Example sentences of "[vb pp] but [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A row of epic proportions had ensued , which he and Angela had evidently enjoyed but which had left Sarah and Jennifer sick with distress . |
| 2 | It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor . |
| 3 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 4 | He said it 's you know it 's it 's it 's not easily done but he 's seen them quite a lot . |
| 5 | These are now having theirs done but he 's done quite a number of them in this area . |
| 6 | Something she had missed but he had seen . |
| 7 | If you 've got an idea or a message to send it has to be encoded in some way then there 's various mediums or media by which it can be transmitted but it 's got to be decoded by the receiver for the idea or message to be understood , and there 's some kind of feedback mechanism potentially from the receiver to the sender . |
| 8 | Because they are semi-skilled they are low rated but they have got to learn to fit in with our ways you know . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of bad things have been said but I 've fulfilled a lifelong dream this season for which I 've worked very hard . ’ |
| 10 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 11 | they 've got but they 've got |
| 12 | Lewis did not like being corrected but he had to take it , and with a smile . |
| 13 | Erm , we 've seen it also through the budget process , where all the way through , and it 's been a very open process , we have no alternative proposals from the Conservative group , they have complained and have criticized but they have offered no alternatives . |
| 14 | ‘ There were few people to whom problems could be referred but you had to make things work . |
| 15 | half G T half G T squared plus some constant times time normally your the the G will be a negative half A T squared but someone had said come up with that equation , and you 've said well what are you going to give me to go on well the acceleration 's constant . |
| 16 | still got Bill as previously arranged but we had to find somebody else for Jack . |
| 17 | one of them thingies , one of them jacks , and then you 've got one of them , I do n't even , I do n't know what they 're called but I 've seen it before |
| 18 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 19 | He had left suddenly while Rachel had been on leave and on her return she 'd been told that another officer had been appointed but she 'd had no time to find out anything about him . |
| 20 | Her face was peaked but she had slept well . |
| 21 | Wilson , whose own competence left something to be desired but who had learned from experience , had already centralised the finances which he had accused branches of the old union of frittering away . |
| 22 | she was taken out of work one morning and now they 've bought her another car and I do n't where it 's happened but somebody 's gone into the back of her |
| 23 | Eight years on the problems have not decreased but they have increased er , even more so with the present problem of employers who tend to ignore health and safety using fear of unemployment to stop complaints . |
| 24 | I mean my boy had a er a terrible accident ten years ago and smashed all his face all his teeth were when we first saw his face he 'd got no teeth left but it 's got them all back . |
| 25 | Ah ah it was but it was sanctioned but we had to sign a contract with them . |
| 26 | The Act of 1902 reinforced divisions in education which had long existed but which had become more acute with the rapid expansion of both the private and public educational sectors since the 1870s . |
| 27 | Their Phyllanthus epiphyllanthus from the West Indies had been lost but he had seen one in the physic garden at Amsterdam where , with proper management , it was in great vigour . |
| 28 | General admin : Preferred Working Hours are being updated for the Division : yours I 've not changed but I have put Astrid 's at 9.30 to 5.30 with 1 hour lunch . |
| 29 | Or maybe the mission had failed but she had survived . |