Example sentences of "but [pos pn] [noun] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually perhaps there was a servant , but my mother did everything for us ii the house , made many of our clothes and mended them , prepared and gave us food , tended us when sick , comforted us when cold , disappointed , or sorrowful . |
| 2 | I dared not say any more , but my mother did n't mention Nour . |
| 3 | I said nothing , but my mother did n't seem to notice . |
| 4 | I 'd like to say I walked over to check it out ; I did n't run there , but my mind did . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't , but my house did . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But my grandfather did . |
| 7 | But my confidence did not remove all my fear , and I stayed hidden in the high grass until after midnight . |
| 8 | I tried to hit the nose but my arm did n't move . |
| 9 | My mother did but my father did n't very much . |
| 10 | And so it was for Wirral , for , as we shall see in Chapter 2 , the Index was collecting ‘ epidemic ’ data but its guardians did not recognise or communicate the fact . |
| 11 | It was considered rather more fashionable than Vauxhall Gardens , but its popularity did not last as long . |
| 12 | The radio was a useful political and social tool in a society of this kind , but its impact did not hit even Britain until the 1920s . |
| 13 | The original creative concept did n't depend on the use of computers , but its execution did . |
| 14 | It certainly camouflaged her ungainly figure , but its shade did not exactly enhance the heightened colour of her face which had obviously caught the sun on holiday . |
| 15 | Since they were safely extinct , nobody needed to have real nightmares about dinosaurs ; but their reconstructions did bring problems , and involved theory-loading . |
| 16 | There was a warm welcome from the people of Barbados , but their sympathy did not prevent them from preparing a pitch to suit the fast bowlers when the Test took place . |
| 17 | But their caring did n't extend to their maid who they regularly beat and bullied at their home in Lincoln . |
| 18 | Special training in social policy work has been given by NACAB 's Information Retrieval Group in several areas , and it was seen there that advice workers could be convinced of the benefit of social policy work but their budget did not allow further development of this programme . |
| 19 | He would like to have had Cropnose 's version , but their paths did n't cross , and there was no reason , meantime , why he should seek the King 's mother . |
| 20 | They failed to obtain any long-term understanding on future regional coal price differentials from the National Coal Board , but their discussions did seem to indicate that there would be advantages to shifting away from the high-cost coalfields of Kent , South Wales and Scotland , and towards the cheaper coal of the East Midlands and Yorkshire . |
| 21 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 22 | During the 1930s several alkaloids were prepared from the plant and investigated , but their properties did not correspond to the sedative and hypotensive properties of the crude drug . |
| 23 | There are some very important bits that we need to be making a a note of there , and many witnesses told lies against Jesus , but their stories did n't agree , they tried to find some evidence against him in order to put him to death Mark tells us , but they could n't find any . |
| 24 | But their injunctions did not simply denounce immorality . |
| 25 | The films had a sense of urgency that the rest of mainstream British cinema at the time largely lacked , but their directors did n't have enough personal contact with the lives of their characters to offer visions that rang true . |
| 26 | Fand and Liban came behind , but their spears did n't light the way , only set confusing reflections in the walls . |
| 27 | During the discussions of the draft Convention it was argued by some delegates that the Central Authority should have a double task , acting as a transmitting or forwarding agency as well as receiving requests from abroad , but their opinion did not prevail . |
| 28 | But their staring did n't matter because he did n't notice it . |
| 29 | But her heart did not rule her memory , as was the case with Martha and Nenna . |
| 30 | My mother got it wrong when I was six , but her mistake did serve to galvanise me in later years and I became a successful businesswoman , outwardly independent and self-sufficient . |