Example sentences of "but we [verb] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere … he said , but we 'd had enough , began |
| 2 | The boys were big time , but we had to have the sound system , the lighting , the stage — everything had to move at the pace of David 's imagination . |
| 3 | Dad used to put erm a lot on it but we had to have erm the chimney sweep at ours for quite a long time |
| 4 | But we had had to make do with black crepe paper , which was the next best thing . |
| 5 | Kathy said : ‘ The final total is n't in , but we hope to have raised over £1,000 . |
| 6 | Only a few privileged people have seen them , but we hope to have a set in the near future . |
| 7 | Sorry to wake you at this hour but we 've had a host of tasks during the night . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's an amazing opportunity to break in to theatre , but we 've had virtually no response from Jobcentres , ’ a spokeswoman says . |
| 9 | ‘ … embarrassing to have to trouble you like this , but we 've had a bit of bother with the sheep hereabouts . |
| 10 | ‘ But we 've had a great laugh , in fact it 's like a holiday in the north . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , but we 've had such an awful day . |
| 13 | But we 've had a very good evening and we must thank Mr for it . |
| 14 | Er that was automatic ninety th er November ninety three but we 've had a problem with them so we 're negotiating . |
| 15 | Yeah but we 've had we 've had times before Peter when there 's been huge pressure . |
| 16 | But we 've had to bear with it . |
| 17 | Too cold but we 've had to bear with it . |
| 18 | And he came at half past seven and he cleaned it and he looked at it , and he said er it was n't anything that he could see , he thinks it was just down draught , but we 've had winds before . |
| 19 | Yes , but we 've had several frosty weeks ai n't we ? |
| 20 | But we 've had a very very well we 've still got him a good treasurer . |
| 21 | Well I 've had the sniffles at the moment but we 've had a lot of people at work with |
| 22 | I said Just a minute but We 've had a Mrs . |
| 23 | The response is coming through slowly , but we 've had to take a lot of initiatives on our own and we are hoping that others will come and support and back these initiatives . |
| 24 | He can seem a little wild to some people , but we seem to have a way of connecting and there 's hardly any friction between us . |
| 25 | ‘ But we seem to have this thing in Wales about always knocking our best players and looking around to try to put forward rivals who are n't as good . ’ |
| 26 | And the union , I mean I 'm not blaming just NUPE I mean every union but we seem to have stood still and nothing 's happened and th and , and the m , and the members are actually sick of their lies about what , what am I paying all this money for then ? |
| 27 | But we seem to have , right , I 'll , I 'll take that point back . |
| 28 | But we seem to have reached the end of the story . |
| 29 | But we need to have a degree of common ownership of at least the broad parameters of what the world may look like , and we then seek the whole time to simplify down and down and down . |
| 30 | But we have to have some spare capacity in case we want to run for the bus or climb Everest ( where the air is less oxygen-rich ) . |