Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [conj] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | nice try Gary but it did n't work |
| 2 | Mind , I can always claim to have had running water at Low Birk Hatt but it did happen to be a stream some way down the meadow . |
| 3 | I was coming into Apton Magna though it did n't look anything like Apton Magna . |
| 4 | The car , a 1986 Chaika that owed its style as much to the 1958 Cadillac Eldorado as it did to the people 's revolution , sped along a country road . |
| 5 | They found that £15 or £20 a week went as far in an erstwhile fishing village on Spain 's Costa Brava as it did at an English seaside hotel or holiday camp , with cheap wine and reliable sunshine thrown in . |
| 6 | Even more surprisingly , this little black and white indictment of the National Health Service did almost as well in the United States as it did in Britain . |
| 7 | Complex natural ecosystems are replaced by unsustainable simple ones , with a resulting loss of biodiversity — and that applies as much in the de-natured agricultural prairies of Alberta and East Anglia as it does to the hamburger ranches of Brazil . |
| 8 | We got better food in the RAF than most people in wartime Britain but it did n't compare with the Darrowby fare . |
| 9 | Britain 's Overseas Development Administration has its Manual of Environmental Appraisal which will presumably apply as much to East Europe as it does to the Third World . |
| 10 | ‘ We spent a lot of money evaluating Wheal Concord but it did n't fit into our scene , ’ says Brian Calver , Wheal Jane 's managing director . |