Example sentences of "but do " in BNC.
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| 1 | But doth suffer a sea-change |
| 2 | I keep having hot flushes , know what I mean ? but d' you think they care ? they just follow me round saying ‘ Miss we 've dropped a stitch ’ . |
| 3 | " I do n't want to let you go , but d' you know , I feel so ridiculously happy . |
| 4 | . But d' you know I , I did n't fancy it . |
| 5 | Yeah , but d' you think they 'll be able to see it ? |
| 6 | But d' ya know something ? |
| 7 | You we , I 'm glad you said that cos , I 'm not sure if I told you this before but d' ya remember what these numbers here mean ? |
| 8 | Well nothing but d' ya know what I mean it 's sort of . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've known for 23 years what the potential problems were but done little to solve them , ’ says Hinners . |
| 10 | But done it up to two or three thousand pounds for an estate , knowing that it |
| 11 | That was a plot against Rachel she had never thought of , to take up maths again but to do it in the USA . |
| 12 | They want to appeal to people 's better nature , but to do that they ca n't point out what shmucks most of us are , most of the time . |
| 13 | And from that centre of chivalry , the Burgundian court , came the nobleman Jacques de Lalain in 1448 , to challenge James , brother of William earl of Douglas , ‘ neither for hatred nor envy nor any evil wish whatsoever , but to do the greatest honour in his power to one who came of such high descent , and was besides of such great renown and courage , that he desired his acquaintance more than that of any lord in the said kingdom of Scotland ’ . |
| 14 | ( 14 December 1774 ) Plans for the performance went well , but to do the work justice , the date of the first performance was delayed , |
| 15 | The first time , he asked the man to make love to him right there in the car , not to take him home yet but to do it to him there in the car . |
| 16 | These and many other factors are of great importance to practising physicians , but to do justice to them and to the controversies which they provoked is beyond the purpose of this book . |
| 17 | Mobility allowance , for example , could be extended to all older people who were eligible to claim it , but to do so requires an expression of political conviction that age discrimination is unjust . |
| 18 | But to do this would be double counting , since the value embodied in the arms production was actually produced in PP3 . |
| 19 | It may have been relatively easy for a large part of the workforce to switch from manufacturing to service industries in the 1980s , but to do the opposite is more difficult . |
| 20 | But to do this there must be viable , efficient and economic alternatives , either pleasant and safe facilities in which to walk or cycle , or reliable modes of public transport . |
| 21 | As a consequence of these practical deficiencies , the principle of strict traffic segregation has been replaced in most Western societies by a repertoire of policies developed not just to improve traffic safety , but to do so without detracting from the quality of life in residential districts . |
| 22 | But to do her justice , Liz had loved Gregory , would have followed transformed laughing face , heard her ruefully apologetic voice . |
| 23 | My own guess , in the latter case , is that sheer ecstasy came with the discovery that it was possible not only to walk out of a marriage , but to do so and flourish , and that the rest of her life was devoted to recapturing this outrageous , outcast joy . |
| 24 | ‘ Ours but to do or die , right ? |
| 25 | But to do that was in itself to make a decision . |
| 26 | ‘ You dream about scoring at Anfield — but to do it both ends and to silence the Kop is a fantastic feeling . ’ |
| 27 | To get out was a considerable achievement : to go on to etch his own personality on the world was so rare as to be wonderful : but to do it on his own terms , in his own way and to do exactly as he wanted was astounding . |
| 28 | Activists had the job of implicating West Indian proprietors in the public mind with the lack of progress since 1807 but to do it ‘ wisely and prudently ’ by seeking ‘ to second or to remove the impediments out of the way of the free operation of the Jaws which the Creator has fixed in the nature of things ’ . |
| 29 | But in just a few years computers have made many specialised tasks obsolete , enabling one person not only to do the work of many , but to do many different jobs at once . |
| 30 | In the event it has proved possible not only to complete the task , but to do so in a timely and controlled fashion . |