Example sentences of "but [adv] do [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not a pocket edition of Pelleas , a cut price version for touring , but rather does it reveal the passion and the pity in the music . |
| 2 | This is not a pocket edition of Pelleas , a cut-price version for touring , but rather does it reveal the passion and the pity in the music . |
| 3 | Most parents can identify the first phase of interaction with their child , that is they can see what the child is doing that is irritating and they see how they react , but rarely do they then follow through the interaction to see what happens at the end . |
| 4 | Cookery writers , like parrot fish , come in many hues ; in their shoal you can discover a miscellany of dietitians , bacteriologists , vegans , conservationists , ethnicists , internationalists , pure foodists , even ruralists , but rarely do you find thespians . |
| 5 | His standing at the dispatch box stays high , but rarely did he intervene during months of Maastricht debate . |
| 6 | But so did they : friends were for fun and solace . |
| 7 | ‘ He set off with them , but so did I. Now we 're both back . |
| 8 | She did get out of his car without a word when he stopped it outside her address — but so did he . |
| 9 | But so did you . ’ |
| 10 | But so did I , thought Willie . |
| 11 | Ah but so did I and I did nothing but write during that time but I 've never known and everything I 've said about that is true , has turned out to be true . |
| 12 | He simply says that it is due to the climatic conditions in Seoul at the time , adding ‘ Not only does Hong Kong start their season in late September , but so do we , the Koreans and Taiwan . |
| 13 | ‘ I have a part to play , but so do they , and we are all on the same team . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah , but so do they , and their official time is half past seven to half past eight in n it ? |
| 15 | We shall assume that you have come to work but not to do it all the time . |
| 16 | His immediate concern is to get them to help themselves but not to do it so successfully that the state will throw in its hand altogether . |
| 17 | Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults . |
| 18 | So I take my time , not asking if he wants Cellophane gift-wrapping but just doing it really slowly and then I say I done the VAT wrong . |
| 19 | ‘ We want to help people but without doing it like a charity . |
| 20 | But whereabouts do you hope to be at the end of twenty minutes , however long we 've got . |
| 21 | Well yes technically speaking I suppose it is burnt but well done I |
| 22 | ‘ I know it sounds absurd , but please do it for me or I might go out of my mind again , and really smash the living daylights out of him ! ’ |
| 23 | But then to do it well , so that it all sounds extremely natural — so that it flows and sounds effortless — that requires a long preparation , which everyone at La Scala was happy to give it . |
| 24 | But then do we . |
| 25 | ‘ But then do you know what this old devil says ? ’ |
| 26 | But then did you ever really see your own sister objectively ? |
| 27 | But how to do it ? |
| 28 | So Steve took on the singer 's mantle , but how does he think he 's shaping up as a guitarist/vocalist ? |
| 29 | But how does he shape up against his counterparts in other countries ? |
| 30 | ‘ Very well , but how does he contact you if you 're on the run ? ’ |