Example sentences of "[noun prp] but it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | nice try Gary but it did n't work |
| 3 | I thought it would make a difference being a Mrs but it did n't . |
| 4 | Wyvis Hall , logically , should have looked smaller to Adam but it did not , it looked much larger . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We got better food in the RAF than most people in wartime Britain but it did n't compare with the Darrowby fare . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I know the name was McCloy but it did n't mean nothing to me . |
| 10 | Mind , I can always claim to have had running water at Low Birk Hatt but it did happen to be a stream some way down the meadow . |