Example sentences of "but he have [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had not served in the Royal Marines for nothing . |
| 2 | He had known his mother would be on stage and her dresser Jessie in the wings waiting to help her with her quick change , and Bunty alone ; but he had not bargained for her not being dressed . |
| 3 | But he had not gone into details , giving only the bare outline , the facts , and Lili had asked few questions . |
| 4 | But he had not asked after her ; unsuspected questioning of her mother had told her that . |
| 5 | He was a great lad now , though still slight and not above average height for eleven years , but he had not changed towards her in the least and his adoration of Pilade was touching . |
| 6 | He was a man who prided himself on having everything at his fingertips , but he had not counted on Berdichev 's directness . |
| 7 | A number of Laura 's relations lived there , but he had not come to the Relais to discuss them . |
| 8 | In 1921 , Siqueiros had urged artists to ‘ avoid those lamentable archaeological reconstructions ’ ( ‘ Indianism ’ , ‘ Primitivism ’ , ‘ Americanism' ) but he had also warned against the use of ‘ archaic motifs ’ from the old masters of European art ‘ which for us would be exotic ’ ; instead his advice was to study the arts of both , learning from the ‘ constructive base ’ , the ‘ great sincerity ’ , of the latter , and the ‘ synthetic energy ’ of the former , to combine the ‘ lost values ’ of the past with new values to produce an art appropriate to modern America . |
| 9 | An evangelical of great piety and a man of gentle character and inflexible integrity , Johnson was charged with a mission beyond the powers of most because he was to be custodian of the morals of the infant settlement but he had also to conform to the pragmatism of Arthur Phillip [ q.v. ] , the first governor of New South Wales . |
| 10 | But he had also hinted at a sexual relationship with one of his American university professors , and with the editor of a certain American music magazine , with whom he had spent a vacation in Hairi . |
| 11 | But he had since matured into an above average soldier and technician , talented , willing and desperate not to leave the army . |
| 12 | But he had n't heard of There 's another thing which Amanda suggested I try . |
| 13 | No one was hurt , but he had n't ventured behind the wheel of a vehicle since that day , ’ Andrew says . |
| 14 | IT 'S business as usual , Bryan insisted as he finally emerged from his Chelsea home to face the press — but he had n't reckoned with PC — Police Clamper — Nigel Legge . |
| 15 | But he had n't won since the 1985 Georgia-Pacific Atlanta Classic . |
| 16 | But he had n't known of Rose 's departure . |
| 17 | Werewolf had opted for clear plastic goggles but he had already dispensed with them , tying them to his belt . |
| 18 | He gave evidence in support of the claims of the tenantry before the Bessborough commission ( 1880 ) but he had already come to prominence when he performed brilliantly as an expert witness on canon law in the celebrated O'Keefe law case in 1875 . |
| 19 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |
| 20 | But he had already performed in the horse box on the way to the fete — and there was no way he was going to do it again . |
| 21 | He could drive out to Wenlock Manor and dine but he had already lunched on his own . |
| 22 | Then John Gielgud opened in a Barrie play , but he had only got into the third act when the siren went . |
| 23 | Not only had Rahner been attacked by Ottaviani a little while before , but he had long suffered at the hands of the Holy Office and his public rehabilitation could be seen as a snub for Ottaviani . |
| 24 | He was not quite sixteen but he had long acted like a boy impatient of childhood . |
| 25 | But he 'd simply laughed at her protestations , the same way he always laughed when her mother protested at his seemingly endless generosity . |
| 26 | But he 'd never known for certain and still did n't know now . |
| 27 | ‘ I know Duff has spoken to Lennox 's American promoter Dan Duva , but he has not spoken to anybody directly involved with Lennox 's career in Britain . ’ |
| 28 | He also quoted from Audit Commission reports , but he has not quoted from the Audit Commission response to our consultation paper on the structure of local government . |
| 29 | But he has already said to employees and investors that the option he finds most attractive is keeping IBM intact as the biggest , and hopefully mightiest , firm in its industry . |
| 30 | When the band split up in 1985 Sting started out on a solo career which has seen hits like Spread A Little Happiness and If You Love Somebody , but he has yet to get near the success , in the singles chart at least , of one of the biggest-selling pop groups in history . |