Example sentences of "but [pron] have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had considerable difficulty in tracking any down . |
| 2 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
| 3 | But I have sufficient faith in the good sense of the public to believe that we might prove this wrong . |
| 4 | But I have puckish news for you . |
| 5 | Some people think I am attempting the impossible , but I have enormous faith in the latent potential unexploited in this school . ’ |
| 6 | I suppose it 's possible you 've set tripwires , ’ he went on , ‘ but I have excellent night vision . ’ |
| 7 | You 'll have to excuse me if I do n't sound too lucid at the moment , but I have stinking cold . |
| 8 | ‘ I grew anxious when you did not appear , but you had good reason , and I 'm glad of your foresight in this matter . ’ |
| 9 | So the application is concerned with maintaining the accounting data and maintaining the integrity of that data but you have absolute flexibility in the tools that you use to access it and manipulate it and present it in your organization . |
| 10 | ‘ Not , ’ he went on hastily , ‘ that I liken my wife to Mr Landor nor to a wild animal , but she had similar need of kindness and nursing expertise . ’ |
| 11 | But she had nice hair — not so long as Marie 's , but just as shiny . |
| 12 | Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things . |
| 13 | She drifted pleasantly away , finding herself at the theatre with Kate Maybury , but she had black hair and carried a colander , and in the colander lay a tiny baby , but Mrs Maybury would n't let her see it , just told her to watch the show . |
| 14 | The thought did not daunt her , but she had great need of a moment of silence , to take breath and consider how much she dared tell . |
| 15 | She had limited capacity for invention , and her fairy stories are low on enchantment , but she had unusual talent for entering into a child 's feelings . |
| 16 | Auntie was not a thinker , but she had common sense and — more and more — foresight . |
| 17 | She looked like a child but she had exceptional bone structure . |
| 18 | But we had continuous climbing conditions from late November to March , reaching a peak during the cold , calm spell of continental air during early February . |
| 19 | ‘ But we had beautiful weather and a marvellous time , ’ said Mrs Williams . |
| 20 | Erm , great job , thanks a lot , unreal , nice one , topper , you 're a star , champion , thanks for doing that for me , and this one was a bit disputed , but we had top banana at the end . |
| 21 | Some did walk on their own , but they had great confidence . |
| 22 | They administered education in conformity with the law and the controls on grants for special places but they had considerable autonomy within those constraints . |
| 23 | The combination of methods utilized by smaller authorities may have to be different from those employed by larger authorities , but they have similar training objectives , and many similar needs , which should be recognized as such . |
| 24 | They do n't have hooks and crooks here but they have fucking wife beaters . |
| 25 | Touche Ross 's position is also in the balance , but they have sufficient talent to decide their own destiny . |
| 26 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 27 | These records were given conventional catalogue numbers and were sold at normal prices , but they have special label designs . |
| 28 | These statistics can easily seem impenetrable and tedious , but they have important light to throw if we can tease out their implications . |
| 29 | ‘ These dogs are not as strong as the pit bull terrier but they have immense strength all the same . |
| 30 | But he had small taste for the bagging beer and wished to have bought himself a wine . |