Example sentences of "but [adv] [pers pn] have [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The captain remonstrated , but eventually he had no option but to give it to her . |
| 2 | But presumably he had a place to go , and he would prefer to keep that problem to himself . |
| 3 | Oh , if it was bought two or three years ago , well I well obviously I could n't say , but obviously they have the option to read the policy at that point . |
| 4 | But suddenly he had an idea . |
| 5 | ‘ At first I thought it was Dame Agatha , but only you had the power and money to hire horsemen . |
| 6 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 7 | But already I have the impression of warm spring sunshine . |
| 8 | But tonight it had no power to lull her into unconsciousness . |
| 9 | But finally he had an envelope of papers in one hand and his wallet in the other and Bruno was clutching a wad of Deutsch-marks and challenging Maxim with a twisted leer to say something about that . |
| 10 | But somehow I had no desire to move on . |
| 11 | For the end of the fourth and early fifth centuries Gregory was able to use the Spanish historian Orosius , and the works of two otherwise unknown authors , Sulpicius Alexander and Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus , but thereafter he had no historian to follow . |
| 12 | But still I have no doubt at all it remains erm at the top of the international league and is much admired elsewhere . |
| 13 | So we have two phenomena here , one of which is gating , the opening and closing in a simple on a simple er in simple response to a stimulus , but also we have a phenomenon of inactivation , in which the channel is left in a state where it 's unable to respond . |
| 14 | Really , I was too shagged to bother , but also I had an idea she would pass on peacefully in the night without any more help from me . |
| 15 | When we got married there were no wedding cakes , no wedding do 's , you were just glad to get married , you thought you were going to be better off , but really you 'd no idea . |
| 16 | ‘ I tend to shower when I go to the gym , but often I have a bath in the evening with my son . |
| 17 | ’ They virtually killed off our season when they beat us in the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge last year , but now we have the incentive of setting up another Mersey derby if we win . ’ |
| 18 | But now she had an air of confidence a bloom on her skin , a light in her eyes . |
| 19 | His pace did n't slacken , but now he had a reference point , he could see exactly how far needed to be covered and he felt hopeful . |
| 20 | But now he had the advantage , and he intended to use it … |
| 21 | Wycliffe glanced back at the house and again saw the seated figure in the upstairs room , but now he had the impression that the figure was facing him , looking out of the side window . |
| 22 | He was following a shadow , but now he had an idea about where it was leading him . |
| 23 | The percentage of sales accounted for by each of these market segments is given below : At the 1986 level of demand the company was operating at full capacity , but today it has an excess of manufacturing capacity . |
| 24 | But intellectually they had no weight . |
| 25 | but even they had a problem and this is more deeper more philosophical , but I mean I , I really feel that sweep out the streets , something has gone badly wrong and , and that an effect not just to those individuals , but greater fabric . |
| 26 | But here we have a situation where proxy votes from the manager of Woolworths and the local Boots the Chemist , have steamrollered through this motion . ’ |
| 27 | But here you have a piece of beading . |
| 28 | But then they had a cycling club , at chapel , and so we tended to go Saturdays , and then I started walking and youth hostelling . |
| 29 | But then they had a habit of melting into society , and in the meantime many had been the expensive guests of the German taxpayer . |
| 30 | But then we had a spell of bad weather during haytiming , a difficult situation at the best of times , and I simply could not manage . |