Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Lunch will be more convenient , dear , but after that we 've put the whole of the rest of the day aside to have a thorough discussion of your problems . |
| 2 | The Alsatians , their thick pelts soaked and steaming , had sniffed with some certainty around a little icon of the Virgin which stood by the roadside , sheltered from the rain by a stone arch , but after that they had rambled unhappily this way and that and returned whining to their handlers , who were knee-deep in mud , soaked to the skin and cursing roundly . |
| 3 | If he says stand on your head you will , but after that he 's got to do it all by persuasion . |
| 4 | Simon now lives at a nursing home in Hampshire … but after all they 've been through together , he 's spending time with his mum and dad . |
| 5 | Mind you , I felt a bit mean at being amused , but after all they had only themselves to blame . |
| 6 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 7 | ‘ We have to sentence and the sentence must be a meaningful one , but above all we have to have the long-term support of parents for the biggest range of offenders are appallingly young . |
| 8 | ‘ We have to sentence and the sentence must be a meaningful one , but above all we have to have the long-term support of parents for the biggest range of offenders are appallingly young . |
| 9 | It was , and is , a vast , sparsely populated plain with countless lakes and some of the world 's mightiest rivers , rivers which had to be crossed , but above all it has trees , mile after mile after mile of primeval forest , called the taiga , which , even today , is inhabited by tigers , bears and wolves . |
| 10 | The defendant squatter , Tillson , had occupied several acres of agricultural land belonging to the council since 1967 , but in 1983 he had apparently acknowledged the plaintiff council 's title by becoming their tenant of the land . |
| 11 | He and Richard must have heard about these things but in general they had failed to register . |
| 12 | But in private he had already told Lord Home that he should prepare to succeed him , and the ‘ customary processes ’ duly resulted in Home being chosen . |
| 13 | After the execution of Majorian , Ricimer appointed Severus as emperor ; four years later he agreed to the elevation of Anthemius , but in 472 he had Anthemius executed and replaced him with Olybrius . |
| 14 | Eliot had known Lawrence 's work for some time , but in 1931–2 he had grown particularly interested in that writer , whose ‘ travels to more primitive lands ’ and use of Mexican divinities in The Plumed Serpent were physical embodiment of Eliot 's anthropological reading and a likely reason for that title , After Strange Gods . |
| 15 | But in this I have . |
| 16 | As Mr Cardinal had indicated , M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper ; I can not recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously , but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these , he feared , were growing septic . |
| 17 | Lewyn 's works at Carlisle and Roxburgh were completed by 1387 , but in 1380 he had contracted with John of Gaunt , Duke of Lancaster [ q.v. ] , |
| 18 | Such clinics had always been prohibited from using federal money to perform abortions , but until 1988 they had been allowed to discuss abortion and to provide information about its availability . |
| 19 | They did not recognize the British calendar , or , indeed , she was later to discover , their own : their first choice of conference date had been Boxing Day , but from this they had been dissuaded . |
| 20 | Retrospective evidence from 1840 suggests that up to 1796 when it came into use , a master weaver could earn around 12s 6d ( 62½p ) a week , but from this he had , essentially on the old two-man loom , to pay a journeyman 3s 6d ( 17½p ) and his board , and a further 2s ( 10p ) to a child assistant . |
| 21 | Initially they had a duty to promote only the welfare of the blind but from 1951 they had power to promote the welfare of the deaf and of the general classes of the physically handicapped . |
| 22 | A FUSION of pop and hardcore grunge that comes up smelling of the '60s summer sound , but to this they have fitted on a beat of their own which is well worth sitting up and paying attention to . |
| 23 | I hesitate to pronounce on the degree of tranquillity in his life , but since 1943 he has not been further than sixty miles from this spot . |
| 24 | But since 1981 it has been commonly said , and positively emphasised by the authorities themselves , that interest rates in the UK economy are largely ‘ market determined ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ But since 1980 we have used liquid carbon dioxide . |
| 26 | They are also popular in the United Kingdom , but since 1980 they have suffered a decline . |
| 27 | According to the 1989 census , Abkhazia was only 17.8 per cent Abkhaz and 45.7 per cent Georgian ( other major ethnic groups being Russians and Armenians ) , but since 1978 it had demanded secession from Georgia , this campaign having escalated in 1990 [ see pp. 37665 ; 38079 ] . |
| 28 | It was Hyacinth 's first party conference , but at nineteen she had been around . |
| 29 | Topaz was soon to learn that the colourful and derogatory remarks which passed between Angela and Oswin meant nothing , but at first she had been startled . |
| 30 | She wished she 'd already applied her make-up ; she was still good-looking without it , she knew , but at thirty-eight you had to expect a few flaws . |