Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kind of looked at me quizzically and he had either not heard it or it had n't made any impact on him … and he basically just kind of waved it off . ’ |
| 2 | Although it had n't rained for a week , the path was slippery with mud , deadening sound . |
| 3 | He remembered falling , and the deck coming up to hit him , which brought back the sensation — although it had n't done so at the time — of the moment just before the torpedo hit Lanark . |
| 4 | An all-too-nearly-public scandal caused , that time , by Agnes 's service had prompted the PM to appoint an Army officer to Number 10 , although it had n't prompted him to decide exactly what Maxim should do once there . |
| 5 | ‘ He drank from the moment he got up and continued throughout the day , although it did n't show . |
| 6 | Last year he stayed home , although it did n't stop him from travelling to Ireland with Mick Fowler . |
| 7 | And the fire actually started beyond the North Wall , just by the North Gate , but the wind was blowing from the North , and it blew it down , and although it did n't burn the rather better stone houses , facing onto St Aldate 's , erm behind I think a lot of the poorer houses did suffer , and St Ebbe 's parish , next door , suffered a great deal , and because it was war , I think they just , the city council , city records lament that there how hard it is for people , and there 's no money to help them . |
| 8 | Around the same time , I entered this competition — it was a kind of beauty competition , although it did n't describe itself in that way . |
| 9 | That much was real estate , available to anyone with the right money , although it did n't help to discover that Alison and her late husband , a philosophy don at Balliol , had bought it back in the early sixties for less than £2,000 . |
| 10 | Until Pininfarina revealed his masterpiece , Ferrari was sticking resolutely with front-engined cars of which the most interesting was the 275GTB/GTS , although it did n't feature the most exciting shape . |
| 11 | Although it did n't sell very well at the time it is significant because it was the first to be published in English using the naming system which we use today . ’ |
| 12 | Pity that it had n't extended to something better than this undersized diesel-driven power supply . |
| 13 | Hewlett told Electronic News that it had n't seen any fall-off of interest in the HP9000 Series 1200 machines it buys OEM from Sequoia , but if it did , it could ‘ take over what it needed , whether that 's technology rights or manufacturing rights or whatever . ’ |
| 14 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 15 | The waiter brought the champagne and thumped it around in a bucket of ice to persuade us that it had n't come out of the refrigerator . |
| 16 | To be fair , Same-Lamborghini UK did say that it had n't had any complaints about lifting capacity here . |
| 17 | It admits that it had n't expected to be in this line of work so long , having thought Unix 's compatibility issues would have been resolved years ago . |
| 18 | Now he told me , that night we got so drunk , that it was because of you that it had n't happened . |
| 19 | And then , six weeks after the funeral , he had suddenly found himself able to believe that it had n't happened , not in that way , and that the whole horror was a childhood fantasy . |
| 20 | There was a long pause and then , somewhat reluctantly , Cassie said : ‘ I did n't realize that it had n't happened yet . |
| 21 | And that it did n't feel it when she was sort of combing it , but now I 'm actually doing that I can feel it short . |
| 22 | Vic tried to argue that it did n't make any difference how many toilets you had , it was the number of times you flushed them that mattered , but his father was convinced that having so many toilets was an incitement to unnecessary peeing , therefore to excessive flushing . |
| 23 | In fact I 'm told we ran the three-day week so well that it did n't make enough impact on the country ; they did n't realize the crisis and thought they would n't support Ted Heath . |
| 24 | People realized it could n't when , in nineteen sixty four , a biologist by the name of Wyn Edwards at the University of Edinburgh actually bothered to publish a book arguing the theory , and when Wyn Edwards argued the case , almost immediately most people began to realize that it , that it did n't make sense and that most of the evidence that he thought supported the theory does n't in fact do so , and today Wyn Edwards has himself refused it , even he now er admits that group selection er can not work . |
| 25 | Even now that she had been made a director of the firm , Laura was well aware that it did n't mean that she had a job for life . |
| 26 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 27 | The process did n't perturb him for the simple reason that it did n't repel Willie . |
| 28 | Suddenly she was surprised that she could talk about Ian White without regret ; surprised to find that it did n't hurt any more . |
| 29 | I knew nothing about the realities of proper soldiering , and to counterbalance the tedium and boredom of my small-time life , I surrounded the idea of the French Foreign Legion with a cocoon of glamour that it did n't possess . |
| 30 | Exports increased to 69% this time from 64% of total sales last , but Curtis said that it did n't benefit much from the movements in exchange rates . |