Example sentences of "[coord] it did [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it did n't do any harm at all , that lump . |
| 2 | ‘ I started with nothing and it did n't do any harm , ’ she said , in the look-at-me-now manner of the comfortably off . |
| 3 | I 'd noticed a couple of characters in different bars who also seemed more interested in the people than the liquor , and it did n't need any Sherlock Holmes to know who was paying for their drinks . |
| 4 | My detectives had established your many moves and it did not take much intelligence to realise why . ’ |
| 5 | Yet the first indications that London was soon to show explosive growth were already present , and it did not need much foresight to see that it would not be long before any green-field site chosen near London for the location of the College would soon be engulfed in bricks and mortar , which would sweep away hay- and grazing-fields , market gardens and brickfields alike . |
| 6 | This was quite a good bargain for the monks , but it did not silence all their criticisms . |
| 7 | The difficulty about regarding this as the whole story , however , is that the court does not seem to have been in doubt that the purpose of the additional charges was to prevent the release of the applicants , but it did not regard this as conclusive . |
| 8 | This may have been Nicholas 's opinion of himself , but it did not affect many of his actions . |
| 9 | But it did not get any better . |
| 10 | But it did not garner any reductions in repayments due . |
| 11 | But it did not take many weeks of the Lancashire cotton famine ( due to the interruption of raw material supplies by the American Civil War ) to reduce even such a family to charity . |
| 12 | But it did not provide enough segregated schools and enough women teachers to educate the girls separately from the boys in all cases , and it did not have the strength to insist that girls should be educated in mixed schools by male teachers : most Libyan parents would have objected strongly to laws compelling mixed education . |
| 13 | But it did n't last more than a year . |
| 14 | The success of the tour made it less difficult to tell herself that this was what she wanted , but it did n't stop those sudden down-swings when she was swept by a longing so total that it was like a haemorrhage of the soul . |
| 15 | But it did n't do any good , the next morning she was smoking in the bathroom . |
| 16 | Then we 've done our work , I would say that my average of ten company representatives went over , perhaps two would find it was useful , useful fact finding mission , but it did n't achieve much , two would click instantly and have orders while they 're there , and the remainder would over the period of six or nine months later , if they worked at it , gain orders or perhaps , perhaps more importantly agents or distributors to sell their products for them in that country . |
| 17 | The exhibition 's open to all , but it did n't take much to persuade Scotland Today 's Patsi MacKenzie to wander along for a preview . |
| 18 | M is for medicine which the doctor gave her , but it did n't help any . |
| 19 | But it did n't happen that way . |