Example sentences of "but [pers pn] had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Esther was no beauty , but she had a certain handsomeness about her , a particular wickedness he had not seen in other women . |
| 32 | She could not be to Pen as Minnie was to Miss Arabel since there was a mother in between but she had a great desire to see her former charge treat her as freely when he reached manhood . |
| 33 | Not nice but she had a strong character . |
| 34 | But she had a sudden change of heart and the pair were yesterday perched together for the first time . |
| 35 | Her wet boots made footprints on the dusty floor and she still wore an apron over her black skirt , but she had a fine air about her . |
| 36 | From where she stood , Melissa could see them only in profile , but she had a shrewd idea that they were holding hands and that Dora 's apparent indifference to their presence was concealing a mounting irritation . |
| 37 | She was n't tall and she was slightly heavy , but she had a pleasing face with soft eyes ; perhaps she 'd never be a beauty , but age would never make her ugly either . |
| 38 | She would never be a great beauty , he knew , but she had a natural charm and personality that lent an extra depth to her character , and he imagined that this would have been how his mother would have looked at a similar age . |
| 39 | There was a little flabbiness in her lower belly , because she was a woman and not a girl , but she had a tight waist . |
| 40 | She , too , was Irish , but she had a soft voice and a kind face : her job was to teach sewing and singing . |
| 41 | Her figure , her posture , her attitude to him as a man , all suggested sexual awareness but she had a waspish tongue . |
| 42 | She was forgetting everything else — the sub-language she spoke , things she knew , chunks of her past , people she had killed — but she had a clear memory of the way the world really looked . |
| 43 | My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . |
| 44 | ‘ But we had a great time ! |
| 45 | tried to call you both saturday nite and a couple of times on sunday — but no answer … the spurs game was just OK — but we had a great time at the newcastle game vs. scousers — great atmosphere — we stood among the newcastle supporters ( north bank ? ) and they made hell each time cole put it behind grobbelar … |
| 46 | But we had a great deal of literature in common , and a love of landscape ; we thought ( Dickens excepted ) the same things funny ; and we had some similar slants of vision . |
| 47 | We did n't see him , but we had a superb seafood meal in a trattoria on a hill and found ourselves adopted by a shaggy island dog , another hazard of Mediterranean voyaging . |
| 48 | ‘ He did , but we had a slight disagreement on the way . |
| 49 | ‘ I 'm not sure if it was ‘ The Reign of Terror ’ story about the French Revolution , or one of the other ones , but we had a terrible time getting Bill to pronounce the word brazier , meaning a rack for burning coals . |
| 50 | But we had a good time and will definitely go again . |
| 51 | That was n't music , but we had a good time … and then , I do n't know , we do talk about other things , particularly I suppose the kind of fixes we 're both in . " |
| 52 | But we had a good time . |
| 53 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 54 | I was eyeballing distances at that time , and had no real idea how far Roberto had to clear the out-of-bounds and a wee bank that ran round the hole , but we had a strong breeze behind us going from right to left . |
| 55 | But we had a loyal staff who helped clear up and we got back into business in 3 days . |
| 56 | And the supporters been treating me well , the promotion been treating me well , so obviously I never really wanted to move but we had a few problems with the negotiating with the contract and the financial terms was n't quite right so but I 'm glad to say we 've got it right now and you know we both sort of gave a bit and we came to a settlement er which I 'm very pleased about . |
| 57 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 58 | We we we lived but we had a comfortable home , and I er I thought it was a lovely home actually . |
| 59 | ‘ My mum is a bit upset , ’ says Zara , ‘ but we had a lovely letter from Mr Evans saying that he would pay for me to return home at any time during the first three months in England , which we were very grateful for . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ I 'm so sorry to have kept you , but we had a little emergency ! ’ |