Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] it did " in BNC.

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1 His submission was that where the words of a statute were ambiguous or obscure or were capable of giving rise to an absurd conclusion it should be legitimate to look at the Parliamentary history , including the debates in Parliament , for the purpose of identifying the intention of Parliament in using the words it did use .
2 As Mrs Robson said , people had taken to war like they did to life : they had accepted it and were living with it and with all the things it did to them ; but why did them up top have to go and stop the flower trains coming from Cornwall ?
3 By 1980 , the memory research community was reasonably sure about the things it did n't believe in .
4 Now one of the things it did n't do , was it did n't pick any of your grammatical errors out .
5 It was bloody embarrassing at first and all , I can tell you , as these two girls sat there right in front of my nose , but the girls it did n't phase out at all . ’
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