Example sentences of "but we have [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I miss your mother , I really do — we had our differences but we 'd got the measure of each other , as you might say . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But we had saved the day , and our long friendship . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But we 've turned the corner . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But we 've got the Rosie and Jim . |
| 9 | Yeah , but we 've changed the menu since , I mean we 've changed the erm |
| 10 | ‘ But we have scoured the country and ca n't find one . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We still have similar reasons , but we have lost the drum . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not only did we want to improve something but we have created the wealth to make more resources and improvements available for social needs . |
| 15 | No fundamental changes are , therefore , proposed in the Bill , but we have taken the opportunity to make two improvements in the way in which the charges are levied . |
| 16 | This remains unknown in man , but we have investigated the effects of commonly used anaesthetic agents on tissue protein synthesis in the rat and found that although halothane causes a significant depression of liver protein synthesis , isoflurance did not have such an effect . |
| 17 | Not only do we strip off at the beach , but we have brought the values of the beach inland . |
| 18 | But Carol and I never seem to get time to be able to do these things on each other , but we have had the treatment so we do know that massage really does help you to relax . |
| 19 | but we have shaved the bollocks of a bloke in T A , he was a right like Tintin , so we , we pinned him and shaved his bollocks and then put after shave over it . |
| 20 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |