Example sentences of "but he [verb] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he admitted he had n't seen the pictures before firing Mr Hughes from his £22,000-a-year job with office equipment suppliers Fellowes . |
| 2 | Ooh he kept , but he kept I 'd even worked out my train to , from Ealing down |
| 3 | But he felt he had proved himself a man , at twenty-three , and , as the returning warrior , had a belief that there would be no parental opposition . |
| 4 | He might still only be a juvenile who had never flown freely on the wind but he felt he had done nothing to warrant the abuse and fury of an eagle whose name he did not even know . |
| 5 | It was unnecessary , but he felt he had to do something . |
| 6 | He was unhappy but he felt he had at last sorted his life out . |
| 7 | But he said they 've just I mean this year the whole orchard . |
| 8 | He would n't go into details over the phone but he said it had something to do with Bernard . |
| 9 | Certainly , nobody else wanted me , but he said I had character . ’ |
| 10 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 11 | Oh do n't forget these lads , but he said I 've got a present for you lads . |
| 12 | and , and play he said , and then try it for a , but he said you 've got to do it a few times |
| 13 | he said you are by the number of payments you is n't paid he said you have n't paid for almost a year but he said you have n't money . |
| 14 | I mean , I can remember seeing an interview with er , John Geilgud and he 'd he 'd done Hamlet many years ago and er but he said he 'd it was in a totally different way you know , different |
| 15 | He had no dignity to speak of , only money , but he said he had a sore throat . |
| 16 | ‘ Monsieur Bonard knew that something very serious was on Alain 's mind , but he said he had no idea what it was . |
| 17 | Judge Hart gave Yvonne Scott an 18-month sentence , suspended for three years , but he said he had no doubt she too was part of the ‘ den of thieves ’ . |
| 18 | But he said he 's got a lot of things to go through before he |
| 19 | There was n't a note , but he knew she 'd gone for good . |
| 20 | Lachlan was near heaving the shipmaster overboard , but he knew he 'd been wrong . |
| 21 | It cost Galvone a lot to say that but he knew he 'd blundered . |
| 22 | He tried to persuade himself that he 'd locked it but he knew he had n't . |
| 23 | He opened the other drawer but he knew he had n't put them in there . |
| 24 | Nigel was not quite sure Eleanor believed him , but he knew he had presented a plausible explanation . |
| 25 | He desperately needed a drink but he knew he had to get through the next little while — ten minutes , half an hour , an hour — completely sober . |
| 26 | Monument Hill was the last place he wanted to go to , but he knew he had to see it again for himself . |
| 27 | Jack had no idea but he knew he had to do something . |
| 28 | Edouard had already begun his campaign to persuade his mother to divert some of her capital holdings into an expansion programme for de Chavigny , but he knew he had to proceed slowly . |
| 29 | He was aware of the immense arrogance of this , but he knew he had not mistaken that long , steady look . |
| 30 | But he knew he had to be patient . |