Example sentences of "[pers pn] but have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how did you know that there was n't some big secret , some big , evil deal going down that involves you but had been kept secret from you ? |
| 2 | ‘ I would fain write a long letter to each one of you but have no strength … |
| 3 | I consider joining the retreating pair below me but have no harness for the abseil , so I settle down to wait while the climber above seconds the pitch . |
| 4 | They have tricked me but have themselves been tricked . ’ |
| 5 | Widows ' and orphans ' pensions were not greeted with enthusiasm outside women 's organizations , who supported them but had little influence . |
| 6 | They did n't stare at them but had good eye contact . |
| 7 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 8 | I doubt if we shall ever know enough to do it , but these dear dead creatures are lurking there forever in their private corners of that huge genetic hypervolume , waiting to be found if we but had the knowledge to navigate the right course through the maze . |
| 9 | ‘ He was set upon by a police officer who simply wanted to speak to him but had no right in law and the appellant had the right to resist him , ’ said Mr Macdonald . |
| 10 | Well it 's , I mean I feel sorry for him but having said |
| 11 | He had come into the shop with her but had not followed her upstairs to the kitchen . |
| 12 | She knew that the fussy , frilly bridal gown did not suit her but had accepted it , as she had accepted so much else in her life , for her mother 's sake . |
| 13 | It is not always understood that he does not only help her but has frequently to lead her into a movement . |
| 14 | Cooking the evening meal , her husband 's left her but has been pestering her or something . |
| 15 | He tried to tug it but had no leverage . |
| 16 | BETTER EXERCISE Nothing for it but to have a jolly good workout lifting one 's leg . |
| 17 | So that 's that 's the way to use that is not to talk to it but to have a silence while you 're writing er and then to stand at the side while you making the points that are that are associated with what you 've written up . |
| 18 | It did sting me a bit the first time I used it but has n't since . |
| 19 | ‘ New technology and computers — but at basic level for top management who know nothing about it but have to see an authority through a changeover ’ . |
| 20 | You maybe you 've done it but have forgotten . |
| 21 | Overall , the process of becoming a budget-minded organisation has been a learning curve for some of us but has to be the right way to go . ’ |
| 22 | And of course we have seen that Wittgenstein wanted to show it impossible that there should be beings who behave like us but have no sensations or different sorts of experiences from ours . |