Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [conj] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Female labour was never used underground in Cornwall and it does not seem to have been much used at the surface either , until the growth of copper mining which rapidly overhauled tin in importance after about 1740 . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister has again defended the Maastricht Treaty warning that Britain faces isolation in Europe if it does not go through . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This gives the commission powers in London that it does not have for the rest of the country , where listed building controls are exercised only by district councils or the secretary of state . |
| 8 | 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 . |