Example sentences of "did it [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Coverage failed to highlight the wrongful arrests of blacks or excessive use of force by the police ; nor did it adequately convey the extent of pro-social activity engaged in by black ‘ counter-rioters ’ , such as helping the wounded or assisting the emergency services .
2 Not only did it not find the islands but it could n't find the way home .
3 Did it not know the truth ?
4 If Parliament had intended that , why did it not call the Act the ‘ Depraving and Corrupting Publications Act ’ ?
5 They disagree strongly about its consequences : was it a watershed in British industrial relations , as some Communist writers would have us believe , or did it barely change the course of TUC and trade union policy , as Gordon Phillips has argued ?
6 Why , in all the hundreds of millions of years since its ancestors first evolved a pinhole eye , did it never discover the principle of the lens ?
7 Nor did it necessarily require the Great Powers to act as the guarantors of the regime established .
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