Example sentences of "but it did [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.

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1 This was quite a good bargain for the monks , but it did not silence all their criticisms .
2 The difficulty about regarding this as the whole story , however , is that the court does not seem to have been in doubt that the purpose of the additional charges was to prevent the release of the applicants , but it did not regard this as conclusive .
3 This may have been Nicholas 's opinion of himself , but it did not affect many of his actions .
4 But it did not get any better .
5 But it did not garner any reductions in repayments due .
6 But it did not take many weeks of the Lancashire cotton famine ( due to the interruption of raw material supplies by the American Civil War ) to reduce even such a family to charity .
7 But it did not provide enough segregated schools and enough women teachers to educate the girls separately from the boys in all cases , and it did not have the strength to insist that girls should be educated in mixed schools by male teachers : most Libyan parents would have objected strongly to laws compelling mixed education .
8 But it did n't last more than a year .
9 The success of the tour made it less difficult to tell herself that this was what she wanted , but it did n't stop those sudden down-swings when she was swept by a longing so total that it was like a haemorrhage of the soul .
10 But it did n't do any good , the next morning she was smoking in the bathroom .
11 Then we 've done our work , I would say that my average of ten company representatives went over , perhaps two would find it was useful , useful fact finding mission , but it did n't achieve much , two would click instantly and have orders while they 're there , and the remainder would over the period of six or nine months later , if they worked at it , gain orders or perhaps , perhaps more importantly agents or distributors to sell their products for them in that country .
12 The exhibition 's open to all , but it did n't take much to persuade Scotland Today 's Patsi MacKenzie to wander along for a preview .
13 M is for medicine which the doctor gave her , but it did n't help any .
14 But it did n't happen that way .
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