Example sentences of "but [pron] have the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were all sorts of different views of the future , but everyone had the same ideas about what was worth preserving . |
| 2 | I wanted a crew of twenty men — as we may meet pirates or enemy ships — but I had the greatest difficulty finding six . |
| 3 | My own business was all right , but I had the usual trouble of small charter companies — not enough capital . |
| 4 | I had so far managed to avoid being kissed by the old bat , but I had the strong feeling that , by the end of the day , she and I were going to be getting physical . |
| 5 | You know , if the wa I 'll have that but but I had the last bit before that . |
| 6 | The 100MHz DX2 will need a 50MHz motherboard , so Atomstyle 's 50MHz unit might be just the thing to upgrade a little further down the road if you 're a real speed freak , but I have the sneaking suspicion that you wo n't either want or need to . |
| 7 | I 'm not English , Irish nor French , but I have the same opinion as both Mr. Schwabb and Dr. O'Donohue . |
| 8 | But the comments which most hit home were those of the young Lord Altrincham , in his English and National Review , a magazine of scarcely greater significance , but which had the good fortune to publish its August 1957 edition on a newsless Bank Holiday . |
| 9 | It turned out there was a military call-up in New Zealand , which he avoided by feigning epileptic fits ( a device he subsequently found described in The Confessions of Felix Krull , by Thomas Mann ) , but which had the beneficial effect in his case of getting him placed on national assistance , an invaluable windfall for a poet . |
| 10 | When challenged about this you replied , Yes , but you have the least experience in the golf industry . |
| 11 | Controversy may have raged round the royal head of Marina Ogilvy but she had the good sense to choose a dress she could wear after her baby was born |
| 12 | He was a bit too horny to start with , but she had the four children and it was n't a problem now . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course it would n't bother me ! ’ she replied at once , but she had the awful feeling that her denial lacked the ring of truth . |
| 14 | But she had the prettiest face and the sweetest smile you 've ever seen . |
| 15 | Molly Fletcher had been a pretty girl , but she had the faded air of a flower that has been transplanted into the wrong soil . |
| 16 | He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not so good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him . |
| 17 | The other companies had good theatres and some good actors , but we had the famous Richard Burbage — and the best plays . |
| 18 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 19 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 20 | but we had the same thing with , course it 's going back Joan 's generation er see younger generation altogether than mine but our , our lives were well we 'll say well my father was in the Secret Service , in the government , Scotland Yard but erm |
| 21 | As for the future of the transputer , that , of course , depends on commercial decisions , but we have the right environment for many types of technological developments . |
| 22 | ‘ We can do an awful lot better than that but we have the two points and that 's what matters . |
| 23 | But we have the original cards here as my learned friend will correct me if I 'm I 'm wrong . |
| 24 | The A nineteen north , very similar reasons , but we have the added reason that the local planning authority , Hambledon clearly will not accept such a new settlement . |
| 25 | But we have the same view of comedy . |
| 26 | ‘ Anyhow it no longer matters to you or to me , but whoever has the last laugh in the whole business is going to have to spend a hell of a length of time laughing . |
| 27 | The Americans must have felt as if he was taking revenge on them for what had happened , but they had the final laugh since most of Rank 's films were n't very good . |
| 28 | Sweden 's Maria Gretzer , on Marcopille , was one but they had the next fence down and were among 10 sharing third place with four faults . |
| 29 | The persuasive and analytic skills you develop are applied during your course to literary works and issues ; but they have the additional value that they are potentially transferable to other problems and circumstances . |
| 30 | But they have the grave disadvantage that they must spend almost all their waking hours eating it if they are to obtain an adequate diet . |