Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't do so , but I did make another suggestion . |
| 2 | But I did see black guillemots swimming down in the bay , and a gully full of boulders where they probably nest . ’ |
| 3 | But I did write one thing at school , the school pantomime , which nobody wanted to be in anyway . |
| 4 | Enid : No , but I did get some pleasure from the abuse . |
| 5 | But I did get another tingle of excitement when I swam a shade too near a jagged reef , and she grabbed me by the shoulder to pull me away . |
| 6 | ’ That neither did she , but she did expect common civility . ’ |
| 7 | But she did make two purchases from the hat and the dress departments with the money which J. D. O'Conner had given her for the two articles which she had written for him . |
| 8 | But she did make one request . |
| 9 | She did not reflect that only a few weeks ago she would have thought it impossible that she could have lived the life of a servant , let alone bear eating and drinking in the den in which Rose and her ma lived , but she did know one thing — she would never take her comfortable life for granted again . |
| 10 | But she did know one thing . |
| 11 | Katherine liked to believe that she was n't vindictive , but she did have certain rules , certain standards , both for her house and her business , and one of the reasons she had been so successful both in Dublin and now in London , was because she applied those rules rigorously . |
| 12 | In summary , Mr Chairman , the overall mortality rate for disease , for T U R P , over the northern region was point three percent and this compares very well with the large published theories from America but we did find large inter-site variations for both mortality and major morbidity rates . |
| 13 | Still waiting for a lot of the reports to come in , but we did have one winner on Guess the Scores this afternoon . |
| 14 | But we did have this idea that the whole tribe went around together . |
| 15 | Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat . |
| 16 | They did n't preach to her , but they did love each other . |
| 17 | The fee for performing at Yeovilton was not high but they did offer free fuel . |
| 18 | v. Ratcliffe the plaintiffs refused to admit coloured persons to their ballroom but they did allow coloured musicians to play in the orchestra . |
| 19 | Moreover , the vast majority of the peasantry were already semi-socialist : they were not yet persuaded of the need for collective farming , but they did reject private landownership and depended upon the labour of their own hands . |
| 20 | Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war . |
| 21 | Differences in wealth were not easily transmuted into self-conscious social distinctions , but they did require certain forms of expenditure . |
| 22 | The great industrial changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not alter the traditional family structure of previous generations , but they did provide economic opportunities for earlier marriages and thus for more children . |
| 23 | Acton was certainly a minority spokesman and was challenged even by contemporaries in his attitude to female sexuality , but he did express pervasive anxieties . |
| 24 | But he did reconsider next day , when he saw her watching the passage of the porter from the refectory before noon , and following him with her eyes as he turned in between infirmary and schoolroom , where the two small stony cells were built into the angle of the wall , close to the wicket that led through to the mill and the pond . |
| 25 | Two of them , Zouher Kabbara and his cousin Nadim Kabbara , had unfortunately been arrested in Rome about a month before Coleman arrived on Cyprus , but he did meet Sami Jafaar , a short , stocky , fast-talking Shiite drug runner with a hairy chest festooned with gold chains and medallions . |
| 26 | Fortunately the boy had not been too badly hurt but he did require minor surgery in addition to the treatment of several cuts and bruises . |
| 27 | General Mola was inferior in rank and had less prestige among the military , but he did have two factors in his favour : he was the director of the conspiracy and he was in command of all the rebel troops in the northern half of the country , thus " mirroring " Franco 's command in the south . |
| 28 | But he did have fancy thoughts sometimes , nor were they always wrong . |
| 29 | Robert Leeson ( 22nd January ) may be right in suggesting that Just William might not have wanted to be a Tory minister , but he did have parliamentary ambitions . |
| 30 | Levi 's statement to Philip Roth about If not now , when ? did not mention Babel , but it did mention another Isaac — the Yiddish writer , Bashevis Singer . |