Example sentences of "[subord] it [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | This behaviour was unmentionable a few years before , although it probably did take place . |
| 2 | Indeed , kinship could well be said to involve greater obligations to the old than it once did , because survivors now live longer and have fewer descendants who can share their care . |
| 3 | Moreover , AT&T 's labour-relations department has less influence than it once did , before decentralisation swept the company . |
| 4 | Let us assume , in accordance with the Marxist concept , that in the earliest human societies there was no political domination , in however rudimentary a form ( not even the domination of women by men ) , though this may seem less probable than it once did , in the light of recent studies of animal societies . |
| 5 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 6 | This original language does not seem to have had words for ‘ vine ’ or ‘ palm-tree ’ so it probably did not start in the Mediterranean . |
| 7 | Stars could not shine were it not for particles — called neutrinos — that are so insubstantial that they have no mass at all and can travel right through a solid object like the Earth as if it simply did not exist . |
| 8 | And that led me the think of phetam , and to wonder again if it really did confer super-powers . |
| 9 | If it ever did , it was always as a part which was apart , separate , a ‘ precious stone set in the silver sea . |
| 10 | The answer , of course , is that it has never happened , and if it ever did there would be immediate and radical constitutional change to ensure it never happened again . |
| 11 | She did not know of the vow he had made that if it ever did come he would make sure she was the first to go , even if it meant him staying in the Cages . |
| 12 | But what if it never did ? |
| 13 | when its like that it tries and pulls you down , and this is why there was an accident with a Wessex or something or a Sea King a while ago , where three or four people died , cos it just did n't get enough height and as , as it got to the top it just pulled it straight down to the ground , it could n't , it did n't have enough height to clear the circle |
| 14 | ’ . I listened , looking vague I expect , but did nothing — not from ill-will but because it just did not occur to me to change . |
| 15 | It would n't last , because it never did , and the end of October might even bring the first tentative snows of winter — but until then people would continue to be caught out , and to shiver and sweat as a penance for their gullibility . |
| 16 | Ruth had to smile because it certainly did n't sound like her . |
| 17 | Okay , we could have measured that and given it as part of a spec listing , but because it really did n't feel any different ( probably because its fingerboard width , radius and frets echoed most of the competition ) that fact was rendered almost inconsequential . |
| 18 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |
| 19 | County did not declare its interest since it technically did not own the Union Bank holding , and its market maker was exempt by law from disclosing holdings bought in the normal course of business . |
| 20 | When it finally did become self-replicating , this was a device evolved by the mineral crystal ‘ genes ’ to improve the efficiency of manufacture of the RNA ( or similar molecule ) . |
| 21 | Then suddenly , and sweetly , she began to realise that , since Travis was no more to her than a good friend , and she was still going to have her job at the end of all this , when it finally did end , it was going to be she who had the last laugh — and not N. Massingham Esquire . |
| 22 | It 's the kind of angle that makes us look at the space of the room that 's being photographed and the arrangement of objects in the room rather than the subjective viewpoint of the picture taker — recalling the very beginnings of photography when it was a simple recording device , and before it was considered a means of expression , when it sometimes did n't strive to imitate painting . |
| 23 | To save precious fuel , sheep were occasionally used on the front field instead of a motor-mower to keep the grass in check , though it probably did not matter too much , as for a short period the field could no longer be used anyway for Games , owing to the telegraph poles and other obstacles laid and dug there to thwart landings by German gliders and paratroopers . |
| 24 | Though it probably did not benefit her economically as much as has sometimes been thought , it endowed Britain with a great colonial empire and virtually unlimited opportunities of further expansion . |
| 25 | Then she seemed to shrug as though it really did n't matter . |
| 26 | At the vote on the imposition of sanctions against Iraq , Yemen abstained as it also did from the vote at the Arab League meeting which approved Arab military intervention in Saudi Arabia . |
| 27 | When the pilgrims ' way petered out , as it frequently did , you kept that small rooftop in your line of vision . |
| 28 | The only thing that could get one down — as it eventually did his American television followers — was his high-pitched , breathless , Scots delivery . |
| 29 | A formal , internal appeals procedure was eventually introduced in 1927 and , if that failed , as it invariably did , individual strategies could be developed — at a cost . |
| 30 | He identified so strongly with the system at its most ideal that when practice fell short , as it invariably did , he took it personally . |