Example sentences of "did [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye they did although it takes me a bit of time to think about it but erm they did have a a er a black book , aye . |
| 2 | In the Victorian era it did but it does n't today . |
| 3 | Yes I did , it started going , I do n't know what I did but it started going it started |
| 4 | I did resent her quite a lot for what she did but it gave way after a few months . |
| 5 | So um it 's much I suppose it makes the world a slightly safer place if you can say it was to do with something that you did because it brings the world slightly back under your control , maybe . |
| 6 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 7 | But Eve Pearce is magnificently anguished and smothering as Henny ( this is the kind of mother whose ‘ I do n't want to burden you with my problems ’ sounds as convincing as ‘ I am not a crook ’ did when it come from the lips of Richard Nixon ) , and Debora Weston flutters and fences vivaciously as the girlish killer and literary know-all . |
| 8 | The specimen shown has both its original valves preserved , and looks today much as it did when it had just died . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the country loses control over vital assets , as Mexico did when it exchanged shares in one of its biggest manufacturing companies — Grupo Alfa , against a reduction of several hundred million dollars in its debts . |
| 10 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 12 | This is one reason why firms are often most willing to start with a clean sheet of paper when setting up a new subsidiary , as Britain 's Midland Bank did when it established First Direct , its successful telephone-banking business . |