Example sentences of "but he did [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Toubon was one of the few Right-Wing politicians not to criticise the pyjama-striped columns of Daniel Buren erected in the Palais Royal by Mr Lang — but he did tell the artist they were not his favourite work . |
| 2 | But he did tell you to move ? |
| 3 | But he did recognize that there was strong pro-social currents in the , in the ego , and the resulting view , I think , is what I would call a realistic view of human nature . |
| 4 | But he did leave for London , like so many others in love with where they came from , in need of where they went . |
| 5 | But he did care . |
| 6 | He did not make money , but he did make his name by persuading a great many people to visit the Exhibition with Cooks . |
| 7 | But he did want her to know and to remember . |
| 8 | Jarvis did n't much want to do any of these things , but he did want to go up north and admire the old Glasgow PIE , not to mention going back to ride once more San Francisco 's BART , which tunnels deeply through the rock under the Bay . |
| 9 | But he did want to be asked . |
| 10 | But he did manage to pick the phone up and call an ambulance . ’ |
| 11 | Reg Seekings felt that they were being treated like condemned men going to the gallows , but he did manage to buy a tin of Craven A cigarettes . |
| 12 | But he did refer to a spectator and an alleged verbal and physical abuse on Dooley and himself . |
| 13 | Call it squeamishness , but he did disapprove . |
| 14 | But he did do three fabulous nights in Philadelphia and Boston again . |
| 15 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 16 | But he did advertise his book saying that caves were an exception to the general difficulties , so he can hardly object if that is how his book is judged . |
| 17 | But he did give me somebody to ring about caravans |
| 18 | But he did eat it , and I thought he would . |
| 19 | Of course I liked him — you ca n't not like Oliver once you get to know him — but he did tend to monopolise things . |
| 20 | But he did hurt me did n't he ? |
| 21 | But he did answer , almost at once . |
| 22 | Mysteriously , he refused to say why — but he did confirm his action . |
| 23 | But he did confirm that he was ‘ 95 per cent ’ of the way to reaching final agreement with an unnamed challenger . |
| 24 | Oh , he said , but he did go off and fetch him . |
| 25 | He did not go to the Grammar School , as has been stated elsewhere ; but he did go to Dr. Henry Clarke 's mathematical school in Salford , answering four mathematical questions in 1775 , and three the following year . |
| 26 | But he did go to church , so perhaps she was right . |
| 27 | At an April 18 press conference in London , Hamdi declined to describe the crisis as a " famine " — a point of contention with donor countries — but he did go further than previous official statements in referring to the need for emergency aid and saying that the UN World Food Programme had a free mandate to organize the operation . |
| 28 | But he did go up to my mother and say , like , you know . |
| 29 | Yeah but he did go out with a girl there for a while did n't he ? |
| 30 | but he did go to sleep about then |