Example sentences of "[adv] but [pers pn] have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 2 | By Christmas it was really getting me down but I had to keep going . |
| 3 | Her new liver took straight away but she had to go on a ventilator because she was having problems with her lungs . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It could be found locally but we have to cover as many angles as we can . ’ |
| 5 | Yes oh yes another about another six years probably but we had to come back to educate the kids . |
| 6 | I mean he 'd ha he had a pack up but they had to have money to buy ra |
| 7 | No it was nice now but I had to sit like that with my arms up my sleeves . |
| 8 | I think he 's telling the truth now but I had to threaten him with the Juvenile Bureau , the Welfare and God knows what before he did . |
| 9 | We used the flour because the flour would go bad then we we had to supply that the commissioners put it in originally but we had to keep it going out of our seven and a tanner . |
| 10 | I would be paid well but I had to keep my mouth shut . ’ |
| 11 | and what we doing now is London , London yesterday and you , you should have been at home today but he had to go back to London again so I did n't keep him very much , given up is it ? |
| 12 | BRIAN LARA cracked a sparkling 106 as the West Indies won their Australian tour opener today but he had to share the spotlight with Dennis Lillee . |
| 13 | He let us muck around but we had to get the work in at the end of the week . ’ |
| 14 | And he goes , er I 'm not sure ah , and he nearly let us in there and then but he had to go and see somebody else and he said tell them to go away ! |
| 15 | They got there but they had to go in second gear look |
| 16 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 17 | and then finally we could finish off with Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men or whatever they want to call themselves from and they could say well we 're the guys in between we 've got clients out there but we have to deal with printers and estimators and this is what life is like for us . |
| 18 | The layout was already there but I have to admit that , given the choice , I would n't necessarily have designed the garden that way . |
| 19 | He says the RSPCA has been following the case closely but it has to accept the court decision . |