Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Well I should n't say this , I , I , I d I , I , I said it I have n't s really said it to Irene but I did say it to Con we went on the Friday did n't we ?
2 The joke was hardly likely to have them holding their ribs in Helsinki but it did reflect on the inordinate importance that gambling plays in the lives of Scottish footballers .
3 The pallium gave Hygeberht no jurisdiction in Saxon territories or in Kent but it did afford him metropolitan rights over all the Anglian peoples north of the Thames and south of the Humber , which may suggest that Offa was seeking not just an archbishop of the Mercians but a new ecclesiastical order for the Angles of midland and eastern England .
4 In summary , Mr Chairman , the overall mortality rate for disease , for T U R P , over the northern region was point three percent and this compares very well with the large published theories from America but we did find large inter-site variations for both mortality and major morbidity rates .
5 P.S. I do n't know anyone famous from Leeds but I did know Mervyn Day when he played for West Ham .
6 Mind , I can always claim to have had running water at Low Birk Hatt but it did happen to be a stream some way down the meadow .
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