Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity . |
| 2 | But it 's lasted about seven year , so you never can organ but once we did start I did enjoy the ones over here because over there when your kids were small you did n't go out much anyway but now that your kids are up you 've got it , and personally I enjoyed the ones that started but they do n't have Christmas dance , barn dances and things like this , they do n't org we have to have to organize like that ourself . |
| 3 | Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine . |
| 4 | But if we did appear to be reasonably well … well then , what is there to concern ourselves about ? |
| 5 | But if we did meet it would have to be on my terms . |
| 6 | Well it holding it in pawn , waiting for somebody to ask him to have a drink , and invariably somebody would but if they did ask him they 'd always ask him back next time you know if they could n't do it this time . |
| 7 | if , if I was really stuck and I had the , the tools , which , I would n't have you see , but if I did have the tools there , then yeah I would be able to do it cos I 've seen Martin doing it quite a few times , so |
| 8 | Chapman may have been seeking to ease the pressure on his players , but if he did entertain hopes of the Double , they were dashed when James injured a knee at Upton Park over Easter . |
| 9 | But if he did encounter that God , he thought , his dearest wish would be to spit in his face . |
| 10 | But if he did say it , then he 's a fucking liar . ’ |
| 11 | But if you did manage to get her back with her husband again , I 'm sure she 'd end up forever suspicious , bitter and soured . |
| 12 | ‘ But if you did know , you would n't stop me . |
| 13 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 14 | ‘ But if it did happen , there are certain things I would demand … ’ |
| 15 | Sudbury had the advantage of the wind in the first half , but when they did press forward failed to unsettled Cornard 's well-knitted defensive combination . |
| 16 | The crowd was a bit quiet but when everyone did sing it was awesome ! ! |
| 17 | Leeds battled fiercely with Whelan playing well up front , holding the ball and putting decent balls in the box a lot ( he came on for Rocky at half time ) but when we did get back in it it was Deano who was in the box and looking like scoring who got hauled down and the ref points to the spot . |
| 18 | But when it did belong to her , she would be old too , like Aunt Alicia . |
| 19 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 20 | But when I did find out I was profoundly relieved to know that all these troubling fantasies which had been playing twice nightly in my head were , in fact , shared by others . |
| 21 | But when he did appear a suffocating shame kept her rooted to the spot . |
| 22 | But when he did speak at last , his words were a chilling disappointment . |
| 23 | Erm he started his life er in Vietnam in the violence of Vietnam , and had therefore a lot of violence in his early life , which I think really stayed with him , but when he did join the Army , he was very proud to be doing so , and very proud to be wanting to be part of Britain and serving Britain in whatever way he could . |
| 24 | But when he did say yes I 'll have that one and so on and that |
| 25 | My father did n't know that because he was hardly ever around but when he did put in an appearance , the aunt behaved differently . ’ |
| 26 | She had difficulty finding her house key in her pocket , but when she did manage to open the door , she ran into the house and up the stairs screaming wildly for her own mother . |
| 27 | But when she did find the street , it seemed curiously familiar . |
| 28 | But when she did come back , with her own children , the railway line had been closed . |
| 29 | She owed me £1500 but when she did have money , I did n't see any of it . |