Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I forgot all about that but it did n't matter anyway . |
| 2 | There 's an instrumental track called Bone Down , and there was originally a guitar solo after that but it did n't fit well — you know , like a good solo will make the song move in the right direction . |
| 3 | Oh , after all that it did n't work ! |
| 4 | Oh the by-pass road , you know the north northern part of Ipswich , along the by-pass and of course had ordered trolley buses , because you had to order 'em about two years ahead of time , erm , to take care of that but it did n't materialize and we had a surplus of buses and some of them were sold off , I think some went to Walsall , some to Wolverhampton and er I , I think it was one of those that was sold to Wals Woolwich , figured in the national newspapers that had toppled over . |
| 5 | It was inevitable that she should start like that but it did n't save her from a sense of her inadequacy . |
| 6 | Trade with Russia might survive if the Muscovy Company went out of business , but it was not easy to imagine that trade with Hudson Bay ( with all that it did for London furriers and re-exporters ) could continue if the Company lost its trading rights , and the Royal African Company was believed to be necessary for the slave trade until the 1690s , and the East India Company kept its position in trade with India for over a century after that . |
| 7 | But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago . |
| 8 | That was a very shrewd thing to say in 1940 but it did not happen for nearly five years . |
| 9 | Britain 's previously firm stand against tear-gas was significantly undermined by a government statement in 1970 that it did not consider CS and similar gases to be covered by the Protocol . |
| 10 | Despite the expectation that electricity demand grows hardly at all , the CEGB expects to burn more oil in 2000 than it did in 1981 . |