Example sentences of "it did [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably he intended it to fire up his own team , but predictably it did just that to the opposition . |
| 2 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 3 | Even as she observed this , it did just that , slithered off the nail which supported it and plunged headfirst into the deep blue of the mantelpiece . |
| 4 | ‘ Although , looking back , the recession was not perhaps as bad as it might have been , it did nevertheless cause some strains between booksellers and publishers , ’ the new president of the Publishers Association , Sir Roger Elliott of OUP , acknowledged . |
| 5 | After a year in which the Treasury 's forecasting failures ( notably that very large trade deficit ) have been rather obvious , it is only fair to recall that it did presciently point out just about every awkward little detail of the poll tax , from its automatic upward impact on inflation to the folly of providing local authorities with a golden opportunity to raise more tax while blaming the Government . |
| 6 | If it did neither , then a legitimacy crisis would occur . |
| 7 | ‘ It did rather trash the town . |
| 8 | While the NCF was , of course , sensitive to this point , it did rather undermine its initial political strategy . |
| 9 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 10 | He was a quiet man , not much given to open or abandoned laughter , mainly because he thought laughing made him look like a horse — which it did rather ! |
| 11 | Cherishing port as a special occasion drink was certainly flattering , but it did rather inhibit sales . |
| 12 | It did rather stretch |
| 13 | It did both did n't it ? |
| 14 | it did both did n't it , it went sinked to the bottom and it floated , but can you write the shell in both ? |
| 15 | Although the Labour Party was fragmented in its approach to foreign affairs , and slow to respond to events in Europe , it did strongly oppose Fascism and appeasement even before the 1937 Bournemouth Conference . |
| 16 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 17 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 18 | what she was getting at , she knew exactly what she was shopping for , she went into that shop , there was the list , it was handed in , I bet it took her less time to shop then , than it did later when she went shopping with a vague idea well I must n't forget this , I must n't forget that , but then the wandering around sort of oh that looks nice and I fancy that |
| 19 | Mr Mulloy says that Lady Jane Grey is now paying more attention to the three Rs than it did previously . |
| 20 | Having said that , as Mr 's pointed out , in fact the new manual if anything er emphasizes the benefits more than it did previously because as you said , previously it required a fifty percent reduction in traffic to register a one decibel change in noise levels which was s perceived to be significant . |
| 21 | The ‘ new technology ’ — a term used to describe the computerization of the printing industry using word processors and computer-designed pages as well as the direct input of copy by the journalist into the computer ( Fig. 4.4 ) — would gravely affect employment in the industry as it did away with compositors and printers . |
| 22 | It did however eventually become as strong over the next 9 months , especially after the family moved to Birmingham too . |
| 23 | It did however have a Part III home for elderly mentally infirm clients and a day centre operated by a voluntary organisation ; there was also a growing private residential sector . |
| 24 | It did however reflect a sense of Britain 's central role in a world-wide economy and permitted individuals to believe they could contribute to a good cause without relying upon government or becoming enmeshed in politics . |
| 25 | It did however have commitment and Goodwin 's fund-raising abilities . |
| 26 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
| 27 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
| 28 | When it reached about 3ft I pinched out the top to make it branch , which it did most satisfactorily . |
| 29 | ‘ Because it did exactly the same thing to me . ’ |
| 30 | This mattered little while Antarctica remained virtually empty , as it did up to the end of World War II , but became important in post-war years when scientists and technicians of many nations began to work there . |