Metro tickets .
6 We did not exactly quarrel , but we started unloading pent-up resentments and frustrations .
7 In summary , Mr Chairman , the overall mortality rate for disease , for T U R P , over the northern region was point three percent and this compares very well with the large published theories from America but we did find large inter-site variations for both mortality and major morbidity rates .
8 Still waiting for a lot of the reports to come in , but we did have one winner on Guess the Scores this afternoon .
9 But we did have this idea that the whole tribe went around together .
10 Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat .
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