Example sentences of "but [pron] had give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to follow a bit but I had to give it up . |
| 2 | ‘ I certainly have n't invited him , but I had to give Slender Billy a score of tickets , so who knows who he might bring ? ’ |
| 3 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 4 | You were never entirely safe from prying fingers in Chinatown , but I had to give it my best shot . |
| 5 | But she had to give some thought to him , too . |
| 6 | But she had given up telling Gloria about what went on each day . |
| 7 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered . |
| 8 | But she had given him neither an address nor a telephone number ; and the complexities of finding either had posed rather too much of a problem on a transatlantic line . |
| 9 | If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly . |
| 10 | But she had given it little thought during this time with Fernando . |
| 11 | Poor passing gave Cardiff several reprieves , but something had to give and in the 15th minute , Julian Williams sent Lewis over from a five-yard scrum , Stephens adding the conversion . |
| 12 | Poor passing gave Cardiff several reprieves , but something had to give and in the 15th minute , Julian Williams sent Lewis over from a five-yard scrum , Stephens adding the conversion . |
| 13 | Then er on a Saturdays our slaughterhouse was , our slaughterhouse was still open up the street then and we used to perhaps kill twelve , fourteen pigs for private people , but they had to give their ration up , six months ' or twelve months ' ration up to have these pigs . |
| 14 | But they had given him photographs . |
| 15 | But he had given it all up and returned to the business world as a marketing executive . |
| 16 | But he had given patient thought to the matter , just as he had to the rest of the alien anatomy ; and he had ventured on what I can only call an abstraction of the human face . |
| 17 | The original idea was that Hubert would join after university , but he had to give that up . |
| 18 | Not that our sort is given to bragging in any case , but it had given my dad — a branch manager for one of the High Street banks — a certain quiet satisfaction to be able to let his staff know that his son was ‘ going up ’ to Oxford . |
| 19 | But it had given Hope an opening . |
| 20 | André was far too exuberant to be shattered by something like that , but it had given her ego a kick . |