Example sentences of "of [noun] it did [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some Tory Euro-sceptics like Teddy Taylor now see such a deal as the harbinger of a two-tier Europe in which Britain would be able to ‘ opt out ’ of policies it did not like . |
| 2 | In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ . |
| 3 | Of course it did n't work ! |
| 4 | Of course it did n't move , it was an artefact , a product of engineering . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course it did n't . |
| 6 | Of course it did n't bother her personally . |
| 7 | so I wanted to try and go for the C C Q , this is it , this is what we 're gon na ask you and of course it did n't work but I had to try it to see . |
| 8 | Of course it did not . |
| 9 | The odds of an outcome are given by dividing the number of times the outcome occurred by the number of times it did not occur . |
| 10 | Well well I I as I er as both myself and my wife understood it , everything had been paid and then obviously when we got the letter saying we owed this amount of money it did n't come to light till Mr and Mrs came to see you |
| 11 | The hospital gave Allison the phone number of the Miscarriage Association but in her current state of mind it did n't help . |
| 12 | As Thurlstone lay within the medieval parish of Penistone it did not have its own Anglican church until St Saviour 's was built in 1904–5 . |
| 13 | The poet was a member of polite society addressing himself to his equals , and though poetry was a special mode of communication it did not exempt him from all the normal usages of polite society . |
| 14 | Figure 5.3 shows support for the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) to the United States Constitution , proposed in 1972 but never ratified because although it passed through both houses of Congress it did not receive the positive vote of three-quarters of the State Legislatures within seven years , as required by the Constitution . |
| 15 | And Pa Pat I do n't think I do n't hold out any hope at all that people will pay any attention they will go they 'll see a little puppy somewhere they 'll say , Oh that 's lovely we 'll buy that for Tommy er , and then Tommy will abuse it totally and er they 'll say , Well the dog was a a waste of time it did n't work properly and er did n't know how to er how to look after itself . |