Example sentences of "but [conj] he have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appeared that the roof Billy had fallen off was in one Coroner 's jurisdiction , but where he 'd landed was in another 's . |
| 2 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 3 | The prosecution accepted that the notebook proved Mr Thompson had been involved in the distribution of obscene material , a charge the countess had levelled at him earlier in the trial but that he had denied . |
| 4 | He remembered not only his father 's harshness , but that he had worked hard and struggled to give both children a good education , holidays abroad and a comfortable home , all things he 'd never had himself . |
| 5 | Anthony returned soon after five o'clock with the news that there was no penicillin in the city at all , but that he had telephoned everyone he could think of who might supply it and had sent a telegram to UNRRA headquarters . |
| 6 | It was no longer that he had been a member of the murder gang , but that he had presided over a meeting of UDA officers in order to plan it . |
| 7 | In sentencing him , Justice Kemal Bokhary said that the offences committed by Li had been " very serious indeed " but that he had taken into account the accused 's good record and his " contributions to the community in the past years " . |
| 8 | The writer remarked that he had ‘ never doubted but that he had succeeded in his place by a commission from the Treasury untill of late that I discovered that he only officiated by orders and an interim warrand from the Commissioners of Customs ’ . |
| 9 | Mosley , arguing that Spengler 's understanding of caesarism was profound but that he had failed to see the potential in modern science to rejuvenate society , saw fascism as a ‘ mutiny against destiny ’ . |
| 10 | Ten days later he wrote to his sister saying that he had been asked to write an essay about Baldwin , but that he had refused , for he wished neither to lie nor to publish the truth , which he then proceeded to outline : |
| 11 | The fact that Marc had registered her exact words seemed to say that they meant something — that he had n't simply dismissed what she had yelled out from the shower , but that he had remembered and , as it seemed now , had brooded over them for some time . |
| 12 | Kant does not think he is putting forward a doctrine on the basis of which ordinary morality can be criticised , but that he has formulated the principles by which all good people implicitly know they should , and in their hearts do , judge their conduct . |
| 13 | So deviation is a matter of degree , and at some indefinite point it becomes significant not that a writer has chosen x rather than y or z , but that he has chosen x at all . |
| 14 | He reveals that in fact he is Szendrey , but that he has had to change his name in order to escape persecution by the Communists . |
| 15 | He had no official status and no powers of arrest , but once he 'd identified Alina then the two officers along with him would have been able to detain her on immigration charges . |
| 16 | Her mother might pose a bit of a problem , but once he had seen Liza he could , maybe , win the old girl round . |
| 17 | Napoleon III was mild and gentle in his manner and in his dealings with people , but once he had made up his mind , he was inflexible and he was resolved to marry Eugénie . |
| 18 | The causeway commanded a view of all this region of the moor , but once he had jumped down and was in the shallow bowl of Goughdale , he could see nothing except the remains of surface workings and the louring slopes of Big Allen . |
| 19 | Miss Warburton said she had not told him how she felt , but once he had asked her if she loved him . |
| 20 | He 'd never seen his mother or his father reading it , but once he had opened it himself . |
| 21 | Darren had always been a good and well-behaved boy but once he had returned home he had been waking repeatedly in the night and been difficult to manage in the day . |
| 22 | They had listened meekly , shamed by his anger and , like children , trying to think of ways to please him ; but once he had left the billiard room he knew that the feuds would start once more to germinate . |
| 23 | It could be difficult persuading Eyre to undertake the direction of a play , but once he had committed himself his absorption was total . |
| 24 | no , no , but once he 's taken it and then he 's come round and erm he realizes what it 's , what he 's done , yeah . |
| 25 | His ‘ devils ’ prepare for him notes of his material but once he has gone into court he has to take entire responsibility on his own shoulders . ’ |
| 26 | And David in , that psalm which we read earlier , in psalm twenty three , he paints the picture of how the good shepherd , not only seeks out the lost sheep but once he has brought him back , once he has rescued the , a lost sheep , he care for it . |
| 27 | But although he had mustered a large army the siege went badly for him . |
| 28 | But if he had to go he would go alone . |
| 29 | but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years . |
| 30 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |