Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She did not do much for the female stereotype , but she did do away with the idea that you can not have a woman as boss . |
| 3 | It was primarily an amateur place , but they did do three professional productions a year , mostly of plays on the school curriculum like The Royal Hunt of the Sun . |
| 4 | The orderlies did n't do a lot of work but they did do a lot of talking , and their general cheerfulness had a lifting effect on the corridor as a whole . |
| 5 | But he did do three fabulous nights in Philadelphia and Boston again . |
| 6 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |