Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] it did " in BNC.
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| 31 | And if it did n't get a mention , then we did n't actually do it . ’ |
| 32 | Persistent hypertension was treated by standard methods and if it did not resolve then the dose of the study drug was reduced . |
| 33 | A ministry that enjoyed royal confidence could generally take the House of Lords for grated , and provided it did not prove incompetent or seek to impose excessive taxation , " its position was unassailable in the Commons . " |
| 34 | The public library has lost its soul because it has been absorbed into the modern semi-literate culture and because it did not have the knowledge and experience gained across generations that the old private libraries had to enable them to cope with the world of mass circulation popular fiction , for example , rather than the People 's University that Hoggart remembers from his youth in the Hunslet district of Leeds . |
| 35 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 36 | It claims Michael Heseltine wrote two letters to SFV saying he 'd read the company 's brochure and because it did n't run package holidays there was no need for insurance . |
| 37 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates . |
| 38 | And while it did , the diggers stood idle and the construction crews drank tea in The Wife 's Legs . |
| 39 | And whether it did anything else , I can tell you Peter , you 're not the only one that 's made reference to Gillian Sheppard being on the cover of our journal . |
| 40 | And when it did , the hoardings stayed wide awake . |
| 41 | He talked of becoming party leader ‘ for life ’ , and when it did not come off , he sacked the Prime Minister , Mr Ion Gheorghe Maurer , after 14 years in the job . |
| 42 | The Committee did not meet again until August 30th , a break of almost three months , and when it did , it was without any reference to the course ; this seems quite remarkable . |
| 43 | And when it did arrive , I knew that Kano was still one thousand , seven hundred miles away over mountains and dunes , almost as far from me as Manchester , my home , where , as I turned ruefully north , I wished I had stayed . |
| 44 | Missing , he swung his pony round in pursuit , and when it did n't turn quickly enough , clouted it very hard round the head with his stick . |
| 45 | It was a second or two before it opened and when it did her lips parted silently . |
| 46 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 47 | She stood on the stage four mornings in a row , note-pad prominently displayed against her overall , waiting for his summons , and when it did n't come she watched the smoke from his cigarette curling above the upturned seats and felt she herself was drifting into darkness . |
| 48 | He must have known that it was bound to come out , and when it did his case would appear that much blacker . |
| 49 | When it did work , I was never sure what I 'd done right , and when it did n't , I was never sure what I had done wrong — it was very hit and miss . |
| 50 | But that only happened sometimes and when it did she would take out her account book and force herself to concentrate on its columns till the dangerous exhilaration had gone . |
| 51 | The small , soft sound took a while to register , and when it did she looked up , startled . |
| 52 | Recognition came slowly , but , as she had feared , it came , and when it did so Havvie 's cruel eyes ran up and down her body . |
| 53 | It was a worry when we did n't get a pension and when it did come , it alleviated things , but we know it could run out in the New Year . |
| 54 | Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear , and when it did it committed the traditional error — not emulated by the Germans — of having too many models . |
| 55 | The earth seemed to be breaking up , and as it did so a white vapour erupted from the soil . |
| 56 | The train started , moved forward on a smooth glide , and as it did so the iron claws embraced her , like the appendages of a monster . |
| 57 | Boulton happened to meet him at Exeter however , and as it did not coincide with the ideas of the firm to lose the services of their best engineer in this fashion , Murdock was persuaded to return . |
| 58 | The vehicle shot forward , and as it did so the first rocks from above came hurtling down onto the track just behind us . |
| 59 | It began to pick up speed and as it did so larger fireworks were detonated , so that showers of sparks and clouds of coloured smoke trailed behind like a peacock 's tail , green and red and blue . |
| 60 | The last tiny flicker of hope seemed to die inside her , and as it did all the lights in the grand chamber went out . |