Example sentences of "[vb past] that it did " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sir Robert ruled that it did not have credibility and dismissed the charges without any of the accused having to present a defence . |
| 5 | The county court judge ruled that it did not . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | But another participant argued that it did n't really matter whether it was additional money or not . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The European Court overrode Italian civil law and stated that it did not consider these posts to be in the public service . |
| 13 | A quick phone call confirmed that it did . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Fisher replied that it did not matter much . |
| 17 | He replied that it did n't matter a damn about that as long as he got the fish on the bank . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The librarian observed that it did n't look as though they had been touched before . |
| 20 | Whereupon Johnson observed that it did not necessarily follow ‘ that a man who has written a good poem on an art , has practised it ’ , citing excellently instructive verses on cider by a man never known to have made any . |
| 21 | But Roberts discovered that it did not matter much where he grew up when he was driving through Southwark late one night on his way from work . |
| 22 | As to the presumption , Mr. Philipson , while prepared to acknowledge that it would apply to the reasonableness test , submitted that it did not apply when considering whether the Bank of England was acting in performance of its functions . |
| 23 | From its first meeting it was also identified with the anti-slavery movement and this meant that it did not establish itself in America , where many religious leaders were wary of too close an identification with such a divisive issue . |
| 24 | It was suggested that the extension of the period to three years from one required the attribution of a different meaning because the Theophile construction meant that it did not really matter what the period was ; as long as there was a debt , a bankruptcy petition could be presented . |
| 25 | Harvey Postlethwaite at Tyrrell felt that it did if the driver survived . |
| 26 | For a moment he felt that it did not matter what he had promised Maidstone . |
| 27 | The amount being recorded was at the limit of the detector 's sensitivity and the scientists felt that it did n't ( yet ) prove anything one way or the other . |
| 28 | Replying formally on April 5 , the Supreme Council repeated the call for immediate negotiations , but in conciliatory statements it acknowledged the Soviet leadership 's concern at events in Lithuania , and stressed that it did not seek to sever economic relations and " cultural and human ties " with the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | The meeting was the highest-level contact between the two countries since the end of the Korean War , but the USA stressed that it did not represent an upgrading of bilateral relations , but was a one-off event designed to impress upon the North Korean government the importance attached to the nuclear safeguards issue by the USA . |
| 30 | While welcoming his release the Mexican authorities stressed that it did not resolve the issues surrounding his abduction . |