Example sentences of "it do [not/n't] help " in BNC.
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| 1 | I try wiping my fingers on my coat , but it do n't help much — I still feel all sticky . |
| 2 | It did not help at all that upon arrival yesterday the royal couple instantly touched base in that comforting symbol of past British power , the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank . |
| 3 | But service with Mr Deng in Taihang does not necessarily provide protection from purge ; it did not help Zhao Ziyang , the former prime minister and party leader . |
| 4 | It did not help matters that about the time Rowell 's rather reluctant jab at some New Zealand rugby habits was being published it occupied space beside reports that the All Blacks had been over-vigorous — and sometimes over-the-top — in their match against New South Wales at Sydney . |
| 5 | It did not help the Irish , either , that they may well have been winding down after the Five Nations Championship whereas New Zealand 's players were hitting top gear with early-season All Black trials . |
| 6 | It did not help that the ‘ Hitler Diaries ’ , the story of how a forger fooled British and German newspapers as well as reputable historians with amateurish fakes purporting to be the German leader 's handwritten diaries , was currently on television . |
| 7 | But it did not help . |
| 8 | Her GP referred her to a hospital in Watford , North London , where she underwent laser treatment to try and prevent the damage from getting any worse — but it did n't help . |
| 9 | Jimmy had a lot of flair but it did n't help him win . ’ |
| 10 | He was constantly being put down by his friend , and it did n't help for me to be putting his friend down . ’ |
| 11 | And it did n't help to have that idiot Kegan see what he bad done and try to extricate him . |
| 12 | It did n't help that The Smiths video for the gorgeously maudlin ‘ Girlfriend In A Coma ’ featured the sad impassioned face of Morrissey and only Morrissey . |
| 13 | It did n't help when Westminster enforced successive cuts in pay as part of the public-services ' sacrifice in relation to the national economic crisis of 1931 and 1932 . |
| 14 | No matter how carefully they pointed out that areas of low pressure almost always bring rain and high winds and plenty of cloud , it did n't help at all when Station Commanders and Navigation Officers specifically wanted clear skies and good visibility over their targets . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I went round another corner and took out the map to find out where I was , but it did n't help . |
| 17 | And it did n't help him to know the scholars found it equally obscure . |
| 18 | ‘ It did n't help me to have to live in a hotel at the time . |
| 19 | ‘ It did n't help me to have to live in a hotel at the time . |
| 20 | I found it very difficult not to push then , and although I tried the puff , puff , blow it did n't help , and I had to pant . |
| 21 | It did n't help me that I was a common-law wife for 18 years and had a child . |
| 22 | It did n't help that most of the time I was pissed out of my brain . |
| 23 | The hospital gave Allison the phone number of the Miscarriage Association but in her current state of mind it did n't help . |
| 24 | It did n't help much . |
| 25 | It did n't help when Lecky the cook said , ‘ Gim me the cube rights- ’ |
| 26 | I went to a sensitivity-training center and I learned body language , but it did n't help my marriage , because I was a tool of male imperialism and that was what I was really resenting all the time . |
| 27 | It did n't help . |
| 28 | I got another stone out of the wall , but it did n't help . |
| 29 | It did n't help that , intellectually , I knew that she was reliving her own feelings about the way in which a second child — me — had wrecked her marriage . |
| 30 | It did n't help that Mom had candy and nuts in dishes all over the house . |