Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 2 | I think we 're entitled to ask if Nottinghamshire faces those problems , what is peculiar about Leicestershire that it did face those problems but all of a sudden it does n't face those problems . |
| 3 | While both Angevins would naturally have liked to get their own way in both regions it is likely that the Quercy meant more to Richard than it did to Henry . |
| 4 | She kissed Lucy and it did n't matter that somehow her lips landed only on her cheek . |
| 5 | California 's SIP was rejected by the EPA because it did not provide for attainment of the photochemical oxidant standard for Los Angeles . |
| 6 | Even more surprisingly , this little black and white indictment of the National Health Service did almost as well in the United States as it did in Britain . |
| 7 | I quoted Shakespeare : ‘ Stands Scotland where it did . |
| 8 | While pointing to a radical overhaul of economic relations from 1991 , with trade denominated in convertible currency , he denied that the Soviet Union would abandon or penalize Cuba if it did not follow Soviet-style reforms . |
| 9 | And er J and W in Kirkwall started to bale hay in Orkney but it did n't pay for you to take to Kirkwall everyday to go to since the war . |
| 10 | A former Minister of the Republic of Ireland told me recently that sovereignty did not mean the same for the people of Ireland as it did for us . |
| 11 | nice try Gary but it did n't work |
| 12 | The councillors argued that the company traditionally expatriated such large profits to the UK that it did not merit its share of about £150,000 of the grant . |
| 13 | I thought it would make a difference being a Mrs but it did n't . |
| 14 | Wyvis Hall , logically , should have looked smaller to Adam but it did not , it looked much larger . |
| 15 | but she said er , they did n't do too well with Anna because it did n't drain |
| 16 | Iraq was in an easier position concerning Palestine since it did not share a border with Israel . |
| 17 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 19 | ‘ We spent a lot of money evaluating Wheal Concord but it did n't fit into our scene , ’ says Brian Calver , Wheal Jane 's managing director . |
| 20 | It took much longer for a consolidated kingship to emerge in France than it did in Germany after the break-up of the Carolingian empire . |
| 21 | The joke was hardly likely to have them holding their ribs in Helsinki but it did reflect on the inordinate importance that gambling plays in the lives of Scottish footballers . |
| 22 | We got better food in the RAF than most people in wartime Britain but it did n't compare with the Darrowby fare . |
| 23 | Darwinism entered into the panslavism of Danilevsky as it did into panteutonism . |
| 24 | Mr Mulloy says that Lady Jane Grey is now paying more attention to the three Rs than it did previously . |
| 25 | In fact it 's the best offer I 've ever had , and in any case I always knew I could go back to Wakefield if it did not work out . |
| 26 | The car , a 1986 Chaika that owed its style as much to the 1958 Cadillac Eldorado as it did to the people 's revolution , sped along a country road . |
| 27 | Okay so got on that train , thinking it would go straight to Hertford and it did n't . |
| 28 | The pallium gave Hygeberht no jurisdiction in Saxon territories or in Kent but it did afford him metropolitan rights over all the Anglian peoples north of the Thames and south of the Humber , which may suggest that Offa was seeking not just an archbishop of the Mercians but a new ecclesiastical order for the Angles of midland and eastern England . |
| 29 | I know the name was McCloy but it did n't mean nothing to me . |
| 30 | ‘ The locomotive for our London to Glasgow train was based in Leicester , ’ Mr Gisby says , ‘ so it had to come from Leicester to London before it did any work . |