Example sentences of "but he have [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But he had discovered that-joining the police had , for one reason or another , cut him off very largely from his old source of supply .
2 Truman struggled to keep down prices through the Office of Price Administration ( OPA ) — a wartime agency still in existence — but he had limited success .
3 In word and gesture , the T'ang was a great and powerful man — a T'ang , unmistakably a king among men — but he had lost contact with the very thing that had made — had shaped — his outer form .
4 When he had gone , Sandison got to his feet but he had lost sight of Elsie .
5 He had also engaged to do the same thing for Chief Superintendent John Coffin and one or two other enemies if he could get round to them , but he had let Place know that he had a prior claim .
6 There were lives to keep , yes , valuable to their lords and their wives alike , but he had learned warfare in another school , and without the shock of arms and the life staked there was no savour .
7 He came from the Po valley , but he had caught malaria during his stint in the south and had the southern malaria victim 's sallowness .
8 Anselm had not yet visited Canterbury , but he had got hold of the one thing necessary for understanding the members of the old monastic community : they wanted recognition of their saints and understanding of their tradition .
9 But he had paid part of that apothecary 's bill that very morning , and the attorney to whom the bailiff took him agreed there had been a mistake .
10 Scott nearly said , ‘ My wife is ill , ’ but he had cried wolf too often : other people 's wives did n't telephone the station as relentlessly as Annabel .
11 But he 'd lost sight of the figure .
12 Charlie was a cockney by birth but he 'd spent time in New York .
13 But he has swopped life behind bars for the Bard .
14 But he has kept goal exceptionally well , not only this season but for two or three years and it would be unwise for me not to look at him . ’
15 He has n't redeemed and restored back to what we were , but he 's gone way , way beyond that , in making us his children and bringing us into a very special relationship with himself .
16 No but he 's got hair like one .
17 She 's traumatised and dehydrated but otherwise unharmed but he 's got soul brother 's limbs where his own ought to be ; necrosis like frostbite , blood-death at the extremities but the extremities start at shoulder and groin ; he 's alive but if you were him you 'd rather not be .
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