Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an absolute brute but eventually I did manage to dig it all out . |
| 2 | But anyway I did have to do some of them . |
| 3 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 4 | Now , I 'm glad you mentioned the award , because I know you did n't do this to do an award , but nevertheless you did get an award . |
| 5 | Mind you , there was a lot of us , but still we did have to work long hours . |
| 6 | But verily he did return , smiling , if a trifle shagged out , saying , ‘ That 's done . ’ |
| 7 | But maybe he did see Rosa run heavily for the door of her home ; maybe he was one of the men in the cafe who knew , who corroborated Tommaso 's insult later with their laughter , and made it impossible for Davide to ignore it and fail to issue his challenge . |
| 8 | But fortunately I did write down |
| 9 | But then he did see him , on the road to the village one day . |
| 10 | But unfortunately I did remember afterwards , having erm berated myself for this that he is actually based in London at the |
| 11 | This time even the much vaunted exit polls , which ask not how people intend to vote but how they did vote , got it wrong . |
| 12 | I had not had the benefit of that lovely electricity for long , but how I did miss it when it absented itself . |
| 13 | It 's a cliché to say that the judge had a difficult task but indeed he did have an unenviable job . |
| 14 | Moving on to Mr Curtis , I do n't want to dwell and re re er restate the the difference I had with Mr Curtis this morning , but again he did start a little bit of a red herring running by talking about the major commitment for retailing facilities , er there is a major commitment for retailing facilities in Greater York , er a degree of all provision . |
| 15 | But occasionally he did speak to us , telling more funny stories , offering encouragement and giving me advice and demonstrations on how to improve my golf stroke . |