Example sentences of "it do n't [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
2 | Kinane , who was having his first Arc ride , said : ‘ I had quickened past Behera when Carroll House hung across and it did n't affect the result . |
3 | It did n't emphasize the internationalism , it homed in on what it — correctly-saw as a Fleet Street preoccupation . |
4 | It did well , in a truncated version , but had cost so much that it did n't earn the studio a profit , and consequently Thalberg fired the profligate Stroheim during the filming of Merry-Go-Round . |
5 | Above the Company uniform her waves of lustrous brown hair were pinned back from her face but it did n't hide the fact that she was also some kind of tower . |
6 | It nicked a lung and probably cracked a rib , but it did n't open the abdomen . |
7 | Even if it did n't rain the jacket would help keep out the cold night wind . |
8 | Yet he knew , at least in this he was n't alone : the feeling , if it did n't pervade the camp , certainly pervaded his section . |
9 | SAG admits that it did n't anticipate the difficulty it would face convincing vendors to pick up its technology . |
10 | NOT only does the woman in the new Spennymoor town centre sculpture look like she 's sitting on the toilet , and the greyhound look like a ferret or a sausage , someone said but when they went to erect the blessed thing last week it did n't fit the space available . |
11 | It did n't improve the band 's pledge to give value for money . |
12 | That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board ! |
13 | Pretty deep there ; it 's a wonder it did n't slice the top of his head off . |
14 | Even if that had happened , it did n't justify the violence of Steen 's attempts to get Jacqui off his back . |
15 | She might be able to convince herself that the momentary flash of madness she 'd experienced , in thinking that she was falling in love with Luke Calder , was merely the result of stress , but it did n't change the fact that she was greatly attracted to him , and that was where the true danger lay . |
16 | But it was only a detail , and it did n't alter the fact that no one but Ivy could have done it . |
17 | It did n't reach the bottom erm , |
18 | Whatever it was , it did n't bear the hallmark of life in Knockglen . |
19 | The Professional Boxers ' Association would try er , many years ago , and it did n't have the support of people like the G M B and the S P F. |
20 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
21 | The council says it did n't renovate the cottage because it was n't an emergency situation . |
22 | Her skin was tight across her ivory face and although one suspected that the tautness was maintained by a beauty parlour , it did n't lessen the harmony of the face , in which brown eyes seemed bigger than they really were , like a sun at sunset . |
23 | There was genetic inheritance , of course , and Paul was … well … crude , like all boys , but it did n't work the way Omi was suggesting , nothing like it . |
24 | Not that it did n't work the way we did it , but it worked in a different way . ’ |
25 | Well , she knew that already but it did n't balm the pain . |
26 | I 'm surprised it did n't take the whole of the top of your head off ! ’ |
27 | It did n't take the man long . |
28 | It did n't take the Brain of Britain to deduce that he had known , somehow , that she had drugged his coffee , and full marks to his rapier mind — he had turned the tables , or rather the mugs , very neatly . |
29 | Certainly , in her classroom , sex was the topic on which she knew their vocabulary to be widest , in spite of the fact that it did n't receive the level of attention she insisted they devote to the subjects on the curriculum . |
30 | It did n't occupy the centre of the room , however . |