Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had doubts that I could play at this level but I 've had great support from everyone . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Not that it 's any of your damn business , but I 've had glandular fever . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But I had to have some excuse , you see . |
| 4 | Erm but I do have some sympathy with Harrogate 's position and indeed Selby 's position er to some extent . |
| 5 | Water management is the major part of fishkeeping — but I do have this fantasy about keeping it to the minimum and this partly explains the filtration system I am suggesting , based on a fairly standard undergravel . |
| 6 | ‘ Please try and remember that I did n't create the situation you 're in but I do have more experience of it than you do . |
| 7 | Ordinary PVA will work , but I have had best success with the water resistant . |
| 8 | I had problems at first , but I have had more help from your magazine than I could get from the instruction book especially with the Fair Isle necklines . |
| 9 | Then that would sort of feed itself , but you had to have one man feeding the the scrapping machine and another man with a shovel , pulling away the the the the the the scrapped at the side and then you had to have another man feeding the long hay into the chaff cutter . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I might have hurt you — God knows I tried to be careful , but you seem to have this knack of wiping out twenty-five years of control and finesse with a single touch . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , ‘ you are in one piece , but you have had slight concussion . |
| 12 | But you have to have some level of arousal has to be something pumping round you round your blood your brain has to be working in some way to be able to perform . |
| 13 | ‘ But you do have some idea who it could be ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But we seem to have this thing in Wales about always knocking our best players and looking around to try to put forward rivals who are n't as good . ’ |
| 15 | He admitted : ‘ Seve and I are different personalities but we do have one thing in common — we want to prove we are the best . |
| 16 | Still waiting for a lot of the reports to come in , but we did have one winner on Guess the Scores this afternoon . |
| 17 | But we did have this idea that the whole tribe went around together . |
| 18 | But they had had this conversation so often and to such little purpose that he had long ago abandoned his part of the dialogue . |
| 19 | but they 've had ten pound a week telephone stamps |
| 20 | I think some stations might do that , but they only do it if , if it 's , if it 's not going to be detrimental to the turn out , in other words they , they have a system , erm for instance they have a duty crew over the weekend , so that at least some can take their families to the seaside if they wanted to , so six will remain around the house er er but they do have some system , but I think the majority of fire stations , there are twenty seven in Suffolk like that , who work on the system of getting there as quickly as they can , and that is the best competition to get there , to get the ride . |
| 21 | Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | But he seems to have one problem that I 'm too embarrassed to ask him about . |
| 24 | But he seems to have this antagonism towards the local people . |
| 25 | Given the number that he drew in the ballot , it was not certain that he would have the chance of a debate on his Bill , but he has had that opportunity and has spoken with his customary mellifluence . |
| 26 | But he has had personal success at triggering such changes . |
| 27 | It was just a quickie , I just wanted to read this little point that I actually think brings lots of what you 've been discussing about together , and it 's a light hearted , but it does have some relevance if I can just say it . |
| 28 | It is not a particularly good book and Niki despises it , but it does have some home truths in it . |
| 29 | Academically , this test is not very accurate but it does have some value as a rough comparative test between different materials . |
| 30 | But it has had limited success . |