Example sentences of "but we [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leary said : ‘ My French is only adequate and he does n't speak English but we managed a conversation about the things that matter to us . |
| 2 | ‘ They hit the bar and we were a bit lucky there but we deserved a break because we fought right to the death on a very heavy pitch . ’ |
| 3 | We thought all we had to do was bring the right things from the Store , but we brought a lot of wrong things too . |
| 4 | Being unable to travel ‘ up there ’ in time to review this splendid collection , the ‘ mountain ’ did n't exactly come to me , but we made a ‘ kitchen table ’ job of it … or nearly ! |
| 5 | The profession can not be certain how much this will save , as it depends on the amount provided for when the supply estimates were settled ; but we estimate a saving of £15 million on the assumption that the Government would have provided for a 1.5% increase . |
| 6 | An imitation book with curled up corners and antique dust ‘ is in the worst possible taste , ’ he confirms , ‘ but we sold a quarter of a million last year . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ All quiet , but we kept a round-the-clock watch on the stables last night , just in case . |
| 8 | ‘ But we played a couple of soft ends and let them back into it , ’ said Belliss later . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's true , but we drove a little for our own reasons too . |
| 10 | ‘ No , we do n't get any social security but we got a rent rebate . |
| 11 | Now , that 's really great to me because I mean , you 're really stimulating the youngsters at that age , and quite obviously I could tell you loads of stories the way this neighbourhood engineers er er , scheme works at the moment but as I say we are embarrassed at the moment because , quite obviously , loads of school want us to participate but we got a very shortage of engineers . |
| 12 | ‘ But we got a national emergency on our hands with your name on it . ’ |
| 13 | So we got but we got a hundred percent acting or something and the two masters are gon na take us out , the five of us out to dinner . |
| 14 | That 's the trouble , but we got a note through the door this morning from our friend Kerry . |
| 15 | We know very little about their lives but we get a strong sense of the individuality of each one in their writings . |
| 16 | We only pay about 3.00 a week but we get a lot of food , and an electricity bill , and H.P. on certain things like the fridge and the telly . |
| 17 | At this stage we do not know whether the " dayes ' are general ( which would imply that the missing verb is are ) or particular ; but we get a clearer picture when we come to the second clause " when I / Shin " d " . |
| 18 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 19 | You know , it 's bad defending , but we looked a different side second half , and not much was said at half time . |
| 20 | The jukebox ran itself out but we had a good , old knees-up . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm so sorry to have kept you , but we had a little emergency ! ’ |
| 22 | My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . |
| 23 | I was eyeballing distances at that time , and had no real idea how far Roberto had to clear the out-of-bounds and a wee bank that ran round the hole , but we had a strong breeze behind us going from right to left . |
| 24 | At the 15th he knocked it on to the green comfortably , but we had a long wait because poor old Tommy was in trouble again . |
| 25 | But we had a competitor and we had to act fast . |
| 26 | But we had a great deal of literature in common , and a love of landscape ; we thought ( Dickens excepted ) the same things funny ; and we had some similar slants of vision . |
| 27 | But we had a good time and will definitely go again . |
| 28 | But we had a few other cards up our sleeves we were waiting to play : we 'd brought two furry friends along with us . |
| 29 | ‘ My mum is a bit upset , ’ says Zara , ‘ but we had a lovely letter from Mr Evans saying that he would pay for me to return home at any time during the first three months in England , which we were very grateful for . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not sure if it was ‘ The Reign of Terror ’ story about the French Revolution , or one of the other ones , but we had a terrible time getting Bill to pronounce the word brazier , meaning a rack for burning coals . |