Example sentences of "[noun] but have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 2 | He knew from his work with the emergency services that there were particular dangers in flooded quarries but had not known that Bellrock Quarry was flooded . |
| 3 | He gave no reply but had n't believed her . |
| 4 | The accent was good enough to fool Canadian-born Bernard Braden , who had appeared in The War Lover but had not met Crawford during the filming , into thinking he really was American . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ the fellow scratched his head , ‘ from what I gather , they had been rolled into the marsh but had n't sunk . |
| 6 | Chelmsford coroner Malcolm Weir was told American police were still investigating the crime but had not made any arrests . |
| 7 | Essex feel geographically rather remote from the Crystal Palace but have kindly offered to organise the 1982 event . |
| 8 | For some time I have been thinking of increasing it to £50pa but have n't got to the bank with this weather . |
| 9 | Forensic scientists have scoured the scene but have not come up with any conclusive evidence . |
| 10 | Rest of time must have gone on fruitless speculations as to why Coventry end without similar paperwork , could it be in post room , could it be mistake of Coventry end 's secretary , did Coventry end actually have it on desk but had n't looked ? |
| 11 | According to the rules established by Lanfranc for refugee inhabitants of nunneries who had fled from the Normans but had not taken monastic vows , Gunhilda was eligible for marriage . |
| 12 | The Millmoor club were due to give Ford a free transfer but have now indicated that they may have a change of heart following the keeper 's fine run at Scarborough . |
| 13 | Fifty years ago doctors had recognised that there was a growing epidemic of lung cancer in Western countries but had not identified its origins . |
| 14 | Even if it is assumed that actual bodily harm has been inflicted in these circumstances , the defendant has inflicted it during intercourse but has not inflicted it in order to have or continue having sexual intercourse . |
| 15 | These new data have made for better informed controversies but have not resolved them all . |
| 16 | Anthea has only just stepped into Yvette 's shoes but has already made pals with the other presenters and , course , Bonnie the dog . |
| 17 | It said the deluge had eased the drought caused by several years of dry winters but had not ended it . |
| 18 | The basic framework of that popular culture was fairly obvious for urban workers not only lived close together in distinctive communities but had also begun to pick up the rudiments of an education and they had both savings and time to spare . |
| 19 | The State prosector had demanded heavier sentences but the court judged that the two had not carried out their plan but had only discussed it . |
| 20 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 21 | Of the non-participating countries ( i ) the Greek government announced on July 12 , 1990 , its intention to do so in 1993 if government fiscal measures were successfully implemented ; ( ii ) the Prime Minister of Portugal , Aníbal Cavaço Silva , was known to favour early participation in the ERM although there was division within the government as to the exact timing ; and ( iii ) the United Kingdom government had declared its intention to join the ERM but had not given any commitment as to when . |
| 22 | Where you have bought your new home but have n't exchanged contracts on your existing property . |
| 23 | Where you have bought your new property and exchanged contracts on the sale of your existing home but have n't completed . |
| 24 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 25 | Hatim immediately applied for the job but had since discovered that so had eleven out of fifteen professors in his department , and he was not hopeful of success . |
| 26 | Robert Chalmers meets the man who helped Pink Floyd to fame but has never scaled music 's financial heights |
| 27 | Oxford Pest Control 's newest technician John Rilby had only been with the company four days but had already made his mark . |
| 28 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 29 | Charlton recalls Aston Villa 's Paul McGrath but has also opted for Middlesbrough 's Alan Kernaghan , who wins only his fifth cap . |
| 30 | Of the six patients with poor or absent gall bladder emptying ( non-function ) two had patient cystic ducts after treatment of perforated empyemas but have since developed contracted , thick walled gall bladders . |