Example sentences of "but [noun] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | London slid past but Melanie did not look at it . |
| 2 | Francie paused in rolling his cigarette and frowned as if his brother had said too much ; but Melanie did not notice . |
| 3 | He smiled as he said it , but Lisa did not smile back . |
| 4 | Their hands lay laced together on the chair arm , but Lisa did not look at him as he put to her , ‘ Of course you have to think of Emily , but surely there must be a couple of men out there who are capable of being a good father to your daughter ? ’ |
| 5 | Karen waved until her arm ached , but Jessica did not see . |
| 6 | It was bulky and badly tied up with paper and string but Sarah did n't need to feel it to know what it was . |
| 7 | Mm I think I but Sarah did it at work , she did it sort of plaited it from here round |
| 8 | But Raoul did not listen . |
| 9 | Schellenberg left for Berlin by plane this morning , but Devlin did n't go with him . ’ |
| 10 | But Roddick did not immediately turn her trading experience into entrepreneurial endeavour when she grew up . |
| 11 | That did n't happen , but Hirst did set up one of the great matches of the season — and he would have won it but for a superb Peter Schmeichel save at 3-2 . |
| 12 | He said it was something to do with digging for roots , but William did n't know about that , he just liked graveyards . |
| 13 | ‘ I was never given the details , but Mum did remark that you had n't had an easy time . ’ |
| 14 | But Mum did n't lift a finger to help and gave as good as she got . |
| 15 | And Mother might have displayed a surprisingly anxious side to her nature , but Roman did n't have to humour her mother 's unnecessary fussing ! |
| 16 | Dana darted after him but Roman did n't appear to notice her , or to hear her calling him , and she could only watch as he drove away . |
| 17 | She could have been anywhere between twenty-five and forty , but Jezrael did n't care that her boss was n't wearing plastiface or that her hazel eyes looked like they might brim with mirth . |
| 18 | But Ward did n't answer . |
| 19 | But Ward did n't move and I was still several yards away when the two of them met . |
| 20 | Anna Essinger tried to keep discipline by appointing group leaders , but responsibility did not rest easily on youngsters who were preoccupied by their own future , or apparent lack of it . |
| 21 | Intravenous infusion of phenylephrine produced a sustained increase in blood pressure , but phenylephrine did not affect either basal gall bladder pressure or the response to CCK-8 ( Table I ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't think our destination mattered as long as it was private , ’ Luke countered smoothly as he switched on the light , but Maria did n't believe him . |
| 23 | The tower stairs were lit only by narrow window slits cut into the ten-foot-thick walls at irregular intervals , but Isabel did n't hesitate . |
| 24 | Many members of the Admiralty were furious with their First Lord when the temporary appointment was ratified on November 28 , but Churchill did not give a fig . |
| 25 | But Will did n't live to find that out . |
| 26 | Both heads nodded , but Chico did all the talking . |
| 27 | Now Botswana could not cut itself off from South Africa during the long years of apartheid but Botswana did make clear that it opposed apartheid and voiced this very strongly and much to the annoyance often of the South African government . |
| 28 | But Truman did not hesitate to intervene in the next crisis in the Far East , when North Korean troops invaded the South Korean Republic on 25 June 1950 ( CORE , pp. 150–51 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Headquarters in Dublin has OK 'd it , ’ Hardy had assured him , but Denis did not believe that , either . |
| 30 | That Sri Lankans were involved in much litigation and that the judicial system was based on alien principles can not be denied , but contemporaries did not successfully explain the link between these two facts . |