Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do have other talents . |
| 2 | Normally this might earn me an interview without coffee with my Flight Commander , but I do have an excuse for arriving at work an hour later than usual — Gazelle Flight were night-flying last night . |
| 3 | I am neither very old nor at all senile , Isabel Lavender thought , but I do have a sister who is selfish and easily led , and in this world , none of us are safe from the navy-blue ambulance . |
| 4 | ‘ But I do have a first-class ticket from Cardiff to London in my fist . |
| 5 | I may not be a trained speaker , but I do have knowledge . |
| 6 | ‘ I have finished , but I do have questions for you , Monsieur de Craon . ’ |
| 7 | But I do have quite a lot of tall plants , Water wisteria , Hygrophila and Polysperma as well as some bushy plastic plants . |
| 8 | Water management is the major part of fishkeeping — but I do have this fantasy about keeping it to the minimum and this partly explains the filtration system I am suggesting , based on a fairly standard undergravel . |
| 9 | ‘ I would seriously think about coming here for a longer stay if the right opportunity arose , but I do have a lot going for me back home , ’ said Lloyd , who spent his early years in Epping . |
| 10 | ‘ But I do have to see that the servants do everything , and since they all seem to leave as soon as they 've saved up enough money , half my time is spent finding replacements and training them . |
| 11 | ‘ Please try and remember that I did n't create the situation you 're in but I do have more experience of it than you do . |
| 12 | ‘ But I do have a real feeling of joy ! ’ |
| 13 | Had its policy been described as pea- , bird- or harebrained , I would take no exception , but I do have difficulty envisioning the hirsute minds you describe . |
| 14 | Umm yes I do have I have n't brought it with me but I do have a book at home that that erm in that showed you know the pieces of fabric that you had left over from doing all this , erm I 've got a pattern that my mother actually used to make things that were very are now very unpopular for my children . |
| 15 | But I do have to thank you . |
| 16 | ‘ You probably do n't believe it , ’ Christine offered with a sneer , ‘ but I do have a conscience . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But I do have copies of the simularity , ’ he warned . |
| 18 | Now , I was never a good getter-up but I do have the excuse that I often retire very late , particularly if I have a visitor in the afternoon and need to get a bit of washing or something done at night when it is possible to get on with it without interruptions . |
| 19 | But I do have an apology to make , ’ she confessed unsteadily , digging her nails into the palm of her hand in her lap as his eyes narrowed on her face . |
| 20 | But I do have to say that if you take the time off in the middle of term , I 'm afraid I wo n't be able to guarantee your post when you return to us . ’ |
| 21 | Well i I 'm happy , I mean I was just going to make that point , sir , but I do have other points , but I 'll wait . |
| 22 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 23 | But I do have something from the membership secretary . |
| 24 | But I do have a headache , ’ Paige responded stolidly . |
| 25 | ‘ I may be missing in the memory department , but I do have a brain . |
| 26 | If however , you 're confused about anything this afternoon , or you want more information about , you know , managing time and so on , give me a call please , er , my number is and er , I may not be there , but I do have an answerphone , and I will get back to you as soon as I can . |
| 27 | I ca n't play one personally but I do have a lady in my band who 's who can , very very good accordion player who assures me she can play a zither as well you see . |
| 28 | Erm but I do have some sympathy with Harrogate 's position and indeed Selby 's position er to some extent . |
| 29 | But I did have to worry about whether we were going to have the cash flow in ten years ' time to make sure that the parts can be paid for so the chap on the shop floor can stick the thing together . |
| 30 | I 'd come out on the simple camera-fetching errand without the complete zipped pouch of gadgets but I did have with me the belt holding my knife and the multi-purpose survival tool , and on the back of that tool there was a mirror . |