Example sentences of "but have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It started off as a laugh , but has become a job to me . |
| 2 | He knew little of health administration before accepting the position but has become an expert during four years of radical change in the NHS . |
| 3 | Mr Forman served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the former Chancellor , Mr Nigel Lawson , but has gained a reputation as a critic of Mrs Thatcher 's style of government . |
| 4 | He has yet to receive his cheque but has received a letter from BR 's legal department to say it is on its way . |
| 5 | She claims she could have been treated soon after birth , but has suffered a lifetime of pain and disability . |
| 6 | Dr Marshall has admitted that the office was ‘ a bit untidy ’ but has made an effort to clean it . |
| 7 | This common sense has affected not only Conservatism 's traditional adherents , but has had an effect upon that Conservatism latent in working-class respectability . |
| 8 | He has refused , so far , to bring the Moroccan troops home , but has issued a pamphlet explaining that they are not under allied command , and will not attack Iraq . |
| 9 | Who 's got brown eyes but has got a mum or dad with blue eyes ? |
| 10 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 11 | But having rejected a compromise which , for boxing , was about as good as it gets , he ca n't continue claiming innocence if it leads to the heavyweight division again disintegrating into chaos . |
| 12 | I was still at the crease , but having pulled a muscle in my leg I was batting with a runner . |
| 13 | Hekmatyar was reported on Aug. 23 to have received a joint mujaheddin peace delegation representing several provinces , but to have rejected a proposal from Rabbani that a ceasefire should not be conditional on the withdrawal from Kabul of the powerful Uzbek militia led by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam . |
| 14 | France was neither oblivious of nor indifferent to the outcome of the war which she was fighting and for which , as the US kept saying , she was primarily responsible ; but to have had a chance of winning at that stage it would probably have had to be a French rather than a Vietnamese war . |
| 15 | All the difficulties with ‘ wet white ’ were eliminated in Birmingham where there was an obscure ruling that bare legs were banned ( this remained in force as late as the 1950s ) , so when playing there they were given cotton tights but had to put a penny at the side , wrap a piece of string round it and the tights in order to hold them up . |
| 16 | One of the Norwegian girls , Riborg , was the daughter of a ship owner , but had attended a folk high school , along with children whose parents were cobblers and other manual labourers . |
| 17 | He rested his glass on the paunch now , regarded them owlishly , and gave the impression , as always , of someone who had not gone through the usual process of growing up , but had remained a toddler , magnified to the nth degree . |
| 18 | The two reportedly denied reports that they had left their London hotel to attend the Palestine National Council ( PNC ) meeting in Algiers in September [ see pp. 38453-54 ] , and the PLO news agency Wafa on Sept. 26 said that they had not attended the PLO meeting in person , but had sent a message which was read out to the political committee . |
| 19 | In announcing the appointment Bush described Card , a former state legislator in Massachusetts , as " a friend of many years " , who had served in Bush 's campaign teams in the presidential elections of 1980 and 1988 , had then served for three years as deputy Chief of Staff to the controversial John Sununu , but had maintained a reputation for managerial efficiency and diplomacy . |
| 20 | They had not only been active in discussion among themselves , but had become a source of commentary about the state of the nation . |
| 21 | She was Australian , had no real qualifications , but had created a furore in the medical world by her determination to use unorthodox methods in the treatment of infantile paralysis . |
| 22 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 23 | The court heard that he had not meant to set the car on fire but had lit a cigarette and thrown the match on to the vehicle . |
| 24 | He was working for his cousin in Sheffield market as an apprentice butcher , but had bought a trumpet and intended , one day , to become Louis Armstrong . |
| 25 | And , if I remember rightly , Father was not only going to continue that allowance but had bought a house for you , had n't he ? |
| 26 | Toby would have liked to inquire further , but had feared a snub at his age and inexperience . |
| 27 | It ran from South Shields to Whitburn Colliery , and was mainly used by miners ; passengers were carried from 1885 , but had to sign an indemnity form as the Board of Trade had not passed the railway . |
| 28 | She had hoped for a new freedom , but had found a trap . |
| 29 | On Saturday , he had been tied up all day in the stable , but had taken a walk round the Broad over the lunch hour . |
| 30 | Marovitz , theatre director and critic , had quit New York in 1958 , but had retained a writing relationship with the Voice , which led him , early in 1966 , to cover the new-born Indica for the paper . |