Example sentences of "but [subord] [pers pn] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were still a great many people about in the outer ward , but once they had passed through the archway to the inner ward the night world about them was quiet , troubled by only a few echoing footsteps . |
| 2 | but once they 've gone through that pain barrier |
| 3 | There are other people who only work by consensus , but once they 've agreed to something they 'll do it very effectively . |
| 4 | Turkey on its own is easy to accommodate but once you have piled on the stuffing , sausages , bacon and cranberry sauce , your poor old wine is struggling to hold its own . |
| 5 | Obviously when you budget you have to allow the most money for the rooms you arc actually going to live in , but once you have decided on what cash is available you must turn considerable thought and care — if not money — to making your hall as warm and welcoming and practical as you can . |
| 6 | The cliffs are not very high , but once you have abseiled over the edge you enter a world of powerful adventure , whatever your grade of climbing ( and there are fine routes in every grade ) . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | But although they had vanished by the late 1950s , together with beggars from most European stations , the importunate begging hand thrust through the window of the railway carriage remains common throughout much of the Third World . |
| 9 | Some of our friends have no speech , but if we have thought about the symbol , we will be able to speak on behalf of our friends . |
| 10 | There is a closing sequence now the reason that you were able to close in the manner that you did with that bloke is a natural ability , but if I 've said to you to teach somebody else it you would say I can not do it , but I ca n't teach somebody else , because you 're not actually aware of the sequence that you 're working , can you see what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 11 | But if she 'd wanted to she could easily have told him something that would have stopped him dead in his tracks . |
| 12 | ‘ But if he 'd known of this outrage , ’ said Philip , looking from one to the other of them with searching eyes , ‘ the boy would have told me in Isambard 's presence . |
| 13 | But if you 'd listened to me , you 'd be married to Charles now and doing your duty as a good wife should ! ’ |
| 14 | But if you 've persevered with certain plans or associations and kept your cool under pressure , your patience is about to be rewarded . |
| 15 | It is cramping for the author , but if you have contracted with your readers to tell them , through a story , what police work is really like then you must accept this limitation . |
| 16 | But if you have practised on a tape recorder and you discover that you are talking in a monotonous , even tone , try reading the speech putting emphasis on certain words . |
| 17 | What you write may well be funny , but if it had grown to the extent where it overweighs the actual book you are writing , a piece of comic crime fiction , then you will be spoiling the whole . |
| 18 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 19 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 20 | They have one reference point and just that , but if it 's related to an account then |
| 21 | bit more thickness than I hoped , er but if it 's sat on top of there and on top of what 's on . |
| 22 | Not because they had reached land , the line of tall thin houses beyond the quay , but because they had docked in French . |
| 23 | But because it 's got to be right across the board , and they wo n't make exception , of people like myself and others who are living in the community that need home help . |
| 24 | Oh , the benison of it , she thought , for she seemed to need comfort now , not only because she was tired after the journey and far away from John , but because she had admitted to herself that she loved him , had let her love sweep over her like a kind of illness , ‘ giving in ’ to flu , conscious only of the present moment . |
| 25 | But since we 've won in Barcelona , we 've had to go around a lot to dinners and appearing on television shows like A Question of Sport and Blue Peter . |
| 26 | But since we have switched to Radio 1 , they have perked up again and production has gone up by four per cent . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But since he has lied to me about marrying me , I will no longer keep his secrets . ’ |
| 28 | He might call her McAllister , but since she had fled from him she had become Sally-Anne again . |
| 29 | But since I 've had to , and since the old place is so empty , how about it ? |
| 30 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |