Example sentences of "it did [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I 've always been interested in housing and it did appear to me that however delightful Harlow may be , when the architects were designing properties , they designed a property without any consideration for the people who were to live in them . |
| 2 | But it did result in a 20% saving on commercial pig feed and also served to recover much of the lost nutrients in the ditches and to reduce eutrophication problems downstream . |
| 3 | It did result in er an improvement in the share situation and in the er strength of the pound , but I understand the share prices have dropped rapidly again following further news of oil price increases . |
| 4 | It did mention in the , the sort of packet that maybe feel cold with cold hands and what have you . |
| 5 | It did exist in those parts of ‘ modernizing ’ industry which were part of the engineering industry and involved skilled labour in manufacture , as distinct from the Fordist production practices of process plants . |
| 6 | SO , in the end , it did finish with a whimper and not a bang . |
| 7 | I felt that on this particular piece it did struggle through the heartwood at times , especially on the figure 's right-hand side as this was extremely hard in places , with dense interlocking grain where a branch or branches had formed . |
| 8 | The joke was hardly likely to have them holding their ribs in Helsinki but it did reflect on the inordinate importance that gambling plays in the lives of Scottish footballers . |
| 9 | It d it did depend on the t run that we had . |
| 10 | When it did dawn on me it was too late . |
| 11 | In many respects the Glorious Revolution was a significant landmark : it did alter in certain ways the relationship between the Crown and Parliament , it did guarantee the legislative sovereignty of Parliament , it did establish some limited degree of religious toleration for Protestant Dissenters , and the fact that after 1689 Parliament came to meet on a regular basis each year did significantly alter the context in which politics operated . |
| 12 | Even if it did lead to danger , as the signpost clearly said , she was determined to follow it , even though she was scared . |
| 13 | It was so radical that in later centuries it did lead to the abolition of slavery in the Western world . |
| 14 | Erm and with the housing people putting the type of people they put in there , it did lead to a lot of problems . |
| 15 | So the law was , was implemented , it became fa clear fairly quickly that , in the process of that implementation , it did lead to encroachment on the r middle peasant . |
| 16 | It did go through my mind a few times , but at the time it does n't seem that important . |
| 17 | ‘ It did go through my head — a wild surmise that the man might have been Gesner . |
| 18 | Er the blood blood count , because it did go for blood count , the blood count was er ninety three . |
| 19 | I thought the half bottle of wine we left was symbolic of the extravagant life I was now entering , though I must admit it did go against the grain and I did think vaguely of ‘ bowser bottles ’ . |
| 20 | But in Cheltenham it did go against them unfortunately . |
| 21 | Apparently every now and then it did succeed in reaching one of the lower perches , but I never saw it do so and to this day I do n't know how it managed it . |
| 22 | Many believed that the OEEC was inadequate to achieve far-reaching changes in economic conditions , yet actually it did succeed in lowering trade barriers and smoothing inter-European payments . |
| 23 | The new motion did n't get Kite much more distance — about five and a half yards , on average — but it did contribute to his rising from 29th on Tour in hitting greens in regulation to third . |
| 24 | There was no doubt that if it did spread to the nearest stack it would set the whole hayfield alight in a very short time . |
| 25 | In fact , the nastiest wife batterer — who was presented as somebody quite chilling — was a graduate ( I 'm not sure what that says about graduates ) and it did end with his wife actually leaving him . |
| 26 | Matters did not improve when they got to Glenelg and found an appalling inn — although it did draw from Johnson one of his best remarks of the entire tour . |
| 27 | Before very long , however , it did open in the West End . |
| 28 | One recent population study found that depression did not precede the eating disorder , although it did correlate with onset . |
| 29 | But it did relate to — and therefore change with — the monarch on the throne . |
| 30 | In fact for only 13 per cent was it not much of a whole-school effort , suggesting that mostly it did operate in the way intended . |