Example sentences of "but have [adv] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has the size to make a chaser but has yet to fill out . |
| 2 | Black gravel shows the fish 's colours well , but has not caught on in Britain as much as in Europe . |
| 3 | But Li Ka-shing , head of Cheung Kong , confirmed he is ‘ interested in some of Olympia 's assets , but has not come up with any solid plans ’ . |
| 4 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 5 | The government wanted to stop subsidising it by the end of 1991–92 , but has now given up that idea . |
| 6 | The opening scene of the movie features the gangsters discussing the true meaning of the lyrics , with one insisting that it 's about a nymphomaniac who 's been around but has now met up with ‘ some John Holmes motherfucker ’ — in other words a guy well hung enough to make her feel ‘ like a virgin ’ again . |
| 7 | Her exclusion from Italy was less important , but had also tidied up a dangling thread of history . |
| 8 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 9 | By their mid teens young people were able to earn , and were sexually mature , but had not taken on independent economic responsibilities . |
| 10 | They knew he spent his weekends at the flying club , but had n't got around to totting up how many hours of blind flying instruction in a twin-engined Cessna he was buying , nor how much each such hour cost . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He used to be the crier , but had recently taken over from Fred Harrison who had proclaimed the fair annually for the last thirty years . |
| 13 | After the war captor and captive became friends , and Otto showed us the Zeiss binoculars which Macintyre had taken off him as a trophy of war , but had recently handed back . |
| 14 | One fighter had been a Skinhead and had worn the appropriate ‘ gear ’ of his time but had now grown out of this kind of thing . |
| 15 | Blood lead concentrations had been highest at age two , but had now fallen by over 40% . |
| 16 | Kelly died on December 7 but had earlier filled in an appointment for December 8 . |
| 17 | The children emerged from the elaborate wrought-iron school gates , which were red with rust-preventer but had never got around to being painted . |
| 18 | Mrs McTavish used to wonder why she had produced two children who ran to such opposite extremes , but had never come up with an answer . |
| 19 | This also has the advantage of allowing you to add material which you have remembered but have not written down . |
| 20 | Forensic scientists have scoured the scene but have not come up with any conclusive evidence . |
| 21 | The club have twice narrowly avoided relegation in the last three years , and survived last season only because of a bright start , but have yet to pick up a point in the present campaign after playing five league games . |
| 22 | New Stewards came in early 1983 but have since moved on and Tony and Cheryl Wright started in December 1985 . |
| 23 | The region 's richest powers — including Mexico , Venezuela and Colombia — made big promises , but have n't paid up . |
| 24 | And there has been a remarkable interchange of ideas between computational theorists and neuroscientists , in which attempts to create computer models of neural function have not only generated powerful new tools for the interpreting of the brain but have also fed back into computer theory and practice . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've put it on the back burner , but have never given up the long-term goal of going round the world by sailboat . |
| 26 | Paul and Malcolm Bream first spent time exploring possible sources of voluntary funding , and then saw what might be done with the local authority , but have now turned back to their original search for their own place . |