Example sentences of "it did [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike most sugars , it does not taste sweet — if it did milk would be quite sugary to the taste-buds because it is loaded with lactose . |
| 2 | It did kind of like whatever ! |
| 3 | It did machines are machines people do n't you think ? |
| 4 | ‘ Just as well your particular brand of persuasion came to a halt when it did Dr Vaughan . |
| 5 | Internationally , this did no harm whatever , relieving as it did part of the burden on the social services , leaving prices unaffected and giving a better standard of living to existing residents and the newly-employed alike . |
| 6 | I can not understand how the Government sends a man out to fight us , as it did General Miles , and then breaks his word . |
| 7 | On Aug. 21 a meeting between Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi and US officials resolved tensions which had arisen over what the Kenyan authorities had perceived as the lack of proper consultation about the US operation , involving as it did US military aircraft overflying Kenyan airspace and the arrival of up to 300 US military personnel . |
| 8 | It took a moment for the truth to sink in , but when it did Herr Nordern jumped . |
| 9 | Compared to a Sun Sparcstation 10 it did 130Mb NFS writes at 158 seconds versus 971 seconds and reads at 130 seconds versus 144 seconds . |
| 10 | Compared to a Sparcstation 10 it did 130Mb Network File System writes at 158 seconds versus 971 seconds and reads at 130 seconds versus 144 seconds . |
| 11 | Most PC software did n't have a Macintosh counterpart and even if it did users had to work the magic of the asynchronous communications link to get data back and forth . |
| 12 | You know where our Sammy was at school like , it did fruit as well and they do n't really eat fruit , but I mean Samuel eats fruit . |
| 13 | So what does it did Philip pay up on time ? |
| 14 | Again this troubled Joan less than it did Anne , who wished her friend , as she insisted she was , to share everything . |
| 15 | So sleazy , Pamella 's tale , featuring as it did madams , whores , procuresses , cash payments , unusual sexual practices , Arabs . |
| 16 | The company does not have a sparkling financial story to tell — it lost £1.7m pre-tax on turnover of £12.5m in the year to September 30 , and its only profitable period in four years was the nine months to September 1991 , when it did £684,000 pre-tax on sales of £9.6m . |
| 17 | While the greening of the electorate was rapidly taken aboard and she was impressed by the fact that acid rain could damage international relations as surely as it did stonework and trees , what caught her imagination were the profound implications of what was happening to the chemistry of the deeper atmosphere . |
| 18 | It pierced the wizard 's forehead and penetrated to his brain as he stood cursing ; death took him unawares as it did Goliath , and his lifeless body fell backwards on to the sand . |
| 19 | BATTERED by low prices for oil and gas , Bow Valley Industries , an energy company based in Calgary , Alberta , with sales of C$142m ( $100m ) in 1992 , decided two years ago to rethink the way it did business . |
| 20 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 21 | The Hudson 's Bay Company would have had to change the way it did business completely if it wanted to convert its coastal settlements to which Indians came to sell their furs into bases from which fur trading parties went into the interior . |
| 22 | It did Thom himself little good but it exacerbated the inarticulate anger of other officers at the pettiness of the regulations in the face of the array of temptations . |
| 23 | The political élite paid it more attention than it did radio , even though the latter had a greater importance insofar as size of audience was concerned . |
| 24 | The taxi stopped briefly , and as it did Rachel saw another taxi stopping on the other side of the road . |
| 25 | I do n't know what good it did David in the long run because what it did was cost a lot of money . |
| 26 | It also put an end to any enjoyment of the meal , because Marguerite seemed to sink into a gloomy silence that worried Jenna far more than it did Alain . |
| 27 | Erm it , it did sort of get going but I felt that Maggie held back a little bit on that whereas you , you might have got er you know a bit , a bit more information with open questions . |
| 28 | SunSoft company claims it did 35% more business on Interactive Unix in 1992 than in the previous year , when the Interactive Systems Corp unit was still owned by Eastman Kodak . |
| 29 | SunSoft company claims it did 35% more business on Interactive Unix in 1992 than in the previous year , when the Interactive Systems Corp unit was still owned by Eastman Kodak Co . |
| 30 | What concerned him more than it did George was that the child would be a boy . |