Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] it did " in BNC.
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1 | it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really . |
2 | He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire . |
3 | When in Colossians 1:9ff Paul prays for Christians he has never met , his first request is that the Spirit would give them understanding of the Lord 's will for their lives ; then , that they should live their lives in accordance with that will by pleasing the Lord in everything ; then , that they should increase in their knowledge of God ; and finally , that they should be strengthened with all might according to the measure of his glorious power which should result for them as it did for Christ , not in arrogance but in patience and longsuffering . |
4 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |
5 | Er , summat had ran into back of bus , I do n't know what it 'd done to , whatever behind us but it did n't hurt bus . |
6 | He had come home on 30 March and , referring to Sutherland , had told her : ‘ That bastard had the cheek to lose the head with me because it did not work . |
7 | Press reporting focused as much on the reports about other women who had had sex with him as it did on the events to which he pleaded guilty . |
8 | As far as one can tell from his letters , he was pleased with it although it did not sell . |
9 | Coming upon me as it did , however , in the midst of such a busy period , I could not afford to let it preoccupy me unduly , and I thus decided I should resolve it at the earliest opportunity . |
10 | What distinguishes W. from them , and what with all respect I do not think that Thorpe J. took sufficiently into account ( perhaps because the point did not emerge as clearly before him as it did before us ) , is that it is a feature of anorexia nervosa that it is capable of destroying the ability to make an informed choice . |
11 | They did bring out Times Small Ads and I did try and do a Bible in it but it did n't work . |
12 | its all just grey , loads of grey in it and it did n't look streaked , it did look natural . |
13 | He has a dynamic personality and musical discrimination , and without exception the orchestra played much better for him than it did for the ballet conductor , Viktor Fedotov . |
14 | ‘ It seemed to me that it did not please you greatly when you first tasted it . ’ |
15 | Compassion came less easily to her than it did to her husband . |
16 | That the cottage meant as much to her as it did to him was obvious , but it did n't occur to him that she might have been the intruder who had broken in . |
17 | Jessica dropped in a reference to the Playboy of the Western World , her eye on Rory , but it passed as far over him as it did the seamen . |