Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it did [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , they had just finished a three month study , half funded by the hospital ‘ at a time when it did n't have a penny ’ to assess bed blocking on one medical/geriatric ward that had particular problems . |
| 2 | There is certainly a difficulty in understanding how Israel can be expected to have known anything from primeval times , when it did not exist , but there is no doubt that we have here a parallelism of increasing precision . |
| 3 | But it did , just my , my quick sieve every time we got these there always appeared to be a slot where it did n't seem to me to be worth being open and and operating |
| 4 | In at least one such area where it did eventually intrude , the original ‘ rotten apple ’ is believed to have been a government agent . |
| 5 | If the teacher seemed quite happy with the episode involved , then in discussion after the lesson the observer can try to gather how the teacher feels about the intended pattern of behaviour , why it did not occur , and what can be done . |
| 6 | Its vast size probably explains why it did not sell and , as it cluttered up his hallway for some time afterwards , Minton later gave it to the Royal College student and animal illustrator John Norris Wood . |
| 7 | On the same theme , the UK party made plain in a pre-European election statement why it did not like the Community . |
| 8 | So far , the ministry has chosen not to explain why it did not act over this matter , to admit that it made a mistake , and to fully compensate all those who have suffered trauma and considerable financial losses as a result of its negligence . |
| 9 | They state that crime did not rise then , and they ask why it did not rise then . |
| 10 | I do n't really care why it did n't go well . |
| 11 | you 're , you 're absolutely right , I 'm afraid in , in erm I , I , re remember seeing that discrepancy and I 'm not quite sure why it did n't get into my notes |
| 12 | I ca n't think why it did n't occur to me at the time . |
| 13 | I ca n't think why it did n't occur to me before . ’ |
| 14 | We wanted very much erm to help teachers to work from circuit diagrams and to build the electronics , and then , as we said , at least to worry about why it did n't work and try several tests before giving up completely . |
| 15 | Since the radical reform could happen in the uncollectivist and weakly welfarist USA as well as in the collectivist and welfarist Italy , the obvious question to ask is why it did n't happen elsewhere in Europe . |
| 16 | It explained mathematically why the electron had spin 1/2 , that is , why it did n't look the same if you turned it through only one complete revolution , but did if you turned it through two revolutions . |