Example sentences of "but [pron] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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31 But I 've ordered a navy blue skirt and I 'm praying it comes and if it comes it fits .
32 ‘ No , but I 've worked a lot with the police .
33 ‘ Nothing about the local connection yet but I 've had a word with the boys at Penzance .
34 Very minor on the scale of things but I 've had a car stolen , erm great inconvenience , ca n't believe its going to happen to you , did n't do any thing to have caused this , locked up and took all the precautions , and yet it still happened and some one , some where out there has my car .
35 Er , I ca n't say definitely yet , because the meeting comes up after this meeting , but I 've had a lot of positive noises .
36 He The gaffer felt I was upset because I was not in the side , but I 've had a virus .
37 But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book .
38 I had noticed the name on the map ; it seemed very remote but I had seen a reference to an inn there .
39 That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately .
40 Got a got a pair of twos there ee by heck ! for four and a pair is six well I think I 'll have I 'm afraid two eights , two o , two eights , two tens and then nine did n't ask for that but I had to throw a pair of twos away for that and go in there you go .
41 So then I began to be really pretty busy with running the office and then keeping my home , but I 'd got a husband who was very , very , handy and helped me out in the home you know .
42 But I 'd had a bellyful of your family and I just wanted to stay out of the whole rotten business .
43 But I have done a maths erm another science exam sorry
44 I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious .
45 I 'm sure I could find him now , but I have made a vow that I am not going to tell anyone where he is , for the man is innocent and has no hope of proving that at the moment .
46 But I have missed a lot of races and I need to run . ’
47 But I have seen a coke stove , cast iron coke stove on a chimney going up to the ceiling in the dark absolutely glowing bright , bright , red .
48 I 'm sorry , Henry , but I have written a paper , which I 'm planning to send to Tom Haines , which more or less says precisely this .
49 McWilliams was still having problems with the suspension on his Yamaha during the final practice session and said afterwards : ‘ I needed a higher starting position to have a chance tomorrow but I have learned a lot and I 'm going to prepare for my first World championship by having a good nights sleep . ’
50 ‘ So I have n't got any leads on Elaine yet — she is Lilian , as I thought , but I have found a twin sister — Donna .
51 It is a struggle to paint grasses in a true watercolour technique and the purist may well react against the use of white and acrylic here , but I have found a release from the restrictions of technique through this method and comfort myself with the knowledge that white has been in common use by artists throughout the history of watercolour painting .
52 Stoats generally construct their own small-diameter breeding chambers underground but I have known a stoat to be evicted from burrows by ferrets .
53 But I have had a child , and although he 's gone , that love , that joy will stay with me forever .
54 I am not claiming it is my doing , but I have had a hand in the fact that four years ago and two years ago and again this year we have had exhibitions by living sculptors .
55 But I have had a letter erm explaining where the billboards are in our area and how much they cost .
56 It was hard to hear what was being said , but someone had put a nail through a pipe .
57 But you 've worked a lot with Paul Seddon , and you get on with him very well .
58 ‘ No , I ai n't saying that , but you 've got a wife and that 's the end of it .
59 But you 've got a friend there now . ’
60 ‘ No , but you 've got a gent 's moustache , I can see that , ’ she said .
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