Example sentences of "but [pron] do give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you did give her quite a blow . |
| 2 | And so this woman , she did n't preach a sermon , but she does give her a testament , she goes back and she gets the folk in the village , and she says , come see someone , meet someone , let me introduce you to someone who has told me everything that I have ever done ! |
| 3 | He never married Tarita , his leading lady in Mutiny on the Bounty , but she did give him two children . |
| 4 | But she did give him a hefty shove and he nearly fell . |
| 5 | And they 've given you they 've actually given you , not in this one , but they do give you the clefs here . |
| 6 | But he does give them shelter if danger threatens . |
| 7 | Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city — |
| 8 | He does not give us simple explanations but he does give us useful ones . |
| 9 | But he did give me somebody to ring about caravans |
| 10 | This is a slow and imperfect process , but it does give them back most of their original caudal functions . |
| 11 | And I learn quite a lot myself but it does give me that little bit of a challenge that er I think is helpful in retirement . |
| 12 | Just to add to what 's been said erm there , there have been some points raised er along the lines I 've mentioned and as a result of that erm it is felt that erm notification to members who are not on the application sub-committee of applications which affect their ward area could be improved and that is er I hope to be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Application Sub-Committee , so that er matter i is something which is , which is being picked up and will be considered by that sub-committee but it does give me the opportunity to say that erm the definition of a complaint i is certainly not a precise one and I certainly would n't want members of this committee to feel that I was being complacent er as a result of there only being three complaints that we received . |
| 13 | I sha n't be telling you all about these men , but it does give you some idea , the way we were , the chorus , the bit players in this romance which is what I really want to tell you about . |
| 14 | ‘ Having a good body is not the best thing in the world , ’ Cindy told More ! magazine , ‘ but it does give you a lot more self-confidence . ’ |
| 15 | Brian Smart , executive director of the British Franchise Association , adds : ‘ Franchising is not a guarantee of success , but it does give you the option of joining a business whose worth has already been proved . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But it does give us a little more room for manoeuvre with Newley . ’ |
| 17 | But it does give us an opportunity to examine our institutions . |
| 18 | But it did give him unique access to the Shah . |
| 19 | But it did give him yet one more advantage in a situation already loaded against her . |
| 20 | 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 . |