Example sentences of "it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't say ‘ something helpful ’ or ‘ enriching ’ or even ‘ extremely valuable ’ . |
| 2 | It is a contender : a colleague of Ackroyd 's on The Times announced that it was a ‘ sure contender ’ for the Booker Prize of 1987 ( which it did n't receive ) . |
| 3 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 4 | Levi 's statement to Philip Roth about If not now , when ? did not mention Babel , but it did mention another Isaac — the Yiddish writer , Bashevis Singer . |
| 5 | Well , it did really . |
| 6 | Yes , it did . |
| 7 | I 'm sure it did . |
| 8 | In addition , whether or not one had attended a catholic school may have had little effect on sexual values or mass attendance but it did increase catholic activism and racial tolerance ( Greeley , McCready , and McCourt 1976 ) . |
| 9 | But it did nothing for the glass . |
| 10 | It did n't stop me going on , but it stopped him . |
| 11 | But it did not bring an end to the speculation and confusion which was rending the civilized world . |
| 12 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 13 | It did n't stop her hoping , waiting and hoping , for the next five years , he wrote , wasting her life when it was obvious he had no intention of going through with it . |
| 14 | Much good it did him . |
| 15 | It did not take long . |
| 16 | This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak . |
| 17 | It did n't do her any good at all . |
| 18 | ‘ It did occur to me that the doctor did choose an odd moment to draw attention to the bell 's being there . |
| 19 | Will regional programming continue under Channel 3 as it did under ITV ? |
| 20 | It did not really matter who we were or where we had come from ; the fountain united us all in a common purpose and that was enough . |
| 21 | What if it did n't work out after all ? |
| 22 | Thankfully , it did n't get that far . |
| 23 | When it reached about 3ft I pinched out the top to make it branch , which it did most satisfactorily . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , the glider did start to take-off , it did drop a wing and swing , and there was a collision . |
| 25 | She kissed Lucy and it did n't matter that somehow her lips landed only on her cheek . |
| 26 | It did not . |
| 27 | And a certain party 's name was not to cross her mind , rather , if it did , she was to wipe it out with a picture of her favourite places , backed by her favourite music . |
| 28 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 29 | You 're in luck — we found a fowl this morning , and it did n't look too well , so we had to put it out of its misery . ’ |
| 30 | Years later , in a moment of youthful self-disclosure , his grandson commented through one of his fictional characters , ‘ It did n't matter to him how he faced the congregation : his grandfather had built the synagogue . ’ |