Example sentences of "[noun sg] did it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What kind of circulation did it have ? |
| 2 | English department did it last term . |
| 3 | Only what good did it do to admit it ? |
| 4 | In contrast to these reductions in the rate of stroke , the effect on heart attacks was much less : only in the systolic hypertension in the elderly programme did it achieve significance . |
| 5 | So obsessed was he with Mary 's charm and the Casket Letters , that it did not occur to him to ask the much more prosaic but crucially important question : what effect did it have on her kingdom , in this age of religious and political upheaval and trauma , to be saddled with a ruler who shut herself off from reality whenever reality became difficult ? |
| 6 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 7 | What sort of effect did it have on you that kind of directness ? |
| 8 | What effect did it have on his private life ? |
| 9 | Only in winter did it snap their necks to gorge upon their warm sap . |
| 10 | Why when he had lavished so much care and time , not to mention a medium-sized fortune on this aeroplane did it let him down so utterly ? |
| 11 | The rise of the Living Church , which itself soon split into various groups , allowed the party to divide and rule ; at no point did it commit itself unconditionally to any sect . |
| 12 | To Hank 's intense relief , at no point did it occur to Boyd to inquire what the book was about . |
| 13 | So at what point did it cease to be so ? |
| 14 | What difference did it make , if you were a woman ? |
| 15 | What difference did it make to your work that you 'd come from outside the television industry ? |
| 16 | He already hated her , so what difference did it make ? |
| 17 | What difference did it make ? |
| 18 | But what difference did it make . |
| 19 | Such was the feeling Joss Barnet had aroused in her , that not for one moment did it occur to her to blame him for anything . |
| 20 | Not until the evening did it come into its own , with the opening of its restaurants . |
| 21 | What sort of a person did it make Alain when he would behave like that because he had suffered a frustrating evening . |
| 22 | What chance did it stand ? |
| 23 | So actually seeing though first time , how much of a shock did it come to you , or was it just or was it expected ? |
| 24 | When Gary Mackay scored that legendary goal for Scotland against Bulgaria , how big of an inroad did it make into the Republic 's capital of Jammy Breaks ? |
| 25 | which finger did it bite , this little finger on my right |
| 26 | It was very basic indeed , and only by dint of preparation for the royal visitor did it have any carpeting on the stairs . |
| 27 | What popular impact did it have ? |
| 28 | Only in the last months of her life did it appear that her policy might not be sustained , because of the changed situation in England and France . |
| 29 | In no sense did it correspond to the experience of student activism that so many of my generation were to go through elsewhere over the next few years . |
| 30 | What royalty did it belong to ? |