Example sentences of "but did " in BNC.
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| 1 | A court notice reported the economic loss of the two vehicles , but did not mention any military casualties . |
| 2 | ‘ I know you do n't like homeless people being stereotyped as a bunch of alcoholics , ’ she began , ‘ but did you ever meet any of the real meths drinkers ? ’ |
| 3 | Too young and protected to go to festivals , she grew her hair long like John Lennon and loved John Lennon after Yoko because he too wore glasses but did n't care . |
| 4 | But did anyone else ? |
| 5 | ‘ For them to claim ’ would not have jarred the ear in the same way , she thought , but did not say . |
| 6 | But did such relationships really exist , Gillian wondered . |
| 7 | the wreckage but did not expect to find anyone else alive . |
| 8 | But did he like hats ? she decided to ask . |
| 9 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 10 | They knew the realist option but did not take it as a way out of a social impasse , because , I would argue , the phenomenalist tendency of thought is too strong . |
| 11 | She wanted to say screw the colonialist blood but did n't . |
| 12 | She enjoyed hearing about the governess 's letters which would never be received and translations of East End rhyming slang , but did n't think he actually listened to her , he often asked her the same questions . |
| 13 | The church warden gave me sizes but did not ask for reproduction pieces and anyway , he only had a poor and partial photograph . |
| 14 | Many humans are diabetics ( this writer included ! ) but did you know one in 200 dogs also live with this condition ? |
| 15 | Easthope believes that the modernist concept of ‘ impersonality ’ , later systematized in the New Criticism , and theorized by Wimsatt and Beardsley in their famous essay ‘ The Intentional Fallacy ’ , was on the right lines , but did not go far enough , as the author was not really banished . |
| 16 | Most Western ambassadors boycotted the firework display but did attend a reception on Saturday hosted by the Prime Minister , Li Peng . |
| 17 | Seven players — Carling , Oti , Hill , Moore , Mullins , Linnett and Teague — attended the session but did not train with the squad . |
| 18 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 19 | Significantly , it got a laugh but did n't shut the lady up . |
| 20 | Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’ |
| 21 | She had been rehearsing a new song on the way to the Ritz , but did n't know who wrote it . |
| 22 | Mr Berecz said he still considered himself a member of the old party and refused to recognise the new one — despite voting for its establishment — but did not rule out the possibility of seeking admission to it . |
| 23 | He possessed the true explorer 's curiosity but did not bring to his journeys his own creative touch . |
| 24 | He reiterated that Vietnamese boat people considered to be ‘ economic migrants ’ must be sent back to Vietnam , but did not say when . |
| 25 | Calls for the restoration of the death penalty were applauded loudly , but did not dominate the event as in past years . |
| 26 | Jagged bottles , hurled at her , in the dusk of an Istanbul night club , injured but did not kill her . |
| 27 | Les was a bit of a lay preacher , but did not push his views on anyone . |
| 28 | Those with a recent interest in politics , who found the election interesting but did not have a general interest in politics at other times , gave PEBs high ratings for usefulness on leaders , issues , and voting choice . |
| 29 | Both large and small versions of many sections coexisted , but did not communicate with one another , or even know of one another 's presence . |
| 30 | A 27-year-old party member and ex-Red Army man had read the press regularly since 1917 , but did not know the meaning of words such as ‘ class enemy ’ , occupation , period , or most abbreviations , including the USSR . |