Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] it do " in BNC.

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1 I knew that it did not , and could not , but for the next week I found myself despairing as if it did .
2 Does n't make it any better if you messed about it picked up what I said but it did n't pick up very well what Jenny said .
3 I said if it does n't come in at two anyway and I 'll lend you something
4 I supposed that it did endorse part of Ewen Mackay 's story .
5 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 .
6 Betty began to open her mouth to argue that it was n't well-trained at all until she remembered that it did n't exist , and she had vowed not to get drawn into Lydia 's idiotic fantasies .
7 She wished that it did n't now make her think of graveyards .
8 She said that it did not matter whether or not he knew Alexander Atkins and instructed him to take down a message for him .
9 The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . )
10 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 .
11 We heard that it does not intend to cap any local authority .
12 I pumped one through today on something lost and it does give you an immediate link to , a written link .
13 Stubbornly , we insisted that it did .
14 But he moved towards Paris in late March : everyone knew that it did not take six weeks to get from Paris to Attigny .
15 First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 He was not rewarded with the birdie four he deserved but it did not matter .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 He replied that it did n't matter a damn about that as long as he got the fish on the bank .
22 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 .
23 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
24 It worked or it did not work .
25 And he thought that it did square , that there was a common root , a matrix of beliefs .
26 He knew that it did not , and yet she continued writing to him ; continued sending her love ; continued her demands , repeated in every letter , that he should go back to see her .
27 For a moment he felt that it did not matter what he had promised Maidstone .
28 In the Victorian era it did but it does n't today .
29 It said that it did not want the Government to channel funds in the direction of strategically selected industries .
30 And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book .
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