Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] have [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a third serving of a bankruptcy notice in 1911 , Wilson claimed not only that the Federation had inspired the plaintiff , a seaman called Nielsen , to take the action , but that they had moved the plaintiff from place to place so that he could not be found , making it impossible to discharge the union 's debt to him . |
| 2 | Kant does not think he is putting forward a doctrine on the basis of which ordinary morality can be criticised , but that he has formulated the principles by which all good people implicitly know they should , and in their hearts do , judge their conduct . |
| 3 | I admitted he visited me but that I 'd had a history of violence with him , and anyway I 'd got an injunction . |
| 4 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
| 5 | She said she had not wanted to die but that she had taken the tablets to calm herself down in order to get some sleep . |
| 6 | It found that women often felt fairly unsure of their ability in DIY matters , but once they had breached the confidence barrier many regularly tackled demanding jobs and felt that their results were as good or better than those achieved by the professional . |
| 7 | But once they had left the house , and were at last too far away to hear her aunt 's and uncle 's farewells , or to see them as they stood outside in the yard , silhouetted against the lighted kitchen , excitement began to creep into Ruth and her spirits began to lift . |
| 8 | ‘ They used to pull my leg , but once they 'd had a go they soon changed their minds . ’ |
| 9 | But once you 've experienced the peace of mind that this insurance gives you , we 're confident you 'll want to continue with your valuable protection . |
| 10 | And er would have erm perceived that he was n't greatly hampered by it , but once you 've got a surgeon who is going to get a fat fee he did say to him are you sure you want this done |
| 11 | Mixing up bottles of formula , on the other hand , sounds fiddly , but once you 've got the hang of it , it 's really quite straightforward . |
| 12 | But once you have unfolded an ordnance survey map and made the cheese and pickle sandwiches , it 's hard to change your mind , and so on a hot June day I set off up the zig-zagging tourist path from Glen Nevis at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 13 | They had listened meekly , shamed by his anger and , like children , trying to think of ways to please him ; but once he had left the billiard room he knew that the feuds would start once more to germinate . |
| 14 | Where Maggie had found him she did n't know , but once she had dragged the equipment inside the shelter she was very glad that he had . |
| 15 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 16 | But although he had mustered a large army the siege went badly for him . |
| 17 | Brazil was a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , but although it had signed the 1967 Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America ( the Treaty of Tlatelolco — see p. 22505 ) it had not signed the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT — see p. 22787 ) , and for this reason had been allowed no international shipments of nuclear fuel since 1978 . |
| 18 | Those Marshalls sure sound great , ’ but although I 'd done the work on them it did n't really help me a lot . |
| 19 | Oh , I will agree that the electronic is very versatile , but if one has to justify a punchcard model , then the electronic would need even more justification . |
| 20 | But if we 've had a really serious news bulletin that just makes me feel more jolly . |
| 21 | But if we have to make an explicit assumption that living creatures , or men , do actually exist in order to make an inferential paraphrase work , then a reductivist analysis fails to achieve its purpose and we are back exactly where we began . |
| 22 | If they have an arrow in the gold they are paid two shillings ( no decimalisation here ) , if they have a hit in the red , blue or black they receive one shilling , but if they have hit the outer white the bowman has to pay one shilling into the pool . |
| 23 | Erm but if somebody has had a gap for whatever reason , it is often the only method of actually covering it if you want to do something that involves the teachers ' superannuation scheme . |
| 24 | But if someone had had an accident and could not work , his shaikh consulted other elderly men before making a levy , or before drawing on the lineage bank account . |
| 25 | But if I had to choose a hunter for work in a particular type of country I should have a pretty good idea which would be the best animal to pick , though I might not be able to tell you how I went about it . ’ |
| 26 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 27 | If I need to create a fancy-looking letter , I use Word , but if I 've got a lot of writing to do , then it 's into DOS-based Q&A . |
| 28 | But if she had expected a reaction of guilty surprise she was disappointed . |
| 29 | ‘ But if he has done a bunk , you 'd expect him to take his collection with him , would n't you ? |
| 30 | Yeah , well that was , yeah but if you 'd seen the film you would of |