Example sentences of "but it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levi 's statement to Philip Roth about If not now , when ? did not mention Babel , but it did mention another Isaac — the Yiddish writer , Bashevis Singer . |
| 2 | In addition , whether or not one had attended a catholic school may have had little effect on sexual values or mass attendance but it did increase catholic activism and racial tolerance ( Greeley , McCready , and McCourt 1976 ) . |
| 3 | But it did nothing for the glass . |
| 4 | But it did not bring an end to the speculation and confusion which was rending the civilized world . |
| 5 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 6 | But it did blunt the tool quite easily and sharpening was needed more often that I had thought likely , though this walnut was extremely hard . |
| 7 | But it did n't come out like that . |
| 8 | It was not , in fact , a bad educational programme , but it did not have the glamour of Cambridge English , where the idea of criticism was central , as instanced by the great success and influence of Richards 's Practical Criticism . |
| 9 | But it did summon up the delicious image of the straitlaced reporter gingerly dipping his toe , notebook in hand , into the showbiz underworld . |
| 10 | It might permit the slaughter , but it did not permit entry of Ministry of Agriculture officials , the nuns said . |
| 11 | But it did not follow that we could now relax , least of all in Britain . |
| 12 | But it did sell ‘ prime promotion space ’ — the shelves at the end of each island unit that faced customers as they entered the door , and allowed four or five copies to face outwards . |
| 13 | ENGLAND 'S second warm-up match for the Nehru Trophy may not have been the biggest event here yesterday ( of the 100 or so people who turned up , about a dozen were neither sponsors nor members of the Delhi constabulary ) , but it did , by happy chance , provide near-perfect practice for their opening group match against Sri Lanka tomorrow . |
| 14 | POWELL : But it did exist . |
| 15 | Thus he says of Ali , a member of Fatah , ‘ He knew I loved him , but it did n't make him the slightest bit arrogant . |
| 16 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 17 | He had given her no help throughout the night but it did not lessen her love . |
| 18 | This did not mean that ideas and values came from some supernatural source , but it did mean that they came from the history of society , not the history of the individual . |
| 19 | Breakfast was forgettable , but it did n't matter by then . |
| 20 | The wind blew and the snow fell , but it did n't matter . |
| 21 | But it did n't work . |
| 22 | I 'm sure this was a typing error but it did confuse an excellent article . |
| 23 | The press reflected the living culture of the people ; it could influence opinion and reinforce existing attitudes but it did not create new forms of entertainment and rarely attempted to alter the habits or loyalties of its readership . |
| 24 | I had to rinse quite often to get rid of debris , but it did give a close shave . |
| 25 | Her GP referred her to a hospital in Watford , North London , where she underwent laser treatment to try and prevent the damage from getting any worse — but it did n't help . |
| 26 | I know the name was McCloy but it did n't mean nothing to me . |
| 27 | Bridge lengths vary from three to four rigs on the Leine to an average ten rigs on the Weser and really , given the practised excellence of the crews , this last thirty-one-rig bridge of Exercise Neptune 's Gallop 1989 should not have aroused much emotion , but it did made the thirtieth of June a little bit different . |
| 28 | There was genetic inheritance , of course , and Paul was … well … crude , like all boys , but it did n't work the way Omi was suggesting , nothing like it . |
| 29 | The rest of the remark he left unsaid , but it did not need spelling out . |
| 30 | The 1927 Cinematograph Act imposed a distributors quota of 7.5 per cent , and an exhibitors quota of five per cent , both rising to 20 per cent , but it did nothing in itself to shift the economic balance in favour of British producers . |