Example sentences of "but [conj] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further situation might arise , however , in which the defendant alleges belief in consent on the basis of the victim 's consent to penetration but where it did not occur to him that she might not understand the nature of the act , although the risk of this was quite obvious . |
| 2 | It seemed improbable that the fine hot weather should continue right through the summer , but so it did for most of us . |
| 3 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |
| 4 | The worse criticism , of course , is not that Carpenter 's Gothic was cheap nor that most of the styles chosen were imitative but that it did no good . |
| 5 | Preliminary observational studies of the self-instructional material provided for library orientation showed that the material provided was of help to new users , but that it did not , alone , supply adequate orientation information . |
| 6 | On the more difficult topic of the Pauline corpus I concluded that the evidence was equally compatible with a widely differing set of authors or a single unusually versatile author , but that it did not support the view that four epistles stood out as uniform by comparison with all others . |
| 7 | Suppose , however , that God decided that the universe should finish up in a state of high order but that it did n't matter what state it started in . |
| 8 | In the first phase he confirmed that when meat powder ( an unconditioned stimulus ) was placed on the dog 's tongue a natural reflex occurred and the dog salivated ( an unconditioned response ) , but that it did not salivate solely in response to a buzzer sounded for 30 seconds , a neutral stimulus . |
| 9 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 10 | No one had a drink before the food arrived , but once it did the wine flowed freely : the best lambrusco , the best fortana and finally the moscato , a sweet , white , generally fizzy wine made with selected muscatel grapes . |
| 11 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
| 12 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 13 | Hewlett told Electronic News that it had n't seen any fall-off of interest in the HP9000 Series 1200 machines it buys OEM from Sequoia , but if it did , it could ‘ take over what it needed , whether that 's technology rights or manufacturing rights or whatever . ’ |
| 14 | But if it did n't and they were n't forthcoming , then erm |
| 15 | ‘ But if it did happen , there are certain things I would demand … ’ |
| 16 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 17 | and you 'd fit them together but if it did n't fit you 'd have to do something to you 'd have to get them from som , from somewhere else . |
| 18 | But since it did , since it changed your life and the lives of at least four other people , all you can do now is go on paying forever — one way or another — for the consequences . |
| 19 | But since it did n't happen on their home ground they will be requesting witnesses from where it did happen . |
| 20 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 21 | It took a moment for the truth to sink in , but when it did Herr Nordern jumped . |
| 22 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 23 | But when it did not come , she turned about and saw the child with her head bowed and the tears running down her cheeks . |
| 24 | Output only declined during part of the period , but when it did the geographical pattern was the same as for employment . |
| 25 | It did n't happen often , but when it did , we tried to put it from our minds — to remember only what we were trying to do for our country . " |
| 26 | But when it did belong to her , she would be old too , like Aunt Alicia . |
| 27 | Since she had been drifting luxuriously into sleep , it took a second for the voice to register , but when it did , it acted like a bucket of ice-cold water flung over her sun-warmed limbs , and she jack-knifed upright , her eyes wide with shock . |