Example sentences of "but he had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had two batting sessions at the indoor nets at Bradford yesterday and was sufficiently satisfied with his progress to announce his comeback . |
| 2 | he did some of the flying himself but he had other pilots . |
| 3 | By the time Billy opened at the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , Crawford had a standby , Billy Boyle , but he had other worries . |
| 4 | I do n't know who killed him , but he had many enemies in Scotland . |
| 5 | But he had good reasons . |
| 6 | I knew somebody else who could do that , but he had four feet . |
| 7 | But he had small taste for the bagging beer and wished to have bought himself a wine . |
| 8 | The Marquis de Chamlay , his most important military adviser in his later years , had the title of Maréchal-Général des Logis ; but he had little experience of active service and was often employed on non-military tasks . |
| 9 | But he had little confidence of backing from a UK government which seemed to have no idea about the fishing industry . |
| 10 | But he had little reason yet to ask for a search warrant and Mr Simpson would go purple in the face and throw every legal book in his considerable library at him if he so much as tried . |
| 11 | But he had immediate treatment , and manager Kenny Dalgish reported : ‘ It does n't look serious . ’ |
| 12 | But he had additional sources of wealth and troops . |
| 13 | He was not quite sure who it was , but he had certain ideas . |
| 14 | John 's slight built made him a tantalising opponent , but he had scorching pace and neat control , while also possessing the ability to cut inside and shoot powerfully for goal himself , so that he could always be relied upon to contribute several useful goals each season . |
| 15 | He did not regain any ability to use his right arm , but he had minimal spasticity in it , and no pain . |
| 16 | His dark hair was thinning on top , but he had bushy side whiskers as if it had all slipped downwards , and his chin was a dimpled mound seeming to support an ever-smiling mouth . |
| 17 | He wanted to get on with the job of examining the clothes and , he hoped , identifying the body , but he had another job to do first — to call on the River Police and give them such facts as he had . |
| 18 | But he had more craft and policy , more capacity to wait , to present a good face to the world , and to advance step by step towards his goal . |
| 19 | John did not have his brother Bobby 's ease on a platform but he had more integrity and honesty and he knew he had to do it . |
| 20 | The challenge was taken up by Harry Baker , who being provided with a weight placed it in a backet and walked from Halling Institute to Snodland Institute , so winning the bet , but he had more difficulty collecting his winnings . |
| 21 | He contemplated eating a meat pie at the stall by the church , but he had enough experience of phantom hunger at night to know that it would disappear of its own accord by morning and that it was best not to squander money on appeasing it . |
| 22 | Kitson 's views were derided by the establishment but he had important influence in both radical and lunatic fringe circles . |
| 23 | But he had ethnographic remarks to make about both Spain ( Strabo 3.4.17 ) and Gaul ( 4.4.6 ) , and he seems to have prepared the way for the far more comprehensive enquiry of Posidonius . |
| 24 | The burgess might have no land at all in the fields ; but he had this right to graze his cattle after Lammas over any man 's lands , freely and wherever he liked . |
| 25 | But he had this thing about us [ seven brothers — two in Jamaica — and two sisters ] concentrating more and more on school work . ’ |
| 26 | A little gig It was n't a gig either , he did have a gig but he had this thing , a sort of long shaped er What would you call it ? |
| 27 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 28 | Casino boss Peter Welter said : ‘ He had n't a clue about gambling , but he had enormous luck . ’ |