Example sentences of "but [pron] do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that everyone knew that clubs were involved in too many matches but no-one did much about rectifying the situation . |
| 2 | Erm no , he does help me a few things but I do all the digging for him because he ca n't bend down too much . |
| 3 | Oh he does , he gives er his secretary and switch board girl a box of chocolates and a bottle of wine and but I do all the Christmas cards |
| 4 | I mentioned erm benefits of er of exempt income and I showed er a feature with this and I apologize that the fact that 's it 's TESSA but I do this with TESSA because it 's the one way that you can illustrate the point I want to make . |
| 5 | Yeah , but I do any way . |
| 6 | I ca n't speak for the others , but I do some of it each hour . |
| 7 | The two young girls , I predicted , would not find such changes so difficult to accommodate , but I did all I could to see that Mrs Clements suffered the least adjustments , to the extent that I undertook for myself a number of duties which you may consider most broad-minded of a butler to do . |
| 8 | But I did all the work of a Queen and I needed friends too . |
| 9 | But I did that on marathon training . |
| 10 | Yeah well I I said to Geoff I thought about it , but I did that come to me quite quickly but Geoff could n't think of it could you Geoff ? |
| 11 | I was never very good with my hands , but I did this with my school friend John McClenahan , who was much better and whose father had a workshop in their house . |
| 12 | ‘ There were only about 15 varieties available then , but I did some research and came across an American monograph written before the Second World War that listed 250 . |
| 13 | ‘ I had a bit of a headache on Wednesday , but I did some running yesterday and training today and I 'm in great shape again . ’ |
| 14 | No , but you do that for the reason |
| 15 | ‘ If you was anyone else , I 'd say , get divorced , but you did that once and then you went and got married again . |
| 16 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 17 | ‘ She 'd give you a hand with anything that needed doing , from packing , invoicing , cutting and laying to choosing and mixing colours ; she was n't keen on the administration side but she did that too , ’ Meirion recalled . |
| 18 | ‘ But she did most of the important stuff on that . ’ |
| 19 | But who does that benefit apart from the fact they 're getting a salary at the end of the day ? |
| 20 | But we do that five percent does make an awful lot of difference . |
| 21 | But we do this pre-processing . |
| 22 | Well done , you had a technical hitch in the middle , but we did that , we got there oh now then , do you remember this one ? |
| 23 | So it was n't quite a fairy-tale ending , but we did all live more or less happily ever after . |
| 24 | ‘ Foolish of her perhaps , but one does these things in the grip of passion . |
| 25 | No erm but I 'm sorry but whoever did that needs a fucking good kick in the head you know . |
| 26 | But they do that , they reckon it wo n't take long . |
| 27 | But they do less than justice to this remarkable donkey . |
| 28 | In concurrent legislation the Länder must agree , but they do this via the Bundesrat , the forty-member Council of Länder Ministers . |
| 29 | D. Each year the farmers plough only a few of their fields , but they do this in a slow rotation , leaving the sown grass for several years , as a long ley . |
| 30 | But they do this within the limits of the novel of entertainment . |