Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist . |
| 2 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 3 | The Uprising destroyed this normality , and one must ask why it occurred , and why it occurred when it did , twenty years after the territories fell under Israeli rule . |
| 4 | Sartre took four years to respond , and when the reply eventually came even his most sympathetic admirers agreed that it did not succeed in answering the main criticisms . |
| 5 | When , in this situation , the person defamed sought to issue a writ , and the Member concerned asked the House of Commons to treat the matter as a breach of privilege , the Committee of Privileges recommended that it do so but the House , by a small majority , rejected this recommendation . |
| 6 | Sir Robert ruled that it did not have credibility and dismissed the charges without any of the accused having to present a defence . |
| 7 | The county court judge ruled that it did not . |
| 8 | She heard the voice again , over and over , calling her name , and then gradually she realised that it did n't come from the dream and she opened her eyes , staring breathless into the darkness . |
| 9 | The Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lane , admitted that it did a bench of magistrates no ‘ credit if their clerk continues to affix standard conditions to bail forms even while applications are being made for unconditional bail ’ . |
| 10 | But another participant argued that it did n't really matter whether it was additional money or not . |
| 11 | When the barrister made his remark he was not aware that no such document existed , although he believed that it did because of what his client had said in evidence . |
| 12 | The court recognised that it did have a discretion under the Rules of the Supreme Court to allow service to stand despite the failure to comply with the relevant Rules , but declined to do so on the facts ; it would take ‘ a very strong case ’ , for example express representation by the defendant that the method of service adopted was lawful , before the discretion would be exercised . |
| 13 | North dropped the bread into the toaster , noticed that it did n't operate when he pressed the lever and looked round vaguely for the reason . |
| 14 | He was not rewarded with the birdie four he deserved but it did not matter . |
| 15 | Nothing much to add except that Redfern scored but it did n't really matter . |
| 16 | The idea was considered but rejected because it did not meet the Government 's timetable . |
| 17 | The European Court overrode Italian civil law and stated that it did not consider these posts to be in the public service . |
| 18 | In a telephone call after I read Kay 's article Medicare in Baltimore confirmed that it does cover such treatment in full . |
| 19 | A quick phone call confirmed that it did . |
| 20 | Last week , six months after the Wrexham factory opened , Intermagnetics acknowledged that it does not yet have a VHS licence . |
| 21 | He claimed that it did n't matter what mantra you said , or indeed if you did n't have one , as long as you cleared out your mind . |
| 22 | The company had admitted in June that initial results from boreholes drilled in the area showed that it did not have sufficient knowledge of conditions to guarantee safety of the repository . |
| 23 | Fisher replied that it did not matter much . |
| 24 | He replied that it did n't matter a damn about that as long as he got the fish on the bank . |
| 25 | He replied that it did seem strange to him too , but that at every stage God — as far as they could discern — had opened the way to do this . |
| 26 | no that 's right , yeah , I mean , I , I 've said it , I do n't care , but er I 've said in the past that er , I think some of the reason me and Ann split up was , I mean she always used to say I never treated her right and all things like that , I did you know , and I do care for her , but a lot of the things was I never showed it because erm if anything bothered me I never know it showed and it did n't bloody bother me because I 'd resolved myself after Julie that I 'd never let anything bother me again |
| 27 | The reasons why the Eisenhower administration acted as it did in 1956 remain potent , especially when examined without the advantages of hindsight . |
| 28 | Because of this background , I expected a book called Feminism for Beginners to explain why all this happened when it did . |
| 29 | ‘ In a way it 's quite lucky it all happened when it did — but it 's a shame for other people who will be bringing cases forward in the near future . ’ |
| 30 | Quite why ‘ Olliemania ’ happened as it did , and with such intensity , confounded almost everyone . |