Example sentences of "but [pers pn] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book . |
| 2 | I had noticed the name on the map ; it seemed very remote but I had seen a reference to an inn there . |
| 3 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 6 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 7 | Helen and Tony had been delighted when Helen became pregnant , but she had suffered a miscarriage in June and although always hopeful , had not become pregnant again . |
| 8 | Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience . |
| 9 | But she had found a deal of happiness in her family . |
| 10 | There he found the greatest novelty of all : a twenty-eight-day dial that showed the phases of the moon — at least , it had been the moon when Nora bought the watch but she had got a miniaturist to overpaint it with an enamel portrait of herself . |
| 11 | Things happen , he thought , and lay on the bed listening , but she had taken a magazine in with her and he fell asleep waiting . |
| 12 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 13 | Ah ah it was but it was sanctioned but we had to sign a contract with them . |
| 14 | But they had built a pyre for Scathach , and in so honouring the man they had indicated their recognition of him . |
| 15 | A few corpses swayed in the breeze at the end of a rope but they had built a wall so when the bodies decayed and fell , their sight , if not their stink , was hidden from passersby . |
| 16 | In America , where they often performed , the trains struck them as poignant chiefly because uncared for , but they had found a friend with a long New England face who was a fireman on the run to Boston , and his professionalism and high interest in the topic of transport were entirely cheering . |
| 17 | But he had made a mess of it . |
| 18 | But he had visited a club . |
| 19 | But he had reached a pitch where he could n't give up . |
| 20 | The land used to belong to Lord Linkhaven , up at the Hall ; to the present lord 's great-grandfer , I should say , but he had to sell a bit here and there — and that 's how the two villages came . |
| 21 | The likeness was there , Master Harry 's divination had been marvellously guided ; but he had carved a man , and this , after all , was no more than a boy , not yet grown . |
| 22 | He went on talking of peace , but he had become a man who had allowed Britain 's major industry to be decimated and embittered . |
| 23 | But he had received a fax from the Bishop of the Diocese of Europe . |
| 24 | The ones appointed to do the job had never been very good at it , but he had heard a rumour that Horemheb was training a secret corps of police , answering to him alone but set up in the pharaoh 's name and in the interests of national security . |
| 25 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 26 | They had met once while on holiday , and not only was Dustin Hoffman a great fan of Sting , but he had written a song which they performed together . |
| 27 | Ballater had , on that visit , thought the place loathsome — it still was — but he had felt a degree of sympathy with her for wanting to stay . |
| 28 | Obviously Edwin had not murdered Francis but he had created a situation in which violence was more likely . |
| 29 | He had rescued her in his own way , he had swept away the bitterness and the hurt , but he had added a hurt of his own too . |
| 30 | But he had married a greengrocer — a much younger woman — and ‘ retired early ’ partly to help her : ‘ he worked a lot in the house . |