Example sentences of "but we have [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 Not many ticks had been added to our bird list , but we 'd earned a very fine tick for our lizard list !
2 If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication .
3 Ah ah it was but it was sanctioned but we had to sign a contract with them .
4 It may be unconscious , but we 've made a decision at some stage about how it 's going to be .
5 But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this .
6 We do n't have any factories or co-ops here in Alcala , but we 've got a marvellous football field .
7 But we 've got a young side at Cardiff now and it 's good for them to play against these players , to see that they 're only human beings after all . ’
8 But we 've got a decent geezer now . ’
9 ‘ I 'm sorry , but we 've got a critically sick horse here . ’
10 But we 've got a fraction in it , so what would you what would you do ?
11 There should really be a comma there but we 've got a funny twist to the rule we do n't put comma before the and do n't put a comma before the and .
12 But we 've got a very close-knit family , in that if two people are n't getting on , everybody in the family will make them be friends .
13 We 've always been close , but we 've got a different relationship now .
14 Well I thought so but we 've got a We think the builders we 've got are excellent .
15 It 's not that she would n't have liked to come , but we 've got a baby now .
16 But we 've got a lot of new ones .
17 He said : ‘ This is a similar challenge to Auxerre , but we 've got a couple of away goals this time .
18 He said : ‘ This is a similar challenge to Auxerre , but we 've got a couple of away goals this time .
19 He said : ‘ This is a similar challenge to Auxerre , but we 've got a couple of away goals this time .
20 Well , er only in the evening , but we 've got a
21 but we 've got a video
22 Well I do n't know why we 've got more , but we 've got a lot .
23 But we 've got a massive sackful of stuff and no one had left us a forwarding address and the landlady had n't been to us about any of them .
24 ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon .
25 Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked .
26 Sorry to wake you at this hour but we 've had a host of tasks during the night .
27 ‘ … embarrassing to have to trouble you like this , but we 've had a bit of bother with the sheep hereabouts .
28 But we 've had a great laugh , in fact it 's like a holiday in the north .
29 They 're really down now , but we 've had a little taste of Europe and the best way to get back in is to start winning League games again .
30 But we 've had a very good evening and we must thank Mr for it .
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