Example sentences of "but [adv] did [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His standing at the dispatch box stays high , but rarely did he intervene during months of Maastricht debate . |
| 2 | But how did it look to the light beams ? |
| 3 | " But how did you come to be here ? " |
| 4 | ‘ But how did you know about me ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But how did you know about the snake , Holmes ? ’ |
| 6 | I 'm not saying whether it 's right or wrong , but how did you get to it ? |
| 7 | ‘ But how did you get to be chairman ? |
| 8 | But how did he feel about his debut in intellectual circles . |
| 9 | ‘ But how did he get from the flat to the church ? ’ |
| 10 | Conservation was all right but when did it lapse into deterioration ? |
| 11 | But why did they go for absolute egalitarianism in the first place then ? |
| 12 | For centuries the lane served no doubt as a cattle-road , but why did it come into existence at all , and when ? |
| 13 | Singularity , like , later , monogamy , was a difficult thing , a strain , almost an oddity : perhaps that was its appeal for him , but why did it have to be so ? |
| 14 | But why did he stand in the cold , on wet ground , for five or ten minutes ? |
| 15 | ‘ But why did you sneak into the corridors to talk to me ? ’ asked Endill . |