Example sentences of "but [pers pn] did [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did write one thing at school , the school pantomime , which nobody wanted to be in anyway . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But she did make one request . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But she did know one thing . |
| 6 | Still waiting for a lot of the reports to come in , but we did have one winner on Guess the Scores this afternoon . |
| 7 | 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 . |