Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Department of Agriculture might function more effectively for agriculture if it did not take on , unnecessarily and confusingly , a role in food marketing . |
| 2 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 3 | To the Marxist historian Michael Chanan the halls were merely ‘ tools of commercial exploitation ’ but a more balanced view would rely on an appreciation of the way in which ‘ live ’ variety revealed as much about showmen as it did about ‘ humanity at large ’ . |
| 4 | I think we 're entitled to ask if Nottinghamshire faces those problems , what is peculiar about Leicestershire that it did face those problems but all of a sudden it does n't face those problems . |
| 5 | Her question seemed to catch her more off guard than it did him , and she felt a warm blush rise to her cheeks . |
| 6 | You 'd gain if you avoided putting that down as a score draw , especially of course if it did n't turn out to be a score draw . |
| 7 | as if this were not bad enough , the great mudflow rolled on into the sea at the mouth of the Riviere Blanche , setting up a series of waves as it did so , one of which was powerful enough to capsize the yacht Precheur moored off the river mouth . |
| 8 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 9 | A former Minister of the Republic of Ireland told me recently that sovereignty did not mean the same for the people of Ireland as it did for us . |
| 10 | I never asked her , but I do n't imagine oral penetration figured as high on her list of priorities as it did on mine , and she could probably have done without the anal variety altogether . |
| 11 | This notion of breaking a repertoire of language behaviour into a progressive series , moving from simple to complex stages , bore little resemblance to traditional theories of learning since it did not include rote-memorisation as an essential element . |
| 12 | But I knew humans are capable of evil and it did n't change my view of humanity . ’ |
| 13 | This is partly because , as indicated earlier , the acquisition of the superego takes place in the modern individual in a different sequence of stages than it did in the culture , and partly because cultural psychological phenomena often present a clearly separated-out picture of their components whereas individual neuroses are often less easy to disentangle . |
| 14 | Late in 1988 I purchased a second-hand Toyota KS901 ( we are now the best of friends but it did take a while ) . |
| 15 | The veiled glance she sent Silas also swept Lucy , taking on a glitter of warning as it did so . |
| 16 | Darwinism entered into the panslavism of Danilevsky as it did into panteutonism . |
| 17 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 18 | I knew nothing about the realities of proper soldiering , and to counterbalance the tedium and boredom of my small-time life , I surrounded the idea of the French Foreign Legion with a cocoon of glamour that it did n't possess . |
| 19 | Jimmy had a lot of flair but it did n't help him win . ’ |
| 20 | The Labour party should know about the cost of restructuring because it did so itself when in government . |
| 21 | Due to a change in federal accounting standards , Unisys says , it would have been forced to take $700m in one-time charges against earnings if it did not cut the benefits , and that would wipe out one-third of the still debt-burdened company 's net worth . |
| 22 | but she said er , they did n't do too well with Anna because it did n't drain |
| 23 | But it is pure silk encrusted with sequins and it did give Yul Brynner a regal air when he wore it in The King And I in 1956 . |
| 24 | Briefly summing up , there seems to be little doubt that Mozart distinguished dots and strokes , and while he was nonchalant about the graphic shapes where it mattered little , he distinguished the signs with deliberation where it did matter . |
| 25 | What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on . |
| 26 | That ‘ event ’ had little to do with science although it did provide us with one or two technological tales , albeit mostly grim ones . |
| 27 | ADMEN WOULD N'T PUMP SO MUCH MONEY INTO IT IF IT DID N'T WORK |
| 28 | Conversely , and as the price for treating the company as its own , the dominant undertaking will be liable for the obligations of the company if the company defaults and this seemingly will apply even to preexisting obligations ; however , the dominant undertaking will be able to apply for relief from liability if it did not itself cause the company 's default . |
| 29 | Rovers enjoyed a heavy advantage in penalties before half-time but it did not do them a lot of good . |
| 30 | Free to roam , there was a free market in morality and it did n't matter what choice was made , everything continued to end happily . |