Example sentences of "but he have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The Brownies did n't know it , but he had asked Brown Owl to marry him .
2 But he had crossed the road — actually crossed the road — to tell her he thought it was the most interesting interview he had ever heard on the Parker Show .
3 As the heating was off it had been cold , but he had comforted himself with the thought that it was not as cold as it was outside where many of the animals were .
4 Newcomen died in 1729 , when his engines were coming into increasing use all over Europe as well as in Britain , and soon in America too , but he had gained little financial advantage from his invention .
5 I closed the gap , but he had gained at the start and that is what gave him the advantage at the finish .
6 Ali Marwash was not a rich man , but he had loved his daughter and had wrapped her in a Kashmir shawl before interring her .
7 But he had despised her husband from the beginning .
8 ‘ That job was the adventure , ’ she remembered , but he had deprived her of so much more than just adventure .
9 Schmidt , born in 1918 , had been a Hitler Youth member and a lieutenant in the wartime army , but he had joined the SPD soon after the war and entered the Bundestag as early as 1953 .
10 He may have constructed his Cabinet a little amiss , but he had constructed his power-base superbly .
11 It could have been the second , but he had swallowed his pride when they had shown him the room that was allocated him .
12 But he had grasped , being so quick , the bones of it .
13 But he had saved one further little irritation for the end .
14 But he had cut do you see , all on the inside , and left along the roadside .
15 However , his candidature in 1911 had been aided by three factors : he was a Conservative rather than a Liberal Unionist , but he was the sort of Conservative who would be acceptable to Liberal Unionists as well ; he was a diehard in opinion , but he had remained loyal to Balfour 's policy throughout the recent twists and turns ; and he had staked a claim by his abandonment of his safe London seat to fight North-West Manchester in December 1910 ( at no real risk , for an alternative safe seat was always available to him if and when he lost ) .
16 Of course , he had n't come up with answers , but he had indicated where , in what directions , further work might pay the necessary dividend .
17 But he had indicated , on his appointment as vice-president last spring , that he would not take the traditional route to the presidency as he would be retiring from OUP during 1993 .
18 But he had swung round at the sound of a vehicle approaching .
19 But he had stopped trusting his thoughts .
20 But he had stopped short of throwing them out , because then he would only be punishing himself .
21 I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all .
22 She looked at him and felt his pain , but he had shut her out again .
23 There had been an anonymous telephone call to tell him so , but he had guessed it anyway , mostly because her habit of reversing the responsibility for everything that happened had made her start to behave as though she had herself some gross cause for mistrust .
24 But he had made the gesture : these were people for whom you could safely slaughter a sheep .
25 He explained that there never had been a bottle of perfume , but he had made the first call in front of his wife who was now quite happy because she thought her husband had merely left her birthday present behind , not , as he had actually done , completely forgotten her birthday .
26 But he had made no phone call .
27 I had not thought my friends dull , but he had made them seem so .
28 Ewen Mackay had said he could sleep on his boat , but he had made no move to invite Parsons to share it with him .
29 But he had made it complete with fossils and dinosaur skeletons buried under the earth ; red herrings put there to expose those of little faith .
30 Decision : it would have been open to the sentencer to impose a term of detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , S.53(2) , but he had made no reference to the section and it was clear that the sentence was unlawful .
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