Example sentences of "but [pron] had [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Little won the race and Andy Pitts came second , but I had beaten three others who had originally been selected ahead of me , including Cameron Sharp , who the following year was to have a great outdoor season . |
| 2 | I noticed that Aunt Louise could thread her needle without too much trouble and even write a few letters , but I had heard that sight is often impaired by poor health , and prided myself that this improvement might be due to good food and peace of mind . |
| 3 | I knew that he had given about 4,000 volumes , but I had kept this information to myself . |
| 4 | ‘ He was a big man , but I had studied martial arts and felt confident that I could get away if he made the wrong move . |
| 5 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 6 | But she had made huge progress , Lisa congratulated herself as she got ready to pack up at the end of another exhausting day . |
| 7 | But she had recognized faint glimmerings of fanaticism in his recent actions . |
| 8 | But she had known this encounter was coming ever since she and Florian had attracted the attention of the photographers covering the concert at one of Taipei 's main sports stadiums the previous night . |
| 9 | He was a good-looking man with his jet-black hair and intimidating jawline , but she had encountered any number far more handsome , yet none had stirred her the way he could with a single glance from those incredible eyes . |
| 10 | But she had spent many years perfecting the art of the memo . |
| 11 | The tenants ' rent books had been correctly marked up by her , but she had put different figures into the ledger and cash book . |
| 12 | Her eyepatch apart , she bore no obvious scars , but she had fought many battles , vanquished many foes . |
| 13 | Very neatly and no one could say when , but something had died that night . |
| 14 | It was next door to the Infants School but we had heard terrifying stories about life there . |
| 15 | But they had lost ten yards in the manoeuvre , and the Zodiac was almost back into the surf . |
| 16 | They were only eating what remained of the summer 's grass , but they had struck some chord in Mrs Monro . |
| 17 | But they had had this conversation so often and to such little purpose that he had long ago abandoned his part of the dialogue . |
| 18 | These doors were now firmly closed , but they had opened several times since Zen 's arrival , admitting a succession of visitors who had forced their way through the mass of bodies and expectant faces in the corridor outside , sweltering under television lights and waving microphones in front of anyone who appeared . |
| 19 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 20 | Pauline was a few years older than Chris , who was 31 , but they had found mutual support and love , and together created the opportunity to live on their own . |
| 21 | She did n't see Simone very often , but they had known each other from their schooldays and could pick up their friendship without the slightest difficulty . |
| 22 | The Brownies did n't know it , but he had asked Brown Owl to marry him . |
| 23 | But he had given patient thought to the matter , just as he had to the rest of the alien anatomy ; and he had ventured on what I can only call an abstraction of the human face . |
| 24 | The emergency services were in attendance within 22 minutes , but he had received fatal injuries . |
| 25 | It concerned the plot to overthrow his brother and form a new dictatorship ; but he had discovered another side to the story , a sinister angle that would make international headlines if it were ever made public . |
| 26 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 27 | Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane . |
| 28 | He was surprised , there was not an ounce of fat on him , but he had shed five pounds . |
| 29 | One MPG teacher thought that , in theory , job satisfaction would increase if there was greater involvement in making decision , but he had had little experience of this ! |
| 30 | By the time Marx wrote Formen he had not yet read Maine and Phear , who were to influence him later , but he had read descriptive accounts of Indian and Indonesian village life and history , especially in Sir Thomas Raffles , History of Java [ 1817 ] , M. Wilks , Historical Sketches of the South of India [ 1810–17 ] , and G. Campbell , Modern India [ 1852 ] , all of which are quoted in Capital . |