Example sentences of "[noun] it [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an intelligent , thought-provoking script , but in Whitaker 's eyes it just did not work . |
| 2 | For all the good it ever did for your sons . |
| 3 | But to her mind it still did not excuse his neglect of everything else . |
| 4 | In practice it probably did not make a great deal of difference to either party whether or not leases existed , unless or until a serious dispute between them arose . |
| 5 | This change may reflect a disillusionment with the cost-benefit approach and the realisation that while this attitude might be helpful in manufacturing industry it certainly did not work in the service industry to which most of the Highlands were exposed . |
| 6 | Easy-to-run homes and a host of electrical aids mean that heavy housework does not take the toll it once did . |
| 7 | Mario , however , had a contract with Chapman and that contract had stipulated , as at Mario 's insistence it always did , that he was to be the team 's Number One driver . |
| 8 | For most of them sex happens in the same places it always did . |
| 9 | Once again they 'd reached an impasse , but in truth it really did n't matter . |
| 10 | On that occasion it certainly did ! |
| 11 | It looked like an eye Jo it really did . |
| 12 | We begin with an exploded concept , for ‘ mind ’ no longer signifies the entity it once did . |
| 13 | Whilst there is still some pressure for further reform , it is generally recognised that the Lords do perform a useful function and the abolition lobby no longer enjoys the political significance it once did . |
| 14 | If it gave Eva pause for thought it certainly did n't show in any relaxation of the pace she set herself . |
| 15 | But to people who are not trained in science it simply did not seem possible that mankind 's puny factories , and even punier cars and refrigerators , could have an effect on the well-being of the entire world . |
| 16 | A second dominant trend in the twentieth century is the gradual extension of democracy , but as I showed in Chapter 1 this was a slow and halting process in the interwar years , with democracy being suppressed in several European countries , by fascist regimes , the Stalinist dictatorship and the dictatorships in Portugal and Spain , while in the colonial territories it either did not exist at all , or in a few cases only in rudimentary forms . |
| 17 | His heart sank the way it always did when she left him . |
| 18 | If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did . |