Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MIKE LESTER : ( Breaking in ) That 's all very well , but I 've another proposal entirely . |
| 2 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 3 | I did it willingly because I still loved his company so much , but I had little money . |
| 4 | But I had some pain passing water today . ’ |
| 5 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 6 | I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’ |
| 7 | But I had considerable difficulty in tracking any down . |
| 8 | But I had this polyneuritis coming on and I gr gradually went paralysed . |
| 9 | It had never been done before , but I had this premonition , and of course it proved true . ’ |
| 10 | But I had this instinct that you 'd have a better chance if you first spent some time with me — ’ |
| 11 | But I have one word of advice to contributors to this debate . |
| 12 | I very much appreciate the honour of moving this motion , but I have one sadness — the fact that Alick Buchanan-Smith , a colleague and great personal friend of mine , a person who served this House , the Government and his constituency so well , is not with us today . |
| 13 | The above examples came from three different speakers from East London , but I have one example from South East London as well . |
| 14 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm sorry , but I have little sympathy for him . |
| 16 | but I have two cheese sa two cheesy sandwiches , and col coleslaw for my dinner and erm I do n't have I have chicken on , on erm a , cos what you call it ? |
| 17 | But I have sufficient faith in the good sense of the public to believe that we might prove this wrong . |
| 18 | But I have more chance of improving that than knocking 10 years off Gregory or adding speed to Fox . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , we had a quarrel , but I have more sense than to seek a confrontation . |
| 20 | But I have puckish news for you . |
| 21 | Some people think I am attempting the impossible , but I have enormous faith in the latent potential unexploited in this school . ’ |
| 22 | I suppose it 's possible you 've set tripwires , ’ he went on , ‘ but I have excellent night vision . ’ |
| 23 | You 'll have to excuse me if I do n't sound too lucid at the moment , but I have stinking cold . |
| 24 | ‘ But I have this feeling I ought to do something . |
| 25 | But I have some sympathy for the institutions ' view that their duty is to their policyholders and they can not be expected to double up as company regulators . |
| 26 | It has n't been in the , I cover , but I have some information you gave me , it has n't been in that at all , mm . |
| 27 | ‘ I grew anxious when you did not appear , but you had good reason , and I 'm glad of your foresight in this matter . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | erm So that at Newhaven at the present day you now have a fossil cliff , now largely buried because the tertiary sands and clays which sit on top of the chalk have slumped over , and so much of the original chalk cliff face is , is now buried , but you have this mass of slump material on what was formerly beach , and the gravel ridges stretch for what , one hundred , two hundred or more metres erm from the bottom of the cliff . |
| 30 | She felt happier about Kathleen now that she knew that she had a champion in Ella , but she had little time to dwell on the O'Neills . |