Example sentences of "but [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I saw the plight of the Jews , but I 've also served with the Arabs in M I six of the Field Security Service , from Turkey to Libya , and erm I do n't like what I see . |
2 | ‘ I 've always thought it unlikely , but I 've just heard from George this morning that it is impossible . |
3 | oh Barbados , but we have to seen if their teletext if they let us do , but I 've just talked to Jamaican people and they said their , their friend he got some contact wanting some order , then later on this lady says no it 's best thing to do go |
4 | ‘ But I 've already passed on all such things . ’ |
5 | Cadogan says ferried to question this man till he 's dry , question him to death if necessary , but I 've already spoken to him for hours . |
6 | They 're fixing one on Monday so I can see it but I 've already talked to other people who 've done it and they 're so popular . |
7 | But I 've often thought about buying a mine detector or what ever you call it , and , but you see there was an old churchyard down here too . |
8 | whether that means anything to people who live in Bishop 's Stortford but I 've always lived in Chelmsford and people who wore their hat sort of at a flaunty angle on the back of their heads were always seem to wearing their hats in the Hollywood fashion . |
9 | ‘ I do care a lot about the parish , but I 've always fought against the ‘ clergy wife ’ label . |
10 | But I 've always had at least ten friends who are long term unemployed and we 've always bought each other 's stuff . |
11 | But I 've always got on well with mother-in-law 's . ’ |
12 | But I 've never wanted to be a spy . |
13 | I 've got a Seymour Duncan Convertible amp as well , and I know people say they 've had trouble with reliability , but I 've never travelled with mine so I would n't know ! |
14 | I suppose we must have a few cousins several times removed floating about somewhere or other , but I 've never heard of them . |
15 | ‘ But I 've never heard of anything like this before . ’ |
16 | ‘ But I 've never heard of Parr ! |
17 | It 's just that some of these words say they , they might have used them , I mean I 've done the and the ones but I 've never come upon anyone that 's heard of the , the cant . |
18 | , I do n't know , but I 've never lied until now , then all of a sudden it , I just ca n't |
19 | I 'm like , ‘ I know who he is but I 've never listened to him . ’ |
20 | ‘ I 'm on a short lease but I 've never discussed in personally with the prince at any stage . |
21 | But I 've actually spoken to an even a a real Tyne and Wear Geordie accent |
22 | ‘ I suppose you could say that , but I had never thought of it in those terms . |
23 | I did n't know that they could , but I 'd always sworn to her that I would never involve her in any way and I 've never broken my word . |
24 | Oh , well she told me she was working , but I 'd never heard of , some sewing place , it must be in Wrexham . |
25 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
26 | ‘ Thank you , Elizabeth , but I have already proposed to Sarah , and I 'm quite happy about it . ’ |
27 | But I have since come across three other instances . |
28 | I am married , but I have somehow slipped into an affair with a man at our local squash club . |
29 | But I have also railed against them because instead of investors being able to handle their investments themselves , they have had to buy through a registered plan manager . |
30 | Moments and impressions from this great desert of time remain with me but I have long forgotten in which part of it they occurred . |