Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I wanted to do some scuba ! ’ he said in outrage . |
| 2 | I remember once I got on to Norton because there was this I wanted to get to but I did do some shepherding there , and that was another fun , carrying , and that 's a winter job , carrying the sheep hurdling , hurdles and stakes , I worked with a gypsy , a Romany gypsy , and he could n't speak very much , and tended to sing , as if something not quite right about him . |
| 3 | The house was big and old , with a lot more corridors and rooms and unexpected turns than seemed necessary , but she had done enough of these ‘ entertainments ’ to be familiar with the lower storeys . |
| 4 | but we had to do that with her having a sore throat . |
| 5 | Now , I 'm , I might have been remiss on this , but we had to do this in a hurry , erm , to get names in , and , but it 's been suggested by erm , the leader of the er , Conservative group on , on this Committee , that erm , a , a , member from each should , major group should go , and er , I 'm quite , I 'm quite inordinate , in favour of this , if we can get erm , bookings there now . |
| 6 | We could have looked after Bartholomew 's widow and his little son but we failed to do that . ’ |
| 7 | But they stopped doing that last year . ’ |
| 8 | But he 'd done this before and then suddenly , by a single comment , Willi would reveal that he had been playing a game all along . |
| 9 | But it had done that before . |