Example sentences of "but [pron] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But everyone has high hopes for him . |
| 2 | I can not claim to have been a close friend , but I had occasional encounters with him and , as with most people , it would be more accurate to describe them as occasional brushes . |
| 3 | A doctor said it was an infested splinter , but I had stabbing pains there — and then , at night , as I lay in bed unable to get to sleep because of the pain , I could hear a munching sound . |
| 4 | But I had considerable difficulty in tracking any down . |
| 5 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
| 6 | But I have serious blackheads . |
| 7 | ‘ You might enjoy that kind of thing , ’ he said with more than a touch of irritation , ‘ but I have other matters to see to , more important than shifting a few papers about . ’ |
| 8 | But I have other responsibilities . |
| 9 | I take the squad to Holland every year and that is something I would like to see continued but I have other ideas which it may not be possible to put into practice . |
| 10 | But I have sufficient faith in the good sense of the public to believe that we might prove this wrong . |
| 11 | But I have different slides I use for different things . |
| 12 | But I have puckish news for you . |
| 13 | I would like a home of my own but I have special requirements . |
| 14 | Some people think I am attempting the impossible , but I have enormous faith in the latent potential unexploited in this school . ’ |
| 15 | I suppose it 's possible you 've set tripwires , ’ he went on , ‘ but I have excellent night vision . ’ |
| 16 | If some of those who proposed it are proved right in several years ' time , I hope that I will admit as much , but I have grave doubts nevertheless , and they are shared by a large number of heavyweight people in the Scottish universities . |
| 17 | You 'll have to excuse me if I do n't sound too lucid at the moment , but I have stinking cold . |
| 18 | Some Orfe are also available which are basically of the golden variety , but which have varying amounts of black on them . |
| 19 | Its characteristics include adjustable string tension , a system which has been underrated in previous years but which has incalculable benefits to the regular club enthusiast . |
| 20 | Vertical integration which does not come about through merger but which has anticompetitive consequences is a potential concern of the FTA if it involves a monopoly situation . |
| 21 | Rather this is a feature which is unique to that particular generation or cohort but which has profound implications for the provision of family care to older people in the community . |
| 22 | ‘ I grew anxious when you did not appear , but you had good reason , and I 'm glad of your foresight in this matter . ’ |
| 23 | But you had political commissars ? |
| 24 | ‘ But you have other bulls , do n't you ? ’ |
| 25 | So the application is concerned with maintaining the accounting data and maintaining the integrity of that data but you have absolute flexibility in the tools that you use to access it and manipulate it and present it in your organization . |
| 26 | erm The more recent developments in erm women 's fiction , feminist fiction , erm the lead has come there certainly from America so that not only do you have leading erm women novelists but you have leading women black novelists and black women novelists and this erm of course may very well come , and I hope it does , in this country , but it has n't come at the moment . |
| 27 | But she had other worries . |
| 28 | The Press Liaison Officer took a heavy file from a shelf and almost dropped it into her hands ; but she had strong wrists and managed a gracious smile of acceptance and thanks . |
| 29 | ‘ Not , ’ he went on hastily , ‘ that I liken my wife to Mr Landor nor to a wild animal , but she had similar need of kindness and nursing expertise . ’ |
| 30 | But she had nice hair — not so long as Marie 's , but just as shiny . |