Example sentences of "but [pers pn] had [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but I had that ages ago in one of my |
| 2 | But I had two brothers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Everybody wanted that , but I had some contacts , I knew I could get in there . |
| 6 | But I had three glasses of sherry quickly . |
| 7 | I know I mean I stayed with him but I had three kids . |
| 8 | But you had political commissars ? |
| 9 | We the both together you could g you could go down either shaft , but you had three doors to come through from one pit to the other . |
| 10 | But she had other worries . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had a heavily lined face , a prominent , almost hawk-like nose , but she had kindly eyes and every so often she would display a vein of sharp humour that suggested her family had to keep their shoes clean when they approached her little parlour . |
| 13 | But she had three children , yet that did n't really signify anything : cows had calves , horses had foals , pigs had litters . |
| 14 | Onlookers were impressed by her vivid presence , but she had few views or wishes of her own , being content to follow her brother 's lead in literary , political , and religious matters . |
| 15 | No we did n't because I had bought various things , I like antiques so does my husband , I 'd bought various things while he was away in this erm , the card table and er , I had a new place of stuff , er but since we 've been , but we had odd chairs did n't we ? |
| 16 | But we had various versions of M1 , but we did n't ever get rid of the first version , so we could , the one that Suzannah did and then the one that I changed , and then the one that the Committee changed , all exist so that we can back track what we actually did . |
| 17 | Susan Goldin-Meadow 's subjects were unacquainted deaf children ; but they had normal parents who did not try to communicate with them by gesture , or at least not in sequences as the children did : |
| 18 | Nothing is known of his first wife whom he married c .1730 , but they had two daughters . |
| 19 | But they had other stresses like food shortages . |
| 20 | But they had all sorts of virtually now do n't they ? |
| 21 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 22 | Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages . |
| 23 | The appointment and overthrow of individual emperors were largely matters of Italian politics , but they had significant repercussions in Gaul , not least because of the close personal connections between Ricimer and the Burgundian royal family , the Gibichungs . |
| 24 | Country weavers and knitters were to become better remembered for the long sad days of their early nineteenth-century decline , but they had happier days when they consumed the products made by their fellow artisans in Burslem , Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 25 | I mean not just filthy i er bodily but they had filthy habits . |
| 26 | They were ungainly vehicles with double-flight stairs and short canopies , but they had top covers and Brill 22E bogies , which were more reliable than the Brush bogies under their own cars . |
| 27 | There were indeed three men of £200 at Cirencester , a major centre of the West of England wool trade , but they had few peers locally ; Newbury had four big clothiers , including the son of the legendary John Winchcombe , who was worth £630 , but here too there was no concentration of wealth comparable with that of Suffolk . |
| 28 | as indeed they were in 1922–23 , but they had few prospects under coalition . |
| 29 | The win took the Republic back up to second place in the Group behind Spain on goal difference but they had enough chances to close the six-goal gap on the pace-setters . |
| 30 | The Rorim itself was not so well defended , but they had enough men to neutralise Bragad and hold the gates — for a while . |