Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [conj] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Darwinism entered into the panslavism of Danilevsky as it did into panteutonism . |
| 4 | but she said er , they did n't do too well with Anna because it did n't drain |
| 5 | And er J and W in Kirkwall started to bale hay in Orkney but it did n't pay for you to take to Kirkwall everyday to go to since the war . |
| 6 | It took much longer for a consolidated kingship to emerge in France than it did in Germany after the break-up of the Carolingian empire . |
| 7 | The joke was hardly likely to have them holding their ribs in Helsinki but it did reflect on the inordinate importance that gambling plays in the lives of Scottish footballers . |
| 8 | The pallium gave Hygeberht no jurisdiction in Saxon territories or in Kent but it did afford him metropolitan rights over all the Anglian peoples north of the Thames and south of the Humber , which may suggest that Offa was seeking not just an archbishop of the Mercians but a new ecclesiastical order for the Angles of midland and eastern England . |
| 9 | The Unilever product cost twice as much per ounce in Barbados as it did in England , and by driving out cheaper local alternatives the end result for the lower income consumer in Barbados was a product that was too expensive , too well-packaged and often surplus to requirements . |
| 10 | She wanted the truth from Urquhart if it did not bruise her , untruth if it did . |
| 11 | I 'd heard all about Group from Rosemary and it did n't seem to be my sort of place . |
| 12 | While both Angevins would naturally have liked to get their own way in both regions it is likely that the Quercy meant more to Richard than it did to Henry . |
| 13 | Wyvis Hall , logically , should have looked smaller to Adam but it did not , it looked much larger . |
| 14 | In fact it 's the best offer I 've ever had , and in any case I always knew I could go back to Wakefield if it did not work out . |
| 15 | Okay so got on that train , thinking it would go straight to Hertford and it did n't . |
| 16 | ‘ The locomotive for our London to Glasgow train was based in Leicester , ’ Mr Gisby says , ‘ so it had to come from Leicester to London before it did any work . |
| 17 | Iraq was in an easier position concerning Palestine since it did not share a border with Israel . |