Example sentences of "[adv] but [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a bit better but I 've had to get out this morning to let June stay in ! |
| 2 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 3 | He 's been on the sauce basically but he 's kicked the habit and he says of kicking the drinking habit I 've had a lot of help and a lot of good counselling , in the end it 's up to me . |
| 4 | Not me personally but I have known a few people who 've wanted perhaps , a very quiet wedding , just in a registry office , and finished up with a large church wedding . |
| 5 | It is detailed alright but as I said what they 've written is detailed enough but they 've missed out erm various things that we needed to know |
| 6 | I do n't think so but we 've specified in here a lady shall . |
| 7 | Well I thought so but we 've got a We think the builders we 've got are excellent . |
| 8 | And er so but we have divided it by the weaknesses and things like that . |
| 9 | and I 've we 've taken the the old settee down to Carrie 's and moved the two seater and the armchair down this end and they flew in tonight straight up on the sofa , I said to it 's gon na be tough for a week or so but they 've got ta get used to staying on the floor , I 'm not having them on the furniture all the time cos they just absolutely ruin it ! |
| 10 | Erm no I do n't think so but he 's had his tea . |
| 11 | Her new liver took straight away but she had to go on a ventilator because she was having problems with her lungs . ’ |
| 12 | I mean it it sounds stupid , but a person I knew , she was about as stupid as i was as naive as I was , because er she was pregnant , her husband was n't away but she 'd got how many , five , four children , she 'd lost three children and she 'd got , then she had four , and then she found herself pregnant again . |
| 13 | Wishart had been away but he had heard the stories later , how Alexander had suddenly looked down the hall , dropping his cup and going pale with fright . |
| 14 | Soon but they 've got ta they 've got ta like have a first . |
| 15 | Life at home is a bit of a battlefield and work is sadly staging a go slow but you have survived worse difficulties before and this tough period is nearly over Ugly what are you ? |
| 16 | Just but I 've got a sore back as well . |
| 17 | I have n't done it easily but I 've done it and I 'm pleased . |
| 18 | Our Neil 's got bigger feet than her and then he 's a one , he 's in a one already but he 's got ta have a two in bumper boots . |
| 19 | Well , sometime Wednesday you go , you really go through it cos you you 're not you 're not halfway through but you 're still but you 've done quite a bit . |
| 20 | It 's a bit stiff still but I 've had the stitches out and still no pain . ’ |
| 21 | Basically , I did s , well if you want a technically but I 've said it comes out of the er , identified savings of the Chief Executive 's department as already ma er made . |
| 22 | Stoats generally construct their own small-diameter breeding chambers underground but I have known a stoat to be evicted from burrows by ferrets . |
| 23 | Yeah I went and got it yesterday but they 'd had a break in and you should 've seen it they 'd smashed the front door , it were all smashed in . |
| 24 | By now I think mum and dad had gone home but they 'd rang Ian and he 'd come straight to the hospital and sat with me . |
| 25 | He 'd wanted to escort her home but she had threatened to commit arson if he came within a quarter of a mile of the theatre . |
| 26 | I have n't had time to get it up on the machine to change again quickly but I 've had a quick look at the situation with regard to the five per cent increase . |
| 27 | It was not merely that he had the work done quickly but he had done it thinkingly . |
| 28 | Dr John Little , president of the Cambridge club , said : ‘ I ca n't say unequivocally but I have gone through a history of the club and there is no mention of it there . ’ |
| 29 | There was a period when cyclists disappeared from the Meet altogether but they have started to return in the last few years and among the highlights of this year 's event — May 22–25 — will be a return to races on the old grass cycle track around the perimeter of Richmond Cricket Club 's ground and a road race for penny-farthings . |
| 30 | ‘ It could be found locally but we have to cover as many angles as we can . ’ |