Example sentences of "but [pron] [noun] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if I had a 90 per cent chance of surviving , but my child had a similar chance of being badly handicapped ? |
| 2 | I had learned very little , but my mother had no means of testing me . |
| 3 | But my mother had no learning , no wide experience : merely the prejudices , the powerfully surviving cliches , of her own upbringing . |
| 4 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 5 | The proprietor must have thought that they were lovers because he showed them to the most secluded table in the place , talking all the while in rapid French , which she could n't understand at all , but which Piers had no trouble in comprehending . |
| 6 | She answered the questions in her interrogation with perfect candour , but her answers had the effect of crystallising her basic thinking . |
| 7 | But her copies had a witty twist . |
| 8 | But her copies had a witty twist . |
| 9 | But her mother had the same sort of chin . |
| 10 | All the waiters were suave and deferential , but her waiter had an edge . |
| 11 | But her body had no such fears . |
| 12 | Burger did a tactical throat clearing but his wife had no qualms . |
| 13 | His parents had no piano , but his grandmother had a baby grand and he taught himself to play that whenever he visited her . |
| 14 | There was a glittering look in those dark eyes but his lips had a very sardonic twist and she knew he was about to make some scathing comment . |
| 15 | Hincmar may have idealised ninth-century consensus politics ; but his picture had a basis in reality . |
| 16 | He called it " Propopamide " but his lordship had the utmost faith in him . |
| 17 | There he halted , staring down into the flames , but his stillness had a taut , barely restrained quality that kept her heart beating much too fast , and though he seemed totally absorbed in the glowing fire Isabel sensed he was aware of her every movement . |
| 18 | But what function had the saints in heaven if not to make good the deficiency ? |