Example sentences of "but [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gwendoline watched eagerly to see what would happen when Mary-Lou opened hers but nothing did happen . |
| 2 | But I did meet him down there . |
| 3 | But I did discover where they had been coming in — through the stable and into the wall — and where they had resided when I pulled down the ceiling lathes in the dairy and a load of old nests and rat droppings fell on to my head . |
| 4 | I could hardly refuse , but I did refuse to take any payment , although I really needed the money . |
| 5 | I hate hurting you , I hate it more than anything else in the world , but I did hurt you , and I 'd sooner die than do it again . ’ |
| 6 | But I did wake up once in the night . |
| 7 | ‘ No , sir , but I did check my invoices afterwards . |
| 8 | Those horses , all right , I 'm not denying they 're in bad condition , but I did choose 'em . |
| 9 | ‘ But I did love him . |
| 10 | I did n't envy them their individual futures , which seemed dull or trivial to me , but I did envy the fact they had futures at all , whereas I had none , or , at least , not one to which I could look forward with any confidence . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was still early so I did n't expect many customers , but I did expect more than one — me . |
| 13 | ‘ I TOLD you so ’ is the least edifying of attitudes between friends , but I did harangue the House of Commons for 55 minutes on 19 December on the ecological consequences of what was then known as the ‘ military option ’ . |
| 14 | I neither looked like John Wayne , nor sounded like him , but I did feel like him . |
| 15 | I felt no great surge of power , energy , nor even warmth , but I did feel soothed , relaxed but above all moved . |
| 16 | But I did feel out of touch and missed what was often a superficial but nevertheless very sustaining daily relationship . ’ |
| 17 | I had come to dread that word — not that I was n't all in favour of efficiency generally but I did feel that there were times when other criteria applied . |
| 18 | But I did feel I 'd like to know a bit more about him . |
| 19 | But I did feel something . |
| 20 | But I did feel cold and I tired easily . |
| 21 | I would n't say it was a particularly woman-centred experience but I did feel confident in the skills of the midwives and the doctors and knew that there were all the necessary facilities should anything go wrong . |
| 22 | I did n't much like it , mice and such like have always given me the creeps , but I did feel sorry for it being shut up . |
| 23 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 24 | ‘ But I did feel a bit funny afterwards because it was so early and I did n't remember seeing the man around the house before . |
| 25 | But I did feel that perhaps they could have bent the rules a little . |
| 26 | But I did feel sorry for the man who was trying to get out cos he must have been in there for ages . |
| 27 | but I did feel , certainly |
| 28 | It was the year before war broke out in 1939 and a small sum was paid for a quarter 's lessons , thirteen in all , I think , but I did miss one or two . |
| 29 | But I did miss her . |
| 30 | I got support from my sister , but I did miss them . |