Example sentences of "of [noun] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some Tory Euro-sceptics like Teddy Taylor now see such a deal as the harbinger of a two-tier Europe in which Britain would be able to ‘ opt out ’ of policies it did not like . |
| 2 | In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ . |
| 3 | Of course it did . |
| 4 | Of course it did n't work ! |
| 5 | They scrambled , this time , as if secrecy did n't matter , although of course it did . |
| 6 | But of course it did , and in the end our event was the only one to make money for their thingy , and we stayed there . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course it did ! ’ snapped his father . |
| 8 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 9 | Of course it did n't move , it was an artefact , a product of engineering . |
| 10 | And of course it did , albeit twelve years later — a woman older than Grace with a private income . |
| 11 | Our hilarity contained terror , of course it did , terror of our own fragility . |
| 12 | Of course it did not . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course it did . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Of course it did n't . |
| 15 | Of course it did n't bother her personally . |
| 16 | Of course it did herald a new era … in the second division . |
| 17 | Of course it did I , I , I was able to , I was able to pick up , and I used to clear up crimes which I know that some of the others would n't have cleared up at that time . |
| 18 | so I wanted to try and go for the C C Q , this is it , this is what we 're gon na ask you and of course it did n't work but I had to try it to see . |
| 19 | its , honestly it was and eventually of course it did come out and there 's always been a gap because the one behind |
| 20 | But of course it did in a sense get done , but when Milton did write his great poem , as we 'll see , it came out very differently . |
| 21 | The odds of an outcome are given by dividing the number of times the outcome occurred by the number of times it did not occur . |
| 22 | Well well I I as I er as both myself and my wife understood it , everything had been paid and then obviously when we got the letter saying we owed this amount of money it did n't come to light till Mr and Mrs came to see you |
| 23 | The hospital gave Allison the phone number of the Miscarriage Association but in her current state of mind it did n't help . |
| 24 | As Thurlstone lay within the medieval parish of Penistone it did not have its own Anglican church until St Saviour 's was built in 1904–5 . |
| 25 | The poet was a member of polite society addressing himself to his equals , and though poetry was a special mode of communication it did not exempt him from all the normal usages of polite society . |
| 26 | Since the DFR was not a document of title , but merely a receipt and notice of shipment it did little to assure the consignee or bona fide purchaser of the goods that the shipper would not resell or reroute the goods in transit . |
| 27 | Figure 5.3 shows support for the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) to the United States Constitution , proposed in 1972 but never ratified because although it passed through both houses of Congress it did not receive the positive vote of three-quarters of the State Legislatures within seven years , as required by the Constitution . |
| 28 | It was really extremely hazardous , and as we stood there peering vainly into the blanket of fog it did cross my mind that we were all quite crazy . |
| 29 | The poor would at least have a common school with the advantaged in society , enjoy a common programme and though this in itself did not mark equality of outcomes it did secure equality of access . |
| 30 | ‘ Yeah , as a matter of fact it did . |