Example sentences of "but it do [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Previous page   Next page
No Sentence
31 But it did give considerable encouragement to the growth of services , particularly community services , and to the improvement of public understanding of the problems of mental disorder , and it was , accordingly , widely welcomed .
32 In addition , whether or not one had attended a catholic school may have had little effect on sexual values or mass attendance but it did increase catholic activism and racial tolerance ( Greeley , McCready , and McCourt 1976 ) .
33 But it did need permanent supervision of weapons , gunpowder , and equipment ; and this was provided by the emergence under Henry VIII of a centralized Ordnance Office .
34 Ascot 's Cesarewitch trial did n't provide many clues for Newmarket , but it did cause top jockeys Pat Eddery and Michael Roberts some anxious moments .
35 But it did take some time .
36 But it did cultivate good will . "
37 The revolution at Northampton may have been different but it did have uncanny echoes of what had gone on at Neath .
38 Moderator it ca n't be very often that a young minister contradicts a giant of the church in open assembly but it did happen several years ago .
  Previous page   Next page