Example sentences of "but he have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He knew from prior disasters that the rock presaged bad rapids , but he had no other clue as to what lay ahead .
2 Vitor might find her easy to talk to , but he had no other interest in her .
3 Fleming continued to experiment as a bacteriologist with his material , but he had no advanced training in chemistry , and his environment did not throw chemically expert colleagues in his way .
4 For the next eighteen months , Austen Chamberlain worked behind the scenes to maintain the interests of his party , just as Law had done , but he had no personal sympathy for the diehards or their views , and he made no gestures of conciliation to them .
5 But he had no precise idea where Adam was and he did not think Adam 's travel agent ( a personal friend of the young Verne-Smiths ) would tell him .
6 He came into control of the District Underground Railway in 1900 but he had no particular interest in trains or the tracks they run on .
7 Ford was a decent man , and a kind one , but he had a worrying nervousness that aggravated d'Alembord 's patience .
8 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 .
9 His hair was thinning on top but he had a small ponytail at the back .
10 But he had a keen interest in a deal .
11 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 .
12 He was forty-one years old , but he had a young face , like a boy .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 . ’
16 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 .
17 But he had a fixed idea in his mind that to be a bishop was not his work .
18 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 .
19 But he had a deep affection for his wife , and she for him .
20 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 .
21 But he had a wide following in the United States , and several American orthopaedic surgeons visited him .
22 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 .
23 He was a great melodist , but he had a real struggle being caught up in the machinery of making hits .
24 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 .
25 But he had a well-appointed town-house , took government pensions and subsidies to agriculture .
26 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 ) .
27 He had become accustomed to great wealth , but he had a social conscience and may even have considered himself a socialist .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 He was n't as tall as the marquis , but he had a wiry physique and a sound constitution .
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