Example sentences of "[noun sg] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 2 | I do n't know what good it did David in the long run because what it did was cost a lot of money . |
| 3 | For all the good it did me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 5 | The hospital gave Allison the phone number of the Miscarriage Association but in her current state of mind it did n't help . |
| 6 | In practice it did n't work … |
| 7 | Whatever one 's interpretation of these events , however , attempts to explain away the chronological oddity of the attack on Hastings should not be allowed to obscure the fact that in practice it did not stop Richard taking control of the duke of York . |
| 8 | Whatever one 's interpretation of these events , however , attempts to explain away the chronological oddity of the attack on Hastings should not be allowed to obscure the fact that in practice it did not stop Richard taking control of the duke of York . |
| 9 | I felt that on this particular piece it did struggle through the heartwood at times , especially on the figure 's right-hand side as this was extremely hard in places , with dense interlocking grain where a branch or branches had formed . |
| 10 | ‘ And if it was a pay-off it did n't do him any good . ’ |
| 11 | It never again had quite the effect it did on that day when Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain was driven from the field , and , in truth , Gambo could n't quite remember that recipe to his dying day . |
| 12 | It did n't quite hit the fan it did n't quite ! |
| 13 | In the short term it did sterling work in organizing petitions , counter-demonstrations and , most significantly , a mass lobby of Haringey Council in October , 1986 , when the Labour councillors reaffirmed their commitment to all aspects of their lesbian and gay rights policy . |
| 14 | And boom it did . |
| 15 | However , thanks to my evasive action it did not happen . |
| 16 | ‘ Unfortunately , the company 's proposal was rejected twice by its hourly-payed employees which forced the company to take the action it did in hiring new employees . ’ |
| 17 | On the credit side it did allow the rear axle of the tug to be the full width of the vehicle , giving more stability , as did the final ‘ Wolverton ’ design . |
| 18 | In fact when the Daily Mail launched an appeal for an anti-red ambulance it did not raise sufficient money to send even one to the Spanish fascists . |
| 19 | He heard the key grating ineffectively in the wards of the lock it did not fit , and her vexed , angry breathing as she wrestled to make it enter where it would not go . |
| 20 | Pretty deep there ; it 's a wonder it did n't slice the top of his head off . |
| 21 | and , what was funny in the ad it did n't say where . |
| 22 | He gave the market a stimulus just as it was starting to recover , a stimulus it did n't need . |
| 23 | The crux of the criticism directed at the Labour Party , in particular , is that while it provided food and medical help it did little to try to persuade the British government to end its policy of non-intervention towards Spain . |
| 24 | And unfortunately second half it did n't come right but as I say we 've got a point out of it so we still you know , kept ourselves unbeaten for a game or two , so we 've just got to try keep it going and take it from there . |
| 25 | So he disconnected it and told the council it did n't work . |
| 26 | On the product front — and picking up on some of the work it did for ACE — the company says an Intel Corp P5-specific SCO Unix kernel is a possibility . |
| 27 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 28 | He did give a little shove to a defender who was shielding Wallace from the ball as it was running thru to Coton , but Coton could nt hold it anyway so IMO it did nt affect the ‘ goal ’ . |
| 29 | In that moment it did n't matter who or what she was . |
| 30 | 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 . |