Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it did n't overly worry him . |
| 2 | He bought four rounds of double scotches last night and it did n't even make a hole in what he 'd got . ’ |
| 3 | My pleasure at the success of the operation turned a bit sour when the others calmly walked up the road and photographed the animal with standard lenses — and it did n't even bother getting up . |
| 4 | last night actually and it did n't exactly help , well , it 's a long trip up here , longer than I expected and I did n't |
| 5 | And it did n't much matter because , the way he had it planned , she was n't going to be in any position to try anything . |
| 6 | no that 's right , yeah , I mean , I , I 've said it , I do n't care , but er I 've said in the past that er , I think some of the reason me and Ann split up was , I mean she always used to say I never treated her right and all things like that , I did you know , and I do care for her , but a lot of the things was I never showed it because erm if anything bothered me I never know it showed and it did n't bloody bother me because I 'd resolved myself after Julie that I 'd never let anything bother me again |
| 7 | Well , that 's probably right erm I can just about remember it and you know as a child , and it did n't really sink in , it was some years afterwards before it actually sank in exactly what had been going on |
| 8 | We met in the odd foursome and it did n't really work out . |
| 9 | Whereupon , one of the assembled journalists — and it did not exactly endear him to his photographic colleagues — started to ask Keenan about the famous remark he made after his release — the one about drinking all the Guinness in Ireland and making love to all the women in Ireland . |
| 10 | The decline of the Hellenistic world left Alexandria isolated , and it did not again become a great cosmopolitan city until the nineteenth century when its resurrection was built on the profits of cotton . |
| 11 | Today he was wearing long trousers and a very remarkable jacket , and it did not even matter that his shoes were too small for his feet or that the safety-pin at his throat was digging into his flesh . |
| 12 | The animal was a grey , sturdy and broad-chested , stable under almost any conditions , and it did not even check pace as it charged through the young trees which obstructed its path . |
| 13 | In the last years of the Soviet Union and in the new republics the militia found itself dealing with a level of public demonstration — and sometimes disorder — of which it had no previous experience , and it did not always deal efficiently with them . |
| 14 | This form of life was shared by the sixth forms of grammar schools and the universities to which their students proceeded , and it did not greatly differ whether the frame of reference was ‘ Cambridge ’ or ‘ Oxford ’ , or to import an Arnoldian variation on this model , Hebraic or Hellenic , directed towards ‘ criticism ’ or ‘ appreciation ’ . |