Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 2 | But a final word of caution : venturis are temperamental , and to enclose yours within a blockwork wall , only to find that it did n't work properly , would be frustrating . |
| 3 | Suddenly she was surprised that she could talk about Ian White without regret ; surprised to find that it did n't hurt any more . |
| 4 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 5 | Why did this intervention have to come when it did ? |
| 6 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 7 | Now I was beginning to see that it did n't necessarily have to be that way . |
| 8 | The argument became heated when I refused to agree that it did not matter if the document was authentic or not . |
| 9 | Camille had to agree that it did seem preposterous that anybody they had known should be dead . |
| 10 | I will not pass this way again to see if it did him any good . |
| 11 | As the brain was a machine for processing information , what more logical to assume that it did so by utilizing in some very special way these informational macromolecules . |
| 12 | Well , he now has his stepmother to thank for the beautiful house that has been restored to look as it did in the 18th century . |
| 13 | Because it was pointless to deny that it did . |
| 14 | ‘ I found the wide head difficult to use as it did n't fit the contours of my skin . |
| 15 | After a year in which the Treasury 's forecasting failures ( notably that very large trade deficit ) have been rather obvious , it is only fair to recall that it did presciently point out just about every awkward little detail of the poll tax , from its automatic upward impact on inflation to the folly of providing local authorities with a golden opportunity to raise more tax while blaming the Government . |
| 16 | Were she to believe that it did matter , she would be finished . |
| 17 | I know Fran Cotton has a business to run but it did spoil the World Cup celebrations for many . |
| 18 | Vic tried to argue that it did n't make any difference how many toilets you had , it was the number of times you flushed them that mattered , but his father was convinced that having so many toilets was an incitement to unnecessary peeing , therefore to excessive flushing . |
| 19 | The growth rate in 1990 was expected to continue to decline as it did in 1989 , partly because of a predicted economic slowdown in the USA which was the destination of 30 per cent of Singapore 's exports . |
| 20 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |
| 21 | Freud seems to be willing to put it this way , and then to want to insist again that it was an actual deed , otherwise the impact is immediately lost once we allow ourselves to think that it did not happen . |
| 22 | Was it meant to end when it did ? |
| 23 | I think most Prisoners would say that the sex problem worried them less than they had expected it to , but that is not to say that it did not worry most people some of the time and some people all the time . |
| 24 | ‘ No man to upset and it did not take a great deal to upset him . ’ |
| 25 | To this is often ( but not always ) added an idea that a cause makes its effect happen , implying perhaps that to find a cause is to show why the effect had to happen as it did . |
| 26 | So far in the book , everything is quite likely to happen as it did . |
| 27 | Mungo had to admit that it did not . |
| 28 | Nor had she ever seen such a dress on anyone over the age of thirty , but seeing it , she had to admit that it did not even look bizarre : it was a pale purple smock , waistless and bustless , with long , much-buttoned sleeves , and yet it managed to give only the faintest , most delicate air of Bohemia . |
| 29 | His purpose was to demonstrate not that the earth did spin but that it was impossible for human reason to prove that it did not . |