Example sentences of "a [noun] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if it was a pay-off it did n't do him any good . ’ |
| 2 | Pretty deep there ; it 's a wonder it did n't slice the top of his head off . |
| 3 | He gave the market a stimulus just as it was starting to recover , a stimulus it did n't need . |
| 4 | There is a sense of which that good housekeeping with the inevitable consequences of government policy can be , can be in terms if you like , or benefits to the council tax payers , who have after all in a under the complete disaster of the poll tax which nobody but nobody in this chamber I suspect knew more unless there is at least one partisan tory who will try to save it , it was really a wonderful experiment and it 's a shame it did n't continue . |
| 5 | But it was a book about hierarchy , and that is why it became of interest to Carolingian bishops , as there is evidence that within a decade it did . |
| 6 | For a minute it did n't register . |
| 7 | And she also reminded herself that even if it had included a kiss it did n't mean a thing — especially as it had come from a man who was living in the outback to get away from women . |
| 8 | each , each time you pulled a handle it did one job and er could n't tell you really now what it was , you know but er you 'd pull the five handles in a few minutes and the damn thing was done . |
| 9 | Nigel remarked gloomily that he did n't suppose it would make the programmes any better , but in a way it did . |
| 10 | In a way it did n't surprise me , because I 'd already had a taste of what he was up to with that land . |
| 11 | We started many years ago by believing that innovation and uniqueness would provide the revenue to give us a good return , and for a time it did . |