Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 2 | Quite right ; but I 'd had a vague recollection , and looked it up , and although the shirt of the centaur Nessus , saturated as it was in his poisoned blood , had caused Hercules no end of pain … |
| 3 | Jesus , it 's pathetic , but I 'd had a few bourbons … ’ |
| 4 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 5 | But I did have a small solace . |
| 6 | But I did have a certain regard for Peter Ennalls , if you can remember him . " |
| 7 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 8 | Diane had n't been a stunner , but she 'd had a pleasant face and a more than tolerably decent body . |
| 9 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
| 10 | Very quick it was but we did have a nice bath did n't |
| 11 | We did n't have an explosion but we did have a big fire . |
| 12 | I grew up in an area that did n't have any live theatre to speak of , but we did have a local cinema house , and I was just in awe of this thing called the cinema . |
| 13 | He had toyed with the idea of taking her to Dublin anyway , but they had had a rocky road enough already and perhaps she would be better at home . |
| 14 | But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance . |
| 15 | But they 'd had a little drink in Germany , and did n't know where to head ! |
| 16 | The restored Stuarts did not have to deal with any difficulty of this sort but they did have a general problem of making sure that the King 's authority was accepted . |
| 17 | But they did have a distinct legal life . |
| 18 | But they did have a drastic effect . |
| 19 | Not that the Russians were much better , but they did have a few of the new German FW190S which Hitler had promised to Stalin as a goodwill gesture over the Poland deal . |
| 20 | He did not feel the presence of the dead poet in the room , but he did have a vague excited sense that any of these containers — the desk , the trunks , the hat-boxes , might contain some treasure like the faded letters in his own breast-pocket . |
| 21 | Unlike Guillaume , Zborowski was unbusinesslike , and a poor book-keeper , but he did have a wonderful faith in Modigliani 's talent . |
| 22 | . It was a puzzle to me to think that any customers wanted any of these things in the alley he lived , but he did have a few visitors , because he dealt in antiques , he knew a great deal about them … |
| 23 | It was not possible to construct a satisfactory double blind challenge but he did have a positive open challenge to pure ethanol . |
| 24 | But he did have a long-established base on which to build — and that was the British class system . |
| 25 | Athens had been hot and noisy , but it had had a human heart . |
| 26 | I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’ |
| 27 | Its bed and furniture were entirely homely , however , and perhaps not as dainty as the elegant young French lady might like , but it did have a nice view of the hustle and bustle of Newington Butts , and Mrs Beavis always reckoned that if you could see life going on from your window , you could n't grumble too much about not having dainty furniture . |
| 28 | Granted this helped the swelling of the coffers of the tobacco company that was the sponsor , but it did have a tremendous evangelical effect for the game , proselytising many . |