Example sentences of "but we [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were asleep , so we did n't wake you ; but we took little Billy to see . |
| 2 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
| 3 | The house , Wychwood , from which I like to think that Eliot derived the name in The Family Reunion , was easily within walking distance ; but we felt some responsibility for getting the great man from London without subjecting him to too much fatigue ; and if my brother reached home by a circuitous route , it was partly in order to show off the beauty of the place . |
| 4 | But we asked another question of the core audience to Radio 4 during the Gulf War coverage . |
| 5 | The Lions selectors have an impassioned Irish performance to thank for that — and , according to coach Gerry Murphy , a little divine inspiration : ‘ We were going to keep it a secret , ’ he quipped , ‘ but we spent last weekend in Lourdes ’ . |
| 6 | Yeah but we spent three hours , Lynne , Malcolm , myself sorting that list out and everybody what was on the stock take |
| 7 | When we began our work on the secondary stages we considered whether to add a fourth profile component , knowledge about language , but we rejected this plan for two reasons . |
| 8 | ‘ But we realised more work was needed on teaching people how to design and implement effectively the training necessary to fill gaps . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It was a hard-fought game , but we played some quality football and won 3-2 . |
| 10 | We could n't have understood the message , but we sensed undisclosed meaning and were afraid . |
| 11 | The men stayed behind but we left next day . |
| 12 | Yeah I know , but we got two hands against your one . |
| 13 | You 're not going to believe this , but we got this place for 399.000.000,00 ! ’ |
| 14 | Yeah but we got three hands against their two . |
| 15 | Well the Germans was shelling and these B things but we had sixty pounder guns then . |
| 16 | But we had continuous climbing conditions from late November to March , reaching a peak during the cold , calm spell of continental air during early February . |
| 17 | No we did n't because I had bought various things , I like antiques so does my husband , I 'd bought various things while he was away in this erm , the card table and er , I had a new place of stuff , er but since we 've been , but we had odd chairs did n't we ? |
| 18 | But we had various versions of M1 , but we did n't ever get rid of the first version , so we could , the one that Suzannah did and then the one that I changed , and then the one that the Committee changed , all exist so that we can back track what we actually did . |
| 19 | ‘ But we had beautiful weather and a marvellous time , ’ said Mrs Williams . |
| 20 | Erm , great job , thanks a lot , unreal , nice one , topper , you 're a star , champion , thanks for doing that for me , and this one was a bit disputed , but we had top banana at the end . |
| 21 | And I ca n't remember how it first came up , but we had this argument . |
| 22 | ‘ We regretted having to do it , but we had more people attending the Christmas parties last year than we have employees at Wilton . ’ |
| 23 | He agreed , but we had some difficulty in deciding what . |
| 24 | I knew almost nothing about physics but we shared some jokes about the Rome telephone system . |
| 25 | But we saw two slices of great skill for his goals . ’ |
| 26 | There was a lot of sympathy for the concept , but we saw real difficulties about enshrining it in the planning machinery without far more information about how one would take the concept of sustainable development forward in district plans . |
| 27 | In the last section we have come to the interesting conclusion that B may alone exist of all our variables but we reached that conclusion on a magnet shape not much used in practice . |
| 28 | But we chose this sector because it is growing . ’ |
| 29 | But we wanted this album to be right , so we took our time , organised it all carefully , waited until Dave was available , and together we put a lot of thought and effort into it … ’ |
| 30 | But we refused both invitations . |