Example sentences of "but we [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
| 2 | But we make common cause in attaching more significance to them than do the theories ( except perhaps for Idealism ) discussed so far . |
| 3 | We could n't have understood the message , but we sensed undisclosed meaning and were afraid . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ But we had beautiful weather and a marvellous time , ’ said Mrs Williams . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The brakes can be used fiercely to minimise the roll , but we let aerodynamic drag do most of the work , leaving them to slow us to taxi speed and steer onto the taxiway ( still ineffectually prodding the rudder pedals ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Individual homes tend to be designed around the needs of a particular occupier , but we need iconoclastic houses to develop ideas . |
| 12 | So not only must we establish that we have mutual life goals , but we need reasonable assurance that each partner has adequate commitment to those goals to persevere . |
| 13 | But we need other information to ‘ complete the picture ’ . |
| 14 | But we need medical supplies , especially the new medicines which the war has developed — penicillin , mepacrine , M & B , which have proved so effective in the liberation campaign . |
| 15 | All of us were working on no salary , just expenses , but we found nice facilities on 58th Street and were taught to charge everything . |
| 16 | People offered us support , financial and whatnot , but we needed physical support , we 're a very small community and in a way we were left on our own . |
| 17 | But we acquire new houses to compensate for that . |
| 18 | But we find certain companies actually want the qualities that older people bring — experience , dependability and commitment . |
| 19 | But we find cortical allocation ratios of 3.29 ( R54 ) and 5.93 ( R151 ) in favour of the foveal-central retinal projection . |
| 20 | ‘ It has been a closed shop for years but we conducted extensive lobbying of other clubs this time . |
| 21 | ‘ But we want proper pedestrianisation in High Row and Skinnergate . |
| 22 | Alright , not only do we have competing products on the farm , but we have joint products on the farm , in that if you rear sheep , sheep are not only used for the meat that they produce , but also the wheat the er , the wool that 's on , that 's on their backs . |
| 23 | ‘ We could build a supercar today if we wanted to , but we have other priorities right now . |
| 24 | It might do , no not in our branch , well yeah , alright it does n't crop up but we have other words for it . |
| 25 | Erm , we would think of others , would n't we , not only do we have our own National Anthem , but we have other songs that that arouses from time to time . |
| 26 | ‘ Tyne Tees then made a request to transmit the match in the Tyne Tees area but we have strict rules about live transmissions in our contract with ITV and these could not be met . ’ |
| 27 | But the movement — I suppose on the whole I am sympathetic towards the movement , but we have different images of what that movement is. erm the sort of image in the media is often very misleading . |
| 28 | We were made so welcome that the evening of our last visit to the Club was a sad one , but we have happy memories of our time with the 1200th Branch . |
| 29 | It was like Coalite , er when we first came here , oh yes it was , yes , but we have electric fires of course as well to , what we did because we were both out working all the time , we had electric fires and I think my husband , husband had them allied to a timeswitch and they came on before we came in , an hour or so , before we came in this room and in that room |
| 30 | A spokesman for the company said : ‘ You ca n't get away from sewage smells at a sewage plant but we do various things to help reduce the nuisance . ’ |