Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you 'd say that as a b er as a result of that it did it did er so it did When you say it served its purpose , it did improve the image ? |
| 2 | He told me this gaily , as if it did not much matter whether I believed it or no . |
| 3 | It is , however , almost as if it did not have one . |
| 4 | I knew that it did not , and could not , but for the next week I found myself despairing as if it did . |
| 5 | My ears were burning , and my left shin throbbed as if it did not know I had stopped walking . |
| 6 | But you ca n't wipe out the past as if it did n't exist , Ruth thought . |
| 7 | A lackadaisical boy with spots admitted him , and asked what he wanted , as if it did not greatly matter . |
| 8 | As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding . |
| 9 | Your treating the question as if it did n't exist is no help to you , no one ever got away by playing the ostrich . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But it only looked as if it did n't go in , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 11 | And you come dancing up in your stinking rags as if it did n't matter ! |
| 12 | The flesh of his hands appeared loose , as if it did n't fit his bones . |
| 13 | In the US , the protected class includes a person whose disability represents no handicap to employment but is treated by employers as if it did ; or whose disability is a handicap to employment but only as a result of the attitudes of others towards it ; or who has no disability at all but is erroneously treated by employers as disabled . |
| 14 | But nicely , as if it did n't matter . ’ |
| 15 | Another view of some civil law courts is that neither set of conditions can apply to the contract ( since the parties manifestly wanted the contract to exist , acted as if it did , but could not agree as to which of their sets of standard conditions should apply to it ) . |
| 16 | The House of Lords held that when determining the nature of the source of the income arising to the trust one looked through the trust treating the trust for all practical purposes as if it did not exist . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , really ? ’ she uttered smugly as if it did n't matter at all . |
| 18 | What would love be for if it did n't solve everything ? |
| 19 | admitting things like losing fifty billion quid on fluttering on foreign exchanges er Mr did or flittering away the north sea oil revenue in tax cuts for higher earners rather than er keeping that er once in a life time er bonus that this country had for the north sea oil and also you could mention the increased pension for but it did n't match billions that have been wasted on defence expenditure especially defence expenditure and especially the trident programme . |
| 20 | On the other hand he referred to the claim of the appellants that the volume of documentation was very large and that if in all such cases a similar order was made there would be ‘ intolerable disruption ’ to an auditors ' business , the risk to the appellants that in producing the documents they might provide material to ground claims against themselves , and the suggestion that the order was not sufficiently specific in that it did not indicate to the appellants the areas in which the respondents considered that the appellants or others might be liable . |
| 21 | Publicly , Israeli officials criticized the resolution , but privately many declared it to be " tolerable " in that it did not recommend any concrete UN steps against Israel . |
| 22 | She wanted to be happy with him and for everything to be as it had been before but it did n't seem possible . |
| 23 | I did think I might read them some day , when I could bear to and it did n't feel quite so much like prying . ’ |
| 24 | Er it 's a matter of speculation as to whether it did play any part . |