Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly summing up , there seems to be little doubt that Mozart distinguished dots and strokes , and while he was nonchalant about the graphic shapes where it mattered little , he distinguished the signs with deliberation where it did matter . |
| 2 | Where it did occur , it helped improve project design and correct local misconceptions of investments and their impact , " the report says . |
| 3 | Blast , I 'd forgotten all about that little oddity , although it did give me pause at the time . |
| 4 | A police spokesman said the house , in Old Road , was up for sale and was unoccupied , although it did contain some furniture . |
| 5 | In reality it was uncompromisingly Protestant in doctrine , although it did reflect both Lutheran and Reformed teachings , and was sometimes deliberately ambiguous in its theology . |
| 6 | One recent population study found that depression did not precede the eating disorder , although it did correlate with onset . |
| 7 | The trem performs all the current tricks , although it did suffer a little from tuning instability at first . |
| 8 | The third , in an article on " Obsolescent languages " ( N.C. Dorian ) , did not , although it did refer the reader to the main entry on " Bilingualism " ( K. Hakuta ) . |
| 9 | Even the original Tele guitar was designed to have some bass-playing ability , and as a consequence was not wired as it is today , although it did possess the customary three-way selector switch . |
| 10 | Hence Juice was probably not as big a box-office success as it might have been , although it did make money . |
| 11 | They found that , although it did make a difference in a few cases , most babies got enough iron from solid food to make up for any loss through drinking cow 's milk . |
| 12 | Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands . |
| 13 | Matters did not improve when they got to Glenelg and found an appalling inn — although it did draw from Johnson one of his best remarks of the entire tour . |
| 14 | My head did n't hurt at all , although it did feel a bit light . |
| 15 | And by this we mean in terms of things like the cost of fuel , although it did go up again in nineteen seventy nine , but also with respect to new services being offered . |
| 16 | EWM has no outlets overseas , although it did attempt a joint venture in the US . |
| 17 | Although it did envisage some mergers with universities , the emphasis throughout was very much on strengthening the public sector of higher education . |
| 18 | That ‘ event ’ had little to do with science although it did provide us with one or two technological tales , albeit mostly grim ones . |
| 19 | The statement emphasised that the Black Sea Fleet , comprising some 45 warships and 300 smaller vessels , was not considered to be part of the strategic forces , although it did have nuclear capability . |
| 20 | For example , de Gaulle 's December 1944 meeting with Stalin , which led to the signing of a Franco-Soviet pact , did not bring any substantial diplomatic advantage to France ( although it did have favourable domestic repercussions ) . |
| 21 | If WEU had a role , it was to ensure the closest possible cooperation within NATO , and although it did play a limited role in the Saar settlement , it remained essentially a paper organisation . |
| 22 | By an almost unbelievable contrast , the summit was not even mentioned on the main 8 pm television news in France ( Antenne 2 ) , although it did get a ten second slot as the tenth item on the midnight news bulletin . |
| 23 | The aviation business suffered from depressed trading conditions in the industry , although it did win several valuable new contracts . |
| 24 | The film was a disappointment , although it did win the Golden Gate Award at the 1966 San Francisco Festival , as well as winning Ken Thorne an Oscar for Best Music Adaptation . |
| 25 | It was superbly performed and I found it enjoyable , although it did seem to hark back to an earlier period of American modern dance . |
| 26 | For example , " tailoring " , mostly done by men , is usually classified as a skilled trade whereas " dressmaking " , done by women , is usually not , although it did require a formal training . |
| 27 | It was still very active a fed on live foods , although it did lose a lot of weight . |
| 28 | That it did stand is just as well for the connections of Aboyeur , who were reported to have won £40,000 in bets on the horse . |
| 29 | Were she to believe that it did matter , she would be finished . |
| 30 | Yes it 's funny to think of hens having feelings but I suppose being cooped up like that it did affect them . |