Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [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 | Her question seemed to catch her more off guard than it did him , and she felt a warm blush rise to her cheeks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But I knew humans are capable of evil and it did n't change my view of humanity . ’ |
| 7 | The veiled glance she sent Silas also swept Lucy , taking on a glitter of warning as it did so . |
| 8 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Jimmy had a lot of flair but it did n't help him win . ’ |
| 11 | The Labour party should know about the cost of restructuring because it did so itself when in government . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That ‘ event ’ had little to do with science although it did provide us with one or two technological tales , albeit mostly grim ones . |
| 15 | ADMEN WOULD N'T PUMP SO MUCH MONEY INTO IT IF IT DID N'T WORK |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Rovers enjoyed a heavy advantage in penalties before half-time but it did not do them a lot of good . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in magazines , though the Hudson somewhat less so than the river I 'd just left . |
| 20 | ( Two hundred years earlier , as she demonstrates in her article , it was not seen as arbitrary , but prescribed quite explicitly on the grounds that the masculine was the ‘ worthier gender ’ and must take precedence in grammar as it did in nature . ) |
| 21 | Ivory continued to serve many of the same purposes in Christendom as it did in Classical antiquity . |
| 22 | He did n't blame the DIA for what had happened , or for fading from sight when it did . |
| 23 | Erm , I 've always been interested in housing and it did appear to me that however delightful Harlow may be , when the architects were designing properties , they designed a property without any consideration for the people who were to live in them . |
| 24 | Seurat 's Dimanche après-midi à l'île de La Grande Jatte moved towards the abstract and uniform in form as it did in content , thereby making class distinctions between the figures on a Sunday outing that he drew difficult to see . |
| 25 | It did , however , provide that the Agency , through investigation , could help to ensure that employers promoted equality of opportunity in employment but it did not provide that employers had a duty themselves to promote equality of opportunity in employment . |
| 26 | Yesterday , his uncompromising conclusions left no one in doubt that it did . |
| 27 | It was incredible , so incredible , so lost in time that it did something to me — changed my perspective , my outlook , something strange that even now I barely understand . |
| 28 | Furthermore , those species that accidentally forged some connecting suspension for the front legs independent of the skull would be among the first to walk , otherwise the head would have to turn constantly from side to side as it did so . |
| 29 | The latter airlifted $2.2 billion worth of weaponry to prevent Israel 's defeat but on condition that it did not press home a counter-attack . |
| 30 | For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population . |