Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 2 | To questions about tax and public services , the public responded as it did in the days of Thatcher : by denying her creed of the Rich Samaritan and countering with approval for self-sacrifice and public services . |
| 3 | There was an estimate of £10:1:0 for enclosing Kiels , with a gate , and they recommended that it be done if it did not exceed |
| 4 | If it had been only philanthropy , would it have felt like it did ? |
| 5 | It would be overshadowed if it did . |
| 6 | This will never happen if the law of reflection happens to be true , but no logical contradiction would be involved if it did . |
| 7 | If the husbands ask why there should be such a penalty , then I can only answer that it is because Parliament has enacted as it did . ’ |
| 8 | The National Gallery must be very satisfied to have concluded as it did last week . |
| 9 | But then there are other forms where this description does not suggest itself , or might not be admitted if it did : for example , ballroom dancing , which would be normally set down simply as ‘ a pleasurable social activity ’ ( and as such different from art ? ) . |
| 10 | Wanting someone , like he wanted Kelly Connor , was no novelty to Jack — hardly a day passed when it did n't happen to him — but a quick telephone call and a Suzi or a Debra , one of his sexual Samaritans , would be there to make it feel better . |
| 11 | He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell . |
| 12 | He says that the circumstance might have existed as it did , the other events and conditions in the universe might have been as they were , and there might have been no smell . |
| 13 | ‘ There were so many commodity businesses trying to make a living out of exporting , so when sterling strengthened as it did , our commodity activity was priced out of existence . ’ |
| 14 | This dynamic could not indeed have developed as it did without the very considerable influence behind the scenes , particularly in the preparation of documents between sessions , of leading consultants whose theology was indeed far beyond that of any but a handful of bishops : Congar , Rahner , Philips , Chenu , Courtney Murray among others . |
| 15 | Public spending was controlled so it did not exceed revenue . |
| 16 | The paper was returned because it did not suit the magazines 's readership , but was accepted by Infection and Immunity . |