Example sentences of "but i have a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Do n't laugh , but I had a dream that Leeds beat Sunderland 7–0 in the return of the CCC a few days ago .
2 I was weak with hunger but I had a knife and I could still move round the city .
3 Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given
4 But I had a map and a compass with me yesterday .
5 So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help .
6 But I had a feeling that nobody was really enjoying the game any more .
7 I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again .
8 ‘ I bought about six stretchsuits for James , but I had a lot as presents .
9 ‘ Both my parents are dead , but I have a stepmother and a half-brother , Rob .
10 ‘ I have n't got one , but I have a hunch that Delia Forbes may be involved in some way .
11 But I have a theory that if you have two musicians , both trained and able to play anything that is put before them , but only one of them has the ability to play by ear as well , then he or she will be able to project more life , beauty and expression than the other .
12 ‘ I accept partial blame but I have a feeling that history will treat me kindly because there was nothing wrong with my basic thesis .
13 But I have a feeling that the likeable Hampshire opener will develop into one of the most dependable top-order batsmen in the country .
14 I have naturally been very careful not to discover anything about it , but I have a feeling that she has commissioned little tributes from friends and childhood recollections from my sisters .
15 I did n't expect them to eat the blue-green stuff — have you smelled it ? but I have a suspicion that it gets a toehold on spots where other algae are already in residence .
16 I had queried his dose of Dexamethazone with a nurse earlier , and she assured me he was getting it in his drip , but I have a suspicion that it had been reduced or even forgotten .
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