Example sentences of "but [pron] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various schemes had been tried on Easter Monday to raise money — chrysanthemum shows and egg and spoon races included — but nothing had really developed . |
| 2 | There 's been concern over this area for several years but nothing 's actually been done . |
| 3 | I know it 's on the grapevine that there have been problems with the cars , but nothing 's ever been said officially . |
| 4 | The BBC series ‘ Revolutions in Sound ’ , broadcast in 1988 , gave great publicity to the possibility of these records existing , but nothing has so far turned up . |
| 5 | When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment . |
| 6 | The money would pay for everything anybody needed , but no-one had more than five or ten dollars in their pockets . |
| 7 | ‘ But no-one has ever tried , ’ argued Mould . |
| 8 | But everyone 's always been frightened of Fincara . |
| 9 | ‘ I know that does n't and ca n't excuse the way I came here and attempted to pass myself off as Cara , but I 've otherwise tried to keep to the truth , as far as possible . ’ |
| 10 | But I 've not yet met a bank who 's good at it . |
| 11 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 12 | Stronger but I 've not with anything anything like that . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 've not yet eaten , ’ he said . |
| 14 | But I 've not heard anything of him since I last left food and some clothes for him , and that was three days ago . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , they 've taken a blood sample , so I understand , on account of her not being able to give a breath specimen , but I 've not heard one way or the other . |
| 16 | There are ways of converting the voice stuff into a more standardised format , so that it can be heard by different systems , but I 've not learnt how to do that yet . |
| 17 | Mark S. sent them summat , but I 've not seen us there yet . |
| 18 | She has but I 've not had time to er assess her yet . |
| 19 | In actual fact I 've got a friend and I go potholing with him , we meet , he 's a Kendall farmer , he 's a a sheep farmer and er , we meet and he says you know what I 've got a problem with on my land , not foxes dogs and walkers that have n't got them on the leads and crows at lambing time cos they peck their eyes out and things of that calibre , he says yes , I 'll tell you what I 'll bet you I 've had animals taken by foxes he , he says I probably have , he said but I 've not had this kind of unindeighted killing as . |
| 20 | There must be a teapot , but I 've not discovered it as yet . |
| 21 | Well I know , but I 've not seen it . |
| 22 | I 've got the statements but I 've not got the original paper . |
| 23 | Kevin 's been done but I 've not given him anything back in writing yet , which I 've go to do . |
| 24 | But I 've not done it yet . |
| 25 | but I 've not our costs |
| 26 | I think when he was so near to death I thought bloody hell I bet it 's that nightmare but I 've not mentioned , do n't mention it |
| 27 | ‘ You know , it 's strange , Wayne , but I 've completely forgotten what she looks like . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I think I 'm demanding and chauvinistic , but I 've finally got someone with a good enough sense of humour to be able to cope with that very well , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish I could , Myra , but I 've finally stopped believing in fairy-tales . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ As you know , I 'm an adequate , plain cook , but I 've neither the time nor the talent to produce a coq au vin like this one : it was produced by my neighbour , Mrs Neville , who is seventy-five years old and runs a thriving emergency cooking , house-sitting and general crisis-management service for the neighbourhood . ’ |