Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | EGG producers yesterday demanded the resignation of Suffolk Coastal MP John Gummer as Agriculture Minister after his department admitted it did not pay farmers enough compensation for the slaughter of poultry flocks after the 1988 salmonella-in-eggs scare . |
| 2 | On the contrary , there is much to suggest that , in this election , Labour moved too far away from its traditional base ; that its attempts at reassuring those outside its ‘ natural ’ core of supporters meant it did too little to mobilise support among those who would benefit from its policies . |
| 3 | Only what good did it do to admit it ? |
| 4 | Georgina had it done before she called them . |
| 5 | He gave as an example the ‘ Union of Building and Repair Workers of Korea ’ with an alleged membership of over one million , which was challenged by the Soviet delegation ; subsequently the American delegation conceded it did not exist . |
| 6 | Erm the point which I do n't think I a quite adequately covered , erm Alan mentioned it did you not , in relation to where you give a signal , erm th the h new Highway Code makes a slight variation in relation to where you should give the signal when you 're exiting on the roundabout . |
| 7 | Rachaela and Ruth knew it did not mean anything . |
| 8 | Hampshire said it did not want to duck its share of the South-east 's demand for housing , but would find land enough in the south of the county in preference to development nearer London . |
| 9 | In response , the Bank of England said it did not accept the conclusions the committee had drawn from the Bingham Report . |
| 10 | The judge concluded it did not . |
| 11 | Yet the Commission could only do what member states allowed it to do , and it lost real power to other institutions which protected national interests . |
| 12 | Thus , although the cities were fiscally too valuable for the government deliberately to stunt their economic and institutional development , its own needs led it to do just that . |
| 13 | Whatever name the frightened young Pole spoke it did not make sense and when a sergeant said , ‘ It sounds like Wolski sir , ’ and smiled , Wolski took the cue and smiled back and nodded , patting the horse and looking positive . |
| 14 | Oliver would have gone on wrangling but Rain said it did not matter , her car was outside . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , Michele had it done for his wife . |
| 16 | But Stephen said it did n't matter , it did n't matter in the least if her strawberry jam did n't set , no matter what his father said . |
| 17 | The MIT proved it does n't have to be like that . |
| 18 | Clarissa said it did n't seem to matter , because here he was , free again , and did n't he feel ashamed of getting tiddly at lunchtime ? |
| 19 | With one exception , he won every case he presented to the VAT tribunal — the exception being when the tribunal decided it did not have the jurisdiction to hear the case . |
| 20 | Or at least that may dangerous people thought it did . |
| 21 | and er , and , yeah she said but your father liked it did he ? |
| 22 | There is no final dividend and Young said it did not expect to make a payment for 1992 . |
| 23 | The woman said it did n't matter . |
| 24 | It humbles us , as God intended it to do , to find that there is no tidy doctrine of the Spirit to be found in Acts or , for that matter , in the whole of the New Testament . |
| 25 | For the doctors agreed it did not hurt a baby to cry ; it only hurts grown-ups to listen to him . |
| 26 | A spokesman claimed it did not even have a record of the name of the hero pilot or a list of the passengers . |
| 27 | Timothy said it did n't matter . |
| 28 | The issue went to the International Court at The Hague in 1973 , but France said it did not recognise the court 's jurisdiction in the matter . |
| 29 | BNFL admitted it did not know where the waste originated . |
| 30 | On the one hand — and this is a point to which I shall return — there is a dual claim against Lukács ' evolutionism ( to the effect that different levels of a social formation are relatively autonomous : crudely , if bourgeois society is decadent this does not necessarily mean , as Lukács thought it did , that its art is too ) , and in favour of the possibility of being able to pass a positive ‘ aesthetic judgement ’ upon a particular work however questionable the general category under which it has been produced ( a position related to Brecht 's polemic against Lukács ) . |