Example sentences of "but [pron] have have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing about the local connection yet but I 've had a word with the boys at Penzance . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He The gaffer felt I was upset because I was not in the side , but I 've had a virus . |
| 5 | But I 've had the story checked out , Sally . |
| 6 | It 's a bit stiff still but I 've had the stitches out and still no pain . ’ |
| 7 | But I had to have an excuse to see you , so I 'm not complaining . |
| 8 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |
| 9 | But I 'd had no sleep and I was feeling it got worse . |
| 10 | But I 'd had a bellyful of your family and I just wanted to stay out of the whole rotten business . |
| 11 | But I 'd had the foresight to build up a formidable stockpile and there 's no imminent danger of running out of my favourite footwear . |
| 12 | But I 'd had the taste . |
| 13 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 14 | ‘ But I have had a child , and although he 's gone , that love , that joy will stay with me forever . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But I have had a letter erm explaining where the billboards are in our area and how much they cost . |
| 17 | I am told that with good binoculars ( presumably × 12 or more ) it can be made out as an aura of soft light surrounding the cluster , but I have had no success myself . |
| 18 | I love her and have never , ever , wished she had n't happened , but I have had no youth , no fun , no life worth living . |
| 19 | But you 've had no dealings for the past six or seven years ? |
| 20 | But you have to have a fight to get in ! |
| 21 | She had told him something good would come out of that missing jewellery , but she had had no idea of just how wonderful it was going to be . |
| 22 | She 'd lived in Leningrad for ten years but she 'd had no work for the last two of them . |
| 23 | He had left suddenly while Rachel had been on leave and on her return she 'd been told that another officer had been appointed but she 'd had no time to find out anything about him . |
| 24 | We invited Debbie to join us but she 'd had an invitation from a girlfriend to spend Christmas in Norway and she decided to take that invitation up . |
| 25 | The boys were big time , but we had to have the sound system , the lighting , the stage — everything had to move at the pace of David 's imagination . |
| 26 | I said Just a minute but We 've had a Mrs . |
| 27 | Er that was automatic ninety th er November ninety three but we 've had a problem with them so we 're negotiating . |
| 28 | ‘ … embarrassing to have to trouble you like this , but we 've had a bit of bother with the sheep hereabouts . |
| 29 | Sorry to wake you at this hour but we 've had a host of tasks during the night . |
| 30 | Well I 've had the sniffles at the moment but we 've had a lot of people at work with |