Example sentences of "but i have [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is Albert 's entry to the solo ; I seem to recall Emmy playing this in E♭ , but I 've written it in the key of D so that you wo n't have to ‘ capo-up ’ at the first fret . |
| 2 | But I 've written it in such an open-ended way |
| 3 | ‘ But I 've made it with United and now I want the chance to show what I can do at the highest level of all . ’ |
| 4 | I know I might go to jail , but I 've prepared myself for it . |
| 5 | The right is hereditary but I 've done nothing about it , slightly to my father 's chagrin . |
| 6 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 7 | ‘ You can scoff , ’ said the visitor of San Severo , ‘ but I 've seen them with my own eyes . ’ |
| 8 | But I 've seen them on the pictures . |
| 9 | That shop , I do n't know what the name of that shop is , but I 've seen them in the window lately |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know what he does but I 've seen him around this area . |
| 11 | We have n't really discussed it , to be honest ; but I 've seen her with kids once or twice and she seems to get on with them instinctively . |
| 12 | but I 've kept it from all the years . |
| 13 | ‘ No , but I 've told you about her , have n't I ? ’ |
| 14 | But I 've got nothing in my pocket . ’ |
| 15 | But I 've got one in the do-it-yourself shop here you see , and I thought I might as well put one in Val 's two shops . |
| 16 | But I 've got it in hand . ’ |
| 17 | But I 've put him in touch with engineer Eric Pendry who came into my office nine years ago with a story about his son , Paul , who was also shot dead on an SAS live-fire training exercise . |
| 18 | I retrieved them too , but I 've left them in my flat . ’ |
| 19 | It would be risky , so soon after Paul 's death , but I had to do something to even up the balance . |
| 20 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 21 | I was afraid to speak to these important people but I had to tell them about the danger . |
| 22 | Mum always opened the letters but I had to read them for her . |
| 23 | I think he 's telling the truth now but I had to threaten him with the Juvenile Bureau , the Welfare and God knows what before he did . |
| 24 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
| 25 | But I had augmented it in my mind ; for all that remains is two stones set up on end , with a long one laid upon them , as was usual , and one stone at a little distance from them . |
| 26 | ‘ But I had to book them in January . |
| 27 | But I 'd eluded them before and I could again , I told myself , almost jauntily , as I ambled into the bar that I decided to make my last stop for the night . |
| 28 | I hope this book will also be of value to the professional surveyor — in its breadth if not its depth — but I have written it in terms best suited to the non-professional , enthusiastic house-owner . |
| 29 | But I have heard nothing of this ! |
| 30 | Its magnitude is only 9 according to official estimates ; I have never seen it with low-power binoculars , but I have suspected it with × 20 , though I would not have noticed it if I had not known just where it was . |