Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have always felt rather uncomfortable in her presence . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I travel an awful lot with my career but I have always kept up my links with Derry and the football club has always been such a part of me . ’ |
| 3 | But I have always drawn back . |
| 4 | But I have always shied away from using it on tables , perhaps feeling that a table should be capable of taking a certain amount of abuse . |
| 5 | But I have always worked hard and paid my taxes . |
| 6 | I have to observe that there are some business leaders who have apparently succeeded in doing this , very frequently by forming conglomerates ; but I have never believed very much in the conglomerate . |
| 7 | Percy took her hand , saying , ‘ Definitely my art is diffused , but I have never stooped so low as to even touch a guitar . ’ |
| 8 | But now , it sounds crazy but I have never felt so happy . ’ |
| 9 | I have taken engines out of cars , rebuilt them and then put them back , but I have never carried out a conversion before . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been on the bus since then and there has been nothing quite as bad but I have still heard very loud swearing and seen emergency doors open . ’ |
| 11 | But I have deliberately left out in both those chapters the actual details of weight lost or gained , and have done the same in my own story at the beginning of the book . |
| 12 | But I have seldom got very close to these quick , nervous birds . |
| 13 | But I have seldom got very close to these quick , nervous birds . |
| 14 | But we have already seen above that we can not do without an intensification of growth , the development of this petty-bourgeois farm . |
| 15 | But we have just worked out what the rational expectation of is , and we can therefore write : |
| 16 | Changes have occurred but they have generally done so gradually over much longer intervals than changes of government — in part as a result of changes in official thinking , in larger part through alterations in the complex relationships between economic ideas , political ideology and the force of economic circumstance . |
| 17 | But they have signally failed so far to build an intellectual constituency in wider circles of the kind that gave Thatcherism — which had little intellectual depth of its own — the basis on which to construct a new kind of politics . |
| 18 | In applying this test the courts have upheld fairly broad conditions , but they have also struck down a number by using concepts which are open to debate . |
| 19 | These changes have made congress more democratic , but they have also added immeasurably to the difficulties that presidents face in trying to obtain congressional cooperation . |
| 20 | ‘ No one is ever forced to be in our films , but they have always queued up to appear , ’ he says . |
| 21 | We have had a few meetings about the rule but they have always brought in extra bodies to out-vote us . |
| 22 | These are questions which were first posed over fifty years ago , but they have obviously made little lasting impact on a literature where the expenditure flows depicted in elaborations of the model have been the principal focus of attention . |
| 23 | The Bayles were quite plentiful in the dale for many years — my great-great-grandfather was a John Bayles — but they have all gone now , except me . |
| 24 | But they have now lost only one of their last six games . |