Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Late in 1988 I purchased a second-hand Toyota KS901 ( we are now the best of friends but it did take a while ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ale was not often kept in barrels cos it did n't keep long enough to want to have enough of it . |
| 10 | This became apparent to others before it did to MacDonald himself . |
| 11 | No one ever looked ‘ a little lovelier each day with fabulous new Camay ’ — a bar of green Fairy soap worked as well on faces as it did on floors . |
| 12 | ( Iran had dissented from the final OPEC agreement in September on grounds that it did not impose strict enough controls on output — see p. 39120 — but had also demanded a larger proportional share for itself . |
| 13 | Today undoubtedly a marriage involves fewer regulations regarding property between spouses than it did in the eighteenth century . |