Example sentences of "but he have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ford was a decent man , and a kind one , but he had a worrying nervousness that aggravated d'Alembord 's patience . |
| 2 | Mesmerized by the Public Prosecutor 's performance , no one had yet noticed him , but he had a nasty feeling that this was about to change . |
| 3 | His hair was thinning on top but he had a small ponytail at the back . |
| 4 | But he had a keen interest in a deal . |
| 5 | He does not cite Roman law sources very often , but he had a practical turn of mind and was active in curial business and administration . |
| 6 | He was forty-one years old , but he had a young face , like a boy . |
| 7 | He had n't known where to go , but he had a good instinct for direct , and he 'd reckoned as how a gateway had to be in the shell , far away from the heat sink as could be . |
| 8 | His features were regular but he had a distinct cast in one eye , so that he could n't stare straight at her without looking somewhere else . |
| 9 | But he had a dark side , too , as I 'm sure everybody knows , and Seve Ballesteros could n't lace Weiskopf 's boots when it came to bad temper on the course . ’ |
| 10 | At that time Poole , like John , had to rely on stage presence more than technique , but he had a powerful personality and a quick intelligent appreciation of character which enabled him to give memorable performances in many of John 's early ballets . |
| 11 | But he had a fixed idea in his mind that to be a bishop was not his work . |
| 12 | He has not , as a source , the shrewdness of his friend Charles Greville [ q.v. ] , nor the sharp asperity of his contemporary J. W. Croker [ q.v. ] ; but he had a greater sense of humour than either . |
| 13 | But he had a deep affection for his wife , and she for him . |
| 14 | In no way had he been consciously sadistic over the earlier years , but he had a deep fear of women who took over , as his mother had done . |
| 15 | But he had a wide following in the United States , and several American orthopaedic surgeons visited him . |
| 16 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 17 | He was a great melodist , but he had a real struggle being caught up in the machinery of making hits . |
| 18 | Aung San may not have known which knife and fork to use when he dined at Government House but he had a sure grasp of the realities of power . |
| 19 | But he had a well-appointed town-house , took government pensions and subsidies to agriculture . |
| 20 | After his first book , A London Farrago , appeared in 1921 , he published almost annually a volume of satire or humour , but he had a parallel career as a biographer , writing vigorous and scholarly lives of writers like Villon ( 1928 ) , Ronsard ( 1944 ) , Rabelais ( 1957 ) , Molière ( 1959 ) , and Cervantes ( 1962 ) ; studies of Louis XI ( King Spider , 1930 ) , and Charles V ( Emperor of the West , 1932 ) . |
| 21 | He had become accustomed to great wealth , but he had a social conscience and may even have considered himself a socialist . |
| 22 | Griffith was never as mature an artist as Dickens and he was the product of the frontier rather than a literary city but he had a social theory of sorts , a gift to embody values in stories , and a mastery of technique which allowed him to make every setting dramatically and socially convincing . |
| 23 | Until Dane Jacobsen had barged into her life she 'd done pretty well , too , she thought darkly — but he had a peculiar knack of stripping away those carefully constructed defences , to reveal the real emotions underneath . |
| 24 | He was n't as tall as the marquis , but he had a wiry physique and a sound constitution . |
| 25 | But he had a vivid picture of her in his mind , lean and hungry in her scarlet bathing suit . |
| 26 | he did n't really like it , but he had a lovely week , but at least we did n't come back to a house that 's full of |
| 27 | But he had a lovely house ! |
| 28 | You will forgive him using but he had a bad fall yesterday and has damaged his ankle . |
| 29 | To the men under him he was a most considerate and loyal officer , but he had a darker side to his character . |
| 30 | Jarvis was an eccentric and in the opinion of many who knew him a very strange man , but he had a quiet way of getting on with things . |