Example sentences of "but they did [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they did not do much more than that . |
| 2 | The Franks were not savages , but they did not settle easily into the sophisticated urban life-style of the local Gallo-Roman population . |
| 3 | Not only did they lack skills but they did not adapt readily from the rhythm of agricultural life with its long periods of inactivity and frequent holidays , to the demands of modern industry . |
| 4 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 5 | But they did not give rise to new grouping systems within or between schools . |
| 6 | The speeches of Finbar O'Doherty and Eamonn Melaugh were more militant in tone but they did not demur from Hume 's denial of what had been the central purpose of the DHAC — the unity of the working class around a material grievance . |
| 7 | The children did not forget their father , but they did not talk about him much , because they knew that Mother was unhappy . |
| 8 | They could be invoked to illustrate an argument , but they did not present a practical problem of social and political relationship . |
| 9 | The superb frescoes , concealed from sight by Muslim prejudice for nearly five hundred years , were again on view , but they did not compensate for a profound sense of desecration . |
| 10 | The ultimate goal was to have the potential unlocked , but they did not think that AEA was ready for that . |
| 11 | But they did not presage the same collapse of democracy nor the rise of the BUF and the Communists as mass parties . |
| 12 | But they did not care . |
| 13 | The 29.5 per cent of the electorate who did vote Tory under the circumstances of February 1974 must have known what they were doing — contesting the ‘ unconstitutional claims of the disruptive sectional union interests ’ — but they did not form a sufficiently large social bloc . |
| 14 | They depended upon him for their pleasure , they admired him because he had a skill they did not , they liked him because he was charming and energetic , but they did not treat him as their equal . |
| 15 | It was checked against the prints of George Taylor , who had been early on the scene , but they did not match . |
| 16 | It did not seem to hit the kids hard but they did not show their feelings . |
| 17 | From part of this twelve gun barrels were forged and sent to Enfield , but they did not show the desired improvement . |
| 18 | But they did not stop there . |
| 19 | But they did not stop at the analysis of the system of meanings , they used this analysis as a basis for recovering ‘ hidden ’ meanings — for interpreting what they were studying . |
| 20 | Technologists might , but they did not set out to do so . |
| 21 | In the late 1960s the House of Commons experimented with some special committees modelled very loosely on the American pattern but they did not last long . |
| 22 | It was in this period that Fleischmann and he began to discuss projects , but they did not start working on any until Pons joined the University of Utah , moving to Salt Lake City in 1983 . |
| 23 | But they did not meet in Berlin . |
| 24 | We have heard two extensive speeches from the Opposition Front Bench , but they did not devote a single minute to answering that basic , common-sense question . |
| 25 | The students were partly to blame , it was implied , but they did not intend to cause his demise and would not forget Hu Yaobang . |
| 26 | Some scenes were shot in Cambridge , but they did not involve Crawford . |
| 27 | They may have done so , but they did not make it clear that they had . |
| 28 | But they did not want to offend the public ; and , most important , they had billed the march as a civil-rights story . |
| 29 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 30 | With regard to Italy , he had hopes of providing espiscopacy to the Waldensians , but they did not want it , and his dream of a non-papal Catholicism in northern Italy came to nothing . |