Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] did " in BNC.

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1 Either she was left with the excellent non-skiing kindergarten , which she enjoyed but where she did not learn to ski , something she very much wanted to do , or she had to be put into skischool .
2 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 .
3 But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity .
4 But he had a problem : the card she had so rapidly thrust into his hand was her business card , no home address , just Belmodes , Mouncy Street , which he knew but where he did not want to wait to visit .
5 We know they ill treated them , but so they did here .
6 It seemed improbable that the fine hot weather should continue right through the summer , but so it did for most of us .
7 The provinces were reluctant to accept the change from casements , but once they did , the whole look of England 's houses changed and the Georgian period of architecture became easily definable .
8 But it 's lasted about seven year , so you never can organ but once we did start I did enjoy the ones over here because over there when your kids were small you did n't go out much anyway but now that your kids are up you 've got it , and personally I enjoyed the ones that started but they do n't have Christmas dance , barn dances and things like this , they do n't org we have to have to organize like that ourself .
9 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 .
10 But although she did not deny it she knew nothing .
11 One of the officials with whom I had dealings was John Hampden , who years later was to become a colleague ; but although he did his best to be co-operative , it was the men who held the purse-strings that counted , and , going between the MOI and Faber 's , I could not extract from officialdom any commitment and Eliot naturally needed certain specific undertakings regarding finance before Faber 's could think of commissioning a book , which also needed the Ministry 's imprimatur .
12 No doubt it amused him , but although he did n't laugh outright he took this way of telling her she could forget it .
13 Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine .
14 I suppose we could fix them to read the same , but if we did that , ma'am , we would n't need two clocks , and it 'd be a shame to part with either of them ! ’
15 But if we did appear to be reasonably well … well then , what is there to concern ourselves about ?
16 But if we did meet it would have to be on my terms .
17 We still have doubts about the effects of GCSE — but if we did n't teach for it we would be handicapping unforgivably the pupils in our charge .
18 " But if we did things differently here there would n't be any need for resistance movements .
19 I do n't think it needs No I I do n't think it really needs one but if we did .
20 Which is totally the wrong , but if we did n't go there we would n't get it .
21 ‘ We do n't want to trouble this family for any longer , but if we did not follow up every ‘ not known at this address ’ , we would have a short poll tax register . ’
22 We toyed with the idea of having one on the twenty first of this month , but if we did , but now that we 've got someone interested in the house
23 But if we did a full turning count how would we do that ?
24 If we did it again , we wo n't do it again , but if we did , and you got the ringing , and you ignored it , you 've got about 9 seconds to ignore , it just goes away .
25 If they sent an ambulance she supposed she would get into it , but if they did not , then she would leave it because she did not have the energy to take herself to hospital .
26 It 's possible that some other minor eruptions occurred between 1681 and 1883 , but if they did , there is no record of them , and all of the reports and descriptions made by ships passing Krakatoa suggest that it was quite dormant .
27 As this village was inaccessible , the enemy patrols were unlikely to reach it undetected , but if they did the platoon headquarters was sufficiently mobile for the captain , sergeant , and their two runners/signalmen to withdraw quickly over the hill , taking their radio with them — a different proposition to moving a 109-set , for now the guerrillas had dry battery radios ( see Appendix No. 5 ) designed by Lieutenant Barcham , a New Zealander , for use by the Independent Companies .
28 If they did , they were assessable to Hong Kong profits tax but if they did not they escaped assessment .
29 Some might choose to describe these persons as " temporary workers " , but if they did they would have to recognise that they are also " voluntary " temporary workers .
30 If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East .
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