Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albert said : ‘ They even held her train as she walked in so it did n't get wet . ’ |
| 2 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 3 | Her gown looked expensive , Ruth thought , but it would have suited her mistress better than it did its owner . |
| 4 | Again this troubled Joan less than it did Anne , who wished her friend , as she insisted she was , to share everything . |
| 5 | so if it did n't come on the Monday it could come on the Tuesday , by next week |
| 6 | Vet Steve Gillian told David and Pauline Drury and their 16-year-old twins , Beverley and Paul , the cat would have to be put down if it did not have the operation . |
| 7 | No. 28 was noticeable only because it did not have net curtains , just long , dark purple ones which were almost drawn across the front room window . |
| 8 | They were turned down because it did not fit the criteria . |
| 9 | It would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage . ’ |
| 10 | But that time must yet remain a few days ahead , while everywhere lay in the throes of a natural disaster — the nature of which had yet to be determined — and while the snow still fell as thickly as it did . |
| 11 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 12 | The question , coming suddenly as it did , caught Tam unguarded . |
| 13 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 14 | They refrained from responding to a long series of statements by senior Chinese officials which contradicted both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration - including an assurance , for example , that the post-1997 Hong Kong press would be free for ‘ as long as it did not publish anything detrimental to China 's national interest ’ . |
| 15 | There could , indeed , be no two opinions as to the right of every one of the great national subdivisions of Europe to dispose of itself , independently of its neighbours in all internal matters , so long as it did not encroach upon the liberty of others . |
| 16 | It was in any case something of a miracle — and a tribute to the tenacity of the Lebanese — that their Covenant worked for as long as it did . |
| 17 | While few serious historians have defended Communist excesses , some have argued that it was only the strategy in whose name they were committed that enabled the Republic to fight on for as long as it did . |
| 18 | It matters not how strong the persuasion was , so long as it did not overbear the independence of the patient 's decision . |
| 19 | ‘ It sounds lousy , but the great advantage to Celeste — and the reason why our relationship survived for as long as it did — was that she never had much of an impact on either my feelings or my thoughts . |
| 20 | He was accustomed to it from his schooldays since his was n't a memory system that made a good impression on harassed teachers or impatient examiners , especially as it did n't work at all with books . |
| 21 | Weaker areas are exposed dramatically when the market turns down as it did during 1992 . |
| 22 | If it chooses to interfere , it can formulate its decision in the words : ‘ The court below had no jurisdiction to decide this point wrongly as it did . ’ |
| 23 | It feels much better already than it did yesterday . ’ |
| 24 | I was going to get up at 5.30 anyway so it did n't make all that much difference . |
| 25 | Even so , it seems that the species survived in the Tigris-Euphrates basin longer than it did in the vast area between there and the Punjab . |
| 26 | After all , one feels , Mrs Washington was surely a thrifty housewife ; had the invention of margarine occurred a century sooner than it did , no doubt she would have taken advantage of the development . |
| 27 | ‘ It took an awful lot of my powers as Chairman of Academic Review and Resources Committee to steer that course through because it did mean a lot of resource implications that were n't obvious at the beginning . |
| 28 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 29 | A major reason for its success was the extreme reluctance of the army to run the power stations , largely because it did not believe that it could break the strike ( Ackroyd et al. , 1977 , pp. 64–6 ) . |
| 30 | Lavinia wanted to say she was sorry for Timothy Gedge , but did not because it did n't seem true . |