Example sentences of "but he have [vb pp] [noun] " 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 | But he had experienced complications when using them for logistics in Vietnam . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He still had not mastered the art of picking up a girl half his age who was not after his money , but he had found ways to avoid spending too much . |
| 12 | He may not have won a championship , but he had taken Leeds from bottom of the table to fourth , their highest position ever , in a much stiffer competition than the Southern League . |
| 13 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But he 'd lost sight of the figure . |
| 16 | Charlie was a cockney by birth but he 'd spent time in New York . |
| 17 | He had never been taken in , not really , not inside , but he 'd known moments of doubt , so his delight and relief were unbounded now he found that his instincts had been right all along ! |
| 18 | We have just been informed by Mr R. Warner of Photomatic Limited that the business ceased in August 1991 , but he has made arrangements with another company to carry on the photo-printing of Litho copies . |
| 19 | I would understand it if the Minister were saying merely that he is reorganising the same amount of resources , but he has cut resources . |
| 20 | But he has swopped life behind bars for the Bard . |
| 21 | The luckless hero of Waugh 's Brideshead ends tragically without wife , mistress or home ; but he has followed Waugh himself to Rome and its consoling faith , and at mass an altar-flame burns for him in his soul ‘ farther in heart than Acre or Jerusalem ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | But he has hated Paul for what happened to Johnny . |
| 24 | My own confessor would absolve you , but he has taken alms and clothing to the hospital and , if I know Father Selwyn , will no doubt spend some time there , helping out … ’ |
| 25 | But he has impressed Clough and his coaching staff . |
| 26 | I say that the greatest tragedy in the world today is that God had made man in his image and made him to worship him , made him to play the harp of worship before the face of God day and night , but he has failed God and dropped the harp . |
| 27 | Hart has formally been nominated by the Auckland union , but he has informed Auckland and several other unions who support him that he wants more time to decide whether he really wants the toil and trouble of being the All Black coach . |
| 28 | HOWARD WILKINSON may have shocked the football world by off-loading Eric Cantona to Manchester United , but he has left Alex Ferguson clutching a dangerous timebomb . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But he 's got bags of charm . |