Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us . |
| 2 | but I had to lie any way cos otherwise she would be more annoyed , I was going , I , say I go , I |
| 3 | ‘ But I had to have some excuse , you see . |
| 4 | Once , as he sat cross-legged on his mattress reading , deep in thought , I grabbed both his ankles , and yanked his legs , saying , ‘ Excuse me , but I have to take this wheelbarrow out to the garden . ’ |
| 5 | Then that would sort of feed itself , but you had to have one man feeding the the scrapping machine and another man with a shovel , pulling away the the the the the the scrapped at the side and then you had to have another man feeding the long hay into the chaff cutter . |
| 6 | But you have to have some level of arousal has to be something pumping round you round your blood your brain has to be working in some way to be able to perform . |
| 7 | But she had to give some thought to him , too . |
| 8 | As for emulating CNN , he is more cautious : ‘ Our terrestrial activity has to remain our core activity , but we have to explore new business opportunities . ’ |
| 9 | And and I 'm all in favour as I say getting more through the letter box , it 's easier for us and it But I I think I mean I 'm quite happy to leave this now and just carry on with the bridal But we have to make this pay itself |
| 10 | ‘ But we have to show more punch , determination and heart where it counts . |
| 11 | This is a perfectly reasonable procedure , but we have to admit that eqn ( 2.116 ) is rarely used . |
| 12 | We do n't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead . |
| 13 | Intellect is a barrier in our way , no doubt , but we have to pierce this barrier with the help of intellect . |
| 14 | Dynamic programming is used to compute a shortest path between every pair of vertices in a weighted directed graph G. This algorithm does not require all edge weights to be positive , but we have to ban negative length cycles . |
| 15 | Net margins on sales may be better than those of their foreign counterparts ( see table ) , but they have to employ more capital to build the new prettily-lit , out-of-town shops that the British want . |
| 16 | Her time would come , but he had to choose that time . |
| 17 | He wanted to leave now too , but he had to make some kind of contact with the dead man first . |