Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] but [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'll have to forgive me but I 've never read any of your books . |
| 2 | She 's really beginning to annoy me but I have to get the job done : I just want to go back downstairs . |
| 3 | We do n't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead . |
| 4 | Well , they were expensive if you had to buy them but they had been given to me , along with a pair of golf shoes , by the Italian company which supplied Jack . |
| 5 | Just smells I like wild birds because that 's the animal I like best because they are in the wild you do n't have to cage them but you have the pleasure of them being free , what ? |
| 6 | Erm John 's Dream the National Playwright 's Network actually wrote back to me and said they 're quite happy to read your plays for a fee erm but I intend to re-write that before I put it in er for a reading erm Oh , I I sent a poem called Pleasure to Woman 's Weekly in June last year and I suspect they were actually planning to use it but they 've had a New Year 's clear-out and I got it back yesterday . |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted to phone you but I had no chance … ’ |
| 8 | My mum used to bleach ours but we have n't got one now . |
| 9 | Cranston saw Bonaventure fairly skipping along to greet him but he had no desire to have that bloody cat rubbing up against his leg , so hustled Athelstan out to collect their horses . |
| 10 | I do not rightly understand how the medical men could not save him after the accident since you say the cut seemed small and did not appear to trouble him but I have heard that for the blood to be poisoned it takes only a pin-prick and that a cut where there is manure about can have this effect if not noticed . |
| 11 | He did n't want to force her but he had no alternative . |
| 12 | for the chap to ring me but he has n't rung me yet . |
| 13 | I do n't want to threaten you but you 've forced me into a corner . |
| 14 | Swindon Town are through to the third round of the Coca Cola Cup after a nine-two aggregate win over Torquay … and tonight Oxford United will be trying to join them but they 've got to win at Aston Villa … |
| 15 | Not only did we want to improve something but we have created the wealth to make more resources and improvements available for social needs . |
| 16 | We invited Debbie to join us but she 'd had an invitation from a girlfriend to spend Christmas in Norway and she decided to take that invitation up . |
| 17 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 18 | Again , this I have n't got an example to show you but I have seen one of these that 's caught fire and the only reason it 's caught fire is because this total piece of equipment is only capable of taking a maximum of thirteen amps . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's your father , ’ Spencer said , ‘ I 'm sorry to be the one to tell you but you have to know , he is in financial difficulties . ’ |
| 20 | Oh I was meant to tell you but I 've been so busy . |
| 21 | I do n't want to rush you but I 've booked at the bistro down the road for nine o'clock so we ought to have this drink and go . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Well , Mrs Carrow , I did n't want to bother you but there 's been a man down there the last few mornings , who seems to have been watching us . |
| 23 | We need a signature one signature on unless of course the company says that two people have got to sign it but you have to find that out . |