Example sentences of "but [pers pn] had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I usually stay later , but I had to dress for the dinner party . |
| 2 | The army had said we would average fifteen , but I had hoped for eighteen and had told them so . |
| 3 | " No , I suppose not , but I had hoped for something a little more exotic . |
| 4 | " I 'm sorry to have kept you waiting , but I had to finish with the man I had with me . |
| 5 | No it was nice now but I had to sit like that with my arms up my sleeves . |
| 6 | But I had to go in the loft . |
| 7 | But I had to return to the subject of Frankenstein . |
| 8 | ‘ I wanted to run away , to hide , but I had to return to this lonely , meaningless place . ’ |
| 9 | I was fortunate enough to obtain permission to go , but I had waited until arriving at Rizé before applying for it . |
| 10 | But I had heard of similar excuses . |
| 11 | I had never seen him before , but I had heard of him . |
| 12 | But I had to talk to you today . ’ |
| 13 | They 've been calling us cheats , but I had to call on our manager to try to put a stop to some of their own little tricks at Headingley . |
| 14 | But I had to search for Vietnam . |
| 15 | I had not told my Reed cousins about our wedding , but I had written to my uncle , John Eyre , in Madeira . |
| 16 | I know it 's easy but I had to think of something to finish the week off with . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sorry , truly I am , but I had to look after the boys . |
| 18 | But I had to speak to you you see and I dialled you while you actually said on the air that anyone that won had to speak to you and said to Karen look if you ring back I 'll put the answer phone on . |
| 19 | She 'd wanted me to come to Lochgair and say sorry to him there , but I had begged for mercy , and — rather to my surprise — been granted it . |
| 20 | But I had forgotten about Nanny . |
| 21 | I used to sit outside the job centre , then come home and say , " I have applied , but I had to send in an application form " , and I had n't even gone in there . |
| 22 | But I had left on the five o'clock train . ’ |
| 23 | I became a loner , but I had to work at it . |
| 24 | I knew Oscar would have preferred a quieter , less raucous venture , on a weekday perhaps , but I had to work on certain days and those days came up during his visit . |
| 25 | Well I sent it to the B B C , I sent it to Duncan but I also sent it to the the Lady a shorter version to the Lady their competition and I said their competition was gon na be on the eighteenth in their issue they would give the names of the of the winners , but I had looked in the Lady yesterday in Smiths and there was none of nothing about it , but I do n't think I 've won anyway because it said you 'd be notified by post so . |
| 26 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 27 | My mother had wept very little , her tears dried by her wrath , but I had cried for her . |
| 28 | But you had to get past that first because Bill was always frightened of somebody , perhaps , trying to get the better of him . |
| 29 | It had upset him at the time , but you had to get over stuff like that or you 'd go to the wall . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes ; but you had thought about it before , had n't you ? |