Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | This behaviour was unmentionable a few years before , although it probably did take place . |
| 2 | Mother always got annoyed when that story came up in conversation , and I made sure that it frequently did . |
| 3 | What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on . |
| 4 | If there was one ( albeit very small ) consolation about the sale of Dave Batty , it was that it finally did away with an important inferiority complex of mine — was I the only person in West Yorkshire not to be best mates with the man ? ? |
| 5 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |
| 6 | A decision to save by building up money balances no longer carries with it the high opportunity cost that it once did . |
| 7 | By the time the first sharp feelings of his loss had begun to wear off - it would be very many years before all of it did so , and arguable that it ever did — other voices were beckoning . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyhow , I was so busy last year doing five things at once that it really did my head in . |
| 9 | The fact that it sometimes did not work after that operation was incidental . |
| 10 | The investigation of firing showed that it certainly did n't help healing , causing the horse considerable distress for no good reason . |
| 11 | The big problem with this sort of fine-tuning , advisers said , was that it usually did more damage than it corrected . |
| 12 | ‘ But perhaps you 're in danger of forgetting that it always did , and always will , take two to tango . ’ |
| 13 | Indeed , kinship could well be said to involve greater obligations to the old than it once did , because survivors now live longer and have fewer descendants who can share their care . |
| 14 | Moreover , AT&T 's labour-relations department has less influence than it once did , before decentralisation swept the company . |
| 15 | Let us assume , in accordance with the Marxist concept , that in the earliest human societies there was no political domination , in however rudimentary a form ( not even the domination of women by men ) , though this may seem less probable than it once did , in the light of recent studies of animal societies . |
| 16 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 17 | This original language does not seem to have had words for ‘ vine ’ or ‘ palm-tree ’ so it probably did not start in the Mediterranean . |
| 18 | Yeah , even connected it on the end here , the , the station and set this display decoder up and it even did it there so it was nothing to do with the live lamp wire , the way they routed it we thought that perhaps rerouted it to the cable or something like that |
| 19 | ‘ The other song was really slammin' for the dancefloor but it 's a love song and it just did n't seem right . |
| 20 | It is to be noted that the section only applies where overpayment of rates is not otherwise recoverable , and it plainly did not occur to the House in that case that the overpayment might be recoverable apart from the section . |
| 21 | But if the reputation as high-handed , unloved and ruthless stepmother hurt ( and it clearly did ) , it did not deflect her from her purpose of re-vamping Althorp and opening it to the public as a top-attraction stately home in a competitive business . |
| 22 | We steered away from neutrality and headed for the magnificence of the Alps in the moonlight ; I always wondered if the Stirling would clear the Matterhorn and it always did with plenty to spare . |
| 23 | After all it was suggested er by er Michael Howard in who was Corporate Affairs Minister in nineteen eighty-six in , in the House of Commons he said that the Government believe that members of a pension scheme are in effect investors in that scheme and that that they deserve the protection of the Bill will extend to investors and it never did . |
| 24 | And it never did at the right |
| 25 | so it were n't interacting between the two , everything had changed and it still did it , were a new kit , got a cabinet of setting line , changed it and it still did it . |
| 26 | so it were n't interacting between the two , everything had changed and it still did it , were a new kit , got a cabinet of setting line , changed it and it still did it . |
| 27 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 28 | If an orator , anywhere in the world , publicly challenged the lightning to strike him if he lied , and it promptly did so , we should read about it and be duly impressed . |
| 29 | So in order to impress her I made a speech and it apparently did impress her because I 'm married to her now . |
| 30 | The presence of shallow marine sediments of Late Cretaceous age indicate that the region was below sea level at this time and it apparently did not emerge until the Early Cenozoic . |