Example sentences of "but [pron] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He will have one race before then , but I have yet to decide where , ’ said the trainer , adding : ‘ He is a much stronger horse now and I am sure that one and a half miles is his best distance . ’ |
| 2 | Oh , yes — you said that you and Mummy entertain Daddy 's guests — but I have yet to learn how good you are at turning out perfectly cooked food . |
| 3 | What this latter achieves I am not quite sure , but I have yet to hear of a gardener who has experienced any problems with free lime after following this recommendation . |
| 4 | If giving or withholding this responsibility were possible options in a one-person game , then this criterion would do nothing to counter the charge of arbitrariness but I have already argued that they are not and could not be . |
| 5 | As I said a moment ago , I will wait until I have the facts , but I have already undertaken to review co-operation with Indonesia in the light of the response by the Indonesian Government . |
| 6 | But I have already warned you to be on your guard against anything that any anthropologist has ever written about kinship terminologies , so I will not pursue the matter here . |
| 7 | ‘ Thank you , Elizabeth , but I have already proposed to Sarah , and I 'm quite happy about it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I won a gold medal dancing and jabbing , but I have since neglected the two basic ingredients , ’ said Lewis , who is unbeaten in 19 fights . |
| 9 | The guitar was described as a 1967 Fender Strat but I have since discovered that it was made in 1974 and that I therefore paid about £250 over the asking price . |
| 10 | But I have since come across three other instances . |
| 11 | I did n't know that kind of thing existed , but I have since learnt that there is quite a demand for them . |
| 12 | But I have rarely known a patient need more than four sessions of hypnosis after the discovery of the original source of the problem . |
| 13 | Er , I do n't physically have to type out the labels , but I have physically have to be in the office , to initiate the computer sorts , because under something called personal job insurance scheme , I 've layered the sort of routine under a lot of security codes and I 'm only , the only person who knows where they are . |
| 14 | I am married , but I have somehow slipped into an affair with a man at our local squash club . |
| 15 | As I have read his writings , often in photocopies lent to me by friends , or in the book on his work published in 1982 , in India , I have not only come to appreciate his films in a more informed way , but I have also realized that his outlook on film-making is one which has begun to affect my own thinking . |
| 16 | Not only have I learned that soon I will not only be responsible for myself but a small vulnerable child who for many years to come will be under my protection , but I have also gained an inner strength that I never knew I was capable of having . |
| 17 | But I have also railed against them because instead of investors being able to handle their investments themselves , they have had to buy through a registered plan manager . |
| 18 | But I have also tried to spread the knowledge of the past criminal misuse of human genetics in Nazi Germany . |
| 19 | But I have also caught myself locking up energy in resentment or guilt or ‘ if onlys ’ . |
| 20 | But I have also come to realise that standing as still as you must while waiting for your chance to come on a frosty day is not exactly the height of pleasure . |
| 21 | But I have just explained , surely you do not need me to tell you . |
| 22 | ‘ But I have just got to forget it , go forth and carry on . |
| 23 | I am extremely sorry , but I have just had a most trying time . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But I have just won the Young Eagle award and feel I am close to my best . ’ |
| 25 | … a particular account of the soil , productions , mountains and lakes which I observed in my journey thither … but I have lately heard that Reeves is taken by the French . |
| 26 | Moments and impressions from this great desert of time remain with me but I have long forgotten in which part of it they occurred . |
| 27 | This is , I admit , a rather small genre at the moment ; but I have recently noticed increasing use of the abattoir in short stories . |
| 28 | This may sound ridiculous , but I have recently met a very nice man , the same age as me , similar tastes , sense of humour , not exactly good-looking but perfectly presentable , and I 'm wondering whether or not I should marry him . |
| 29 | They got on very well together , but I have recently lost one . |
| 30 | But I have twice dreamt of being led to the noose , the second time I got closer than the first , I hope I never have a third ! |