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Example sentences for "but have"

  • I must go dress for dinner, and you perceive that I wish I had, but have nothing to tell you.

  • I have waited till this morning, but have no letter from you; what can be the meaning of it?

  • Yea, but have a special care, quoth Panurge, when thou comest to put thy nose within mine arse, that thou forget not to pull off thy spectacles.

  • I have still no right to denounce or applaud or in any way characterize Mr. Smith's special arrangements; but have I not a right to discuss in the most public manner the general features of the custom?

  • Whether she stopped there, or drove into Ethiopian wastes beyond, I cannot say; but have no doubt that the milk which she carried into Newburyport to market was blue, the butter frowy, and the potatoes exceedingly small.

  • But have I not seen Gravity out of his bed at midnight?

  • They speak of moving society, but have no resting-place without it.

  • They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay.

  • But have we not other and conclusive evidence, that primitive Christians were not slaveholders?

  • The petitioners have not trusted to my fallible judgment alone, but have declared, in written documents, the most solemn expression of their will.

  • They have not only been ready to acknowledge that their fathers have exercised great cruelty toward their slaves, but have voluntarily, in their official acts, made proclamation of it and entered it on their public records.

  • I am much better than I have been during the last week, but have a cold.

  • I don't quite know what I mean by that; but have a general impression that I mean something knowing.

  • We had not intended to go back there, but have arranged to do so on the day after Ash Wednesday.

  • I am not going to the course this morning, but have engaged a carriage (open, and pair) for to-morrow and Friday.

  • We are none of us content with quietly unfolding our own individualities to the full in all directions; but have a restless craving to impress our individualities upon others, and in some way subordinate them.

  • Hearing is not like seeing," replied the King; "I have seen him, but have noted in him not one of the attributes of perfection.

  • They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but have a curved beak, and a longer tail.

  • These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis.

  • They somewhat resemble true scorpions, but have a long, slender bristle, or lashlike organ, at the end of the body, instead of a sting.

  • I myself continued my journey, and arrived at Thessalonica on the 23rd of May, but have no certain intelligence about his journey except that he had left Ephesus some time ago.

  • But why do I address these exhortations to you, who are not only capable of carrying them out of your own accord without anyone's instruction, but have already to a great extent thoroughly done so?

  • I think I have noted that noon at Bale is at eleven o'clock--an absurdity due to some historic event, which I had explained to me but have forgotten.

  • That is easily said and easily done, but have I sufficient talent?

  • You do me too much honour, and I don't believe you; but have it as you like.

  • So's he, who in the path of life doth plod, Take all, says he, let me but have my God.

  • I have never had the ministers' sore throat, but have avoided it by the observance of two or three rules which I commend to you of less experience.

  • Gloves are good to keep out the cold and make one look well, but have them so they can easily be removed, as they should be, for they are non-conductors of Christian magnetism.

  • But have we not said and repeated over and over again, that as long as there are capitalists, these abuses of power will be perpetuated?

  • But have a single kitchen with a single fire and organize it as beautifully as you are able to.

  • We pass by the infra-human and the supra-human bestiality and holiness; but have still to deal with Continence and its contrasted qualities, which are concerned with the passions.

  • There are some men like dictionaries; to be looked into upon occasions, but have no connection, and are little entertaining.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but because; but before; but being; but every; but found; but his eyes were; but nevertheless; but only; but perhaps; but see; but she said nothing; but she was not; but still; but suddenly; but the greatest part; but the moment after; but they were all; but those; but upon; but very; but when they came; deciduous trees; even less; good painting; laid paper; shall choose