Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should have been a goal , but everyone knew we had a game . |
| 2 | ‘ Ah , but I knew we had a first-class lifeguard on board . ’ |
| 3 | However , I did not find the professional ambience all that conducive , but I knew I had to do something with my voice . |
| 4 | As a concession to the New Wave I wore a black shirt , black jeans , white socks and black suede shoes , but I knew I had uninteresting hair . |
| 5 | But I knew I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 6 | But I knew I had to look , so slowly I peeped round the door . |
| 7 | ‘ I had no previous experience of minefields , but I knew I had to do something , ’ Dennis said at RAF Stafford . |
| 8 | But I knew I had become involved in something too uniquely bizarre to miss , or to spoil , through lack of patience or humour . |
| 9 | ‘ The bone was sticking out of my arm but I knew I had to carry on . |
| 10 | ’ But I knew I had to get rid of that Jackson' . |
| 11 | ‘ It was tough at the start but I knew I had to hang on to my serve at all costs , ’ she said afterwards . |
| 12 | Unknown then , of course , but I knew she had talent . |
| 13 | I do n't know where this Doctor had this idea from but I do n't know how many years ago , but I remember I had my Co-op news every week and , and he said that he could see us going a full circle and I 'm just wondering when he 's gon if I 'll be alive when it comes round again because I , I do n't think that these big mass stores erm as I say they 're all right you see , people with plenty of money with a car they could fill the freezer up . |
| 14 | maybe it was the battle of the Somme , I do n't remember , but I remember I had to go carrying the basket , and mother would go and call on these poor people who had lost their their families . |
| 15 | I laughed sometimes when he chased intruders from the garden , but I wished he had n't been aware of the little cat , although I think he only wanted to frighten it away , not kill it . |
| 16 | I it , it was , it was alright f for people wh who were used to that sort of thing but I mean they had n't all the mechanization in the mines then that they have now . |
| 17 | but I mean they had a lot as well at one time did n't they ? |
| 18 | Well I think we were very lucky at the start that were were just starting up in England and they were actually more into what we were doing than er to the extent that I think that maybe other record companies might have laughed at them and said they 've no hope of surviving but I mean they had the Furies with er Sweet Sixteen and then they had er about six hit singles from Foster and Allen and about six or seven albums and then they went down to Daniel O'Donald which became an enormous success so I think when that happened then all record companies kind of said well maybe there is something here . |
| 19 | perhaps he 's been forewarned and just swapped over sides with , but I mean we had a full wind and light through then , well sort of |
| 20 | Perhaps they did n't want to scare me and thought it better not to say too much , but I wish they had said something . |
| 21 | ‘ But I wish we had played it more for comedy — it was too depressing . |
| 22 | But I wish I had just stayed a worker , |
| 23 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 24 | ‘ No , ’ said Benton , ‘ but I wish I had . |
| 25 | ‘ But I wish I had known , at Lincoln . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But I wish she had confided in me — told me her reasons . |
| 27 | But I wish it had n't been tonight , for tonight we have been invited to Gemma 's house for supper . |
| 28 | — No , said Davin , but I wish you had not told me . |
| 29 | Thessy asked me what McIllvanney had wanted , but I said it had been nothing very much for I was too disgusted with the man to tell Thessy the truth . |
| 30 | He really wanted me to leave the Order earlier , but I said I had to go on helping . |