Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 2 | But mostly I 've been working in television . ’ |
| 3 | But perhaps I 've been misinformed , like , for I understand you do n't read the Bible . ’ |
| 4 | But perhaps he 'd been over-excited . |
| 5 | But already it has been dubbed ‘ The Movie From Hell ’ after stars moaned about constant script changes and cameramen threatened to walk out . |
| 6 | This is a decently boring contest in which Mr Gould will sensibly make some points of principle and Mr Smith will be elected , but already it has been turned into an eisteddfod of exegesis . |
| 7 | President Bill Clinton has been in the White House just a month but already he 's been proposed for Oxford University 's highest honour . |
| 8 | She wished she could stand in the night and laugh , but already she had been heard . |
| 9 | But nevertheless it 's been done and the debate can be held under the auspices of the District Plan . |
| 10 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 11 | But lately he has been losing rather too many important matches . |
| 12 | Glenda Grower 's hair , auburn and shiny , was normally tied in a neat bun at the back of her head , but tonight it had been allowed to stream glamorously down her back . |
| 13 | ‘ I may not be of your persuasion but tonight I have been persuaded that the world is reaching a turning-point in its history and that the ancient biblical promise to your people is about to be redeemed . |
| 14 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 15 | er but gradually they 've been building the workforce back up again , |
| 16 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 17 | But now she 's been told she ca n't . |
| 18 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 19 | The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package . |
| 20 | But now it 's been renovated … and the ballroom has become a factory floor . |
| 21 | Merymose had already seen the body , but now he had been deputed by an increasingly impatient Kenamun to visit the victim 's parents . |
| 22 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
| 23 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
| 24 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 25 | But now I have been given |
| 26 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 27 | But even they had been known to take direct action when driven to desperation . |
| 28 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 29 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 30 | She was surprised by his hatred sometimes , but then he 'd been born there and grown up , while she was second-generation American . |