Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face was chalk-white and wore a dazed expression , and the uniform he was wearing was crumpled and torn but thankfully he did n't appear to be badly injured . |
| 2 | But mostly he did not need to talk at a bunfight , people came up and talked to him , and he would nod his head and smile benevolently and say happily , Yes , Yes , Yes . |
| 3 | But eventually she did . |
| 4 | It was an absolute brute but eventually I did manage to dig it all out . |
| 5 | But perhaps I did n't make myself clear . |
| 6 | She 'd thought Nevil fancied her , but perhaps he did n't ! |
| 7 | But perhaps he did . |
| 8 | But perhaps she did n't have to miss it after all . |
| 9 | But perhaps someone did — does — fancy Mme Wyatt . |
| 10 | and er , but apparently they did a , they did a test and that was also a package where the stuff like that , transfer although those three may of been carrying weapons , they split open the policeman , but this does seem to basically at , well not no , not indiscriminately they did n't say that but they shot innocent people , I mean like I said well the I mean that 's got to kill in those streets and stuff the ricochet 's can go quite easily go through somebody but there , there was , there 's always been claims er , there 's no I R A gunmen there |
| 11 | I tackled the manager , standing warmly in the foyer , as to why he wanted people to die of hypothermia in his precincts , but apparently he did n't make the rules . |
| 12 | There was an atmosphere that was almost crackling in this room and she was sure that Jules would notice , but apparently he did not . |
| 13 | If I say to you behaviourism is about di dum di dum and I did but obviously it did n't sink in at the time . |
| 14 | Damn it all , woman , I would have thought that talk you had in the car park with your two ‘ friends ’ would have knocked some sense into your stubborn little head , but obviously it did n't ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I did knock , several times , but obviously you did n't hear me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We thought she was going to visit her former boyfriend , but obviously she did not . |
| 17 | She wanted to ask him if he liked being alone with her , as he was now , on the quiet seashore on a nice day , but naturally she did not . |
| 18 | And she knew that she was n't helping matters by playing the coquette with André , but suddenly she did n't care . |
| 19 | I mean , we were exactly where we said we were gon na be , but suddenly I did n't realise that he was boss . |
| 20 | She ran the massager up the inside of Sally 's thigh again but suddenly it did not hurt any more . |
| 21 | Okay erm this is just I think this is er what we call coincidence or just er unplanned or unpredicted er event or happening one maybe one evening maybe I thought it was Friday evening , one Friday evening December er Mrs was watching television it was erm but normally she did n't watch television at that time , but just coincidence ? |
| 22 | But anyway I did have to do some of them . |
| 23 | alright just shut up a minute , I 'm talking to ya , so she said afterwards oh I says that was good were n't it could n't even switch the machine on and she said it does n't matter does it , she said it 's not what happens its the way you deal with it , and I made a joke of it and I said to him oh this is good i n't it ? relax you 're in safe hands I ca n't even switch the machine on , but anyway I did it in the end and he was alright , and he said thank you very much , that was , you were very good , you were very kind , cos it is frightening and one thing I said to him do n't hold your breath , because people think when their having an E C G they 've got ta hold their breath for some reason , just lie there take a deep breath and do n't breathe again but you 've never had one so you would n't no , I 'm just going to mix this up |
| 24 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 25 | Now , I 'm glad you mentioned the award , because I know you did n't do this to do an award , but nevertheless you did get an award . |
| 26 | Mr Slipper was still smiling but somehow he did not look very happy . |
| 27 | But somehow it did n't seem worth it . ’ |
| 28 | It was a rough job , but somehow it did n't look that different with the skin stretched over straw instead of ribs . |
| 29 | Some of the more irresponsible youths had tried to set fire to the building but somehow it did not catch and went out much to their disappointment ! |
| 30 | It was exciting , it was beautiful , but somehow it did n't seem to be all there . |