Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the other thing — now I think about it do n't call Clare Hall in Matson . |
| 2 | He knew how banal the question was as soon as he had asked it , but it did not affect Surere 's mood . |
| 3 | It did not suggest Mr Beregovoy was involved . |
| 4 | It did not strike Nicandra as odd that last night 's dinner dishes were still lying under the water into which flakes of soapsuds and hair were falling . |
| 5 | It did not deter Aunt Florence . |
| 6 | It did not bother Mr Premadasa that he was disliked by most politicians , including many in his own party . |
| 7 | France had never at heart been enthusiastic about the EDC , regarding it at a minimum as perhaps a lesser evil : fundamentally , it did not want West German rearmament . |
| 8 | A JEWISH group that helped about 80 Bosnian mostly Muslim refugees fly to Israel yesterday says the Palestine Liberation Organisation made a last-minute bid to prevent the flight because it did not want Israel to look good . |
| 9 | Whatever one 's interpretation of these events , however , attempts to explain away the chronological oddity of the attack on Hastings should not be allowed to obscure the fact that in practice it did not stop Richard taking control of the duke of York . |
| 10 | Whatever one 's interpretation of these events , however , attempts to explain away the chronological oddity of the attack on Hastings should not be allowed to obscure the fact that in practice it did not stop Richard taking control of the duke of York . |
| 11 | Although this meant the withdrawal of the Prussian garrison , it did not give Napoleon III the territory he had sought , and with it the frontier rectification in France 's favour . |
| 12 | She was suffused with indignation , but it did not appear Shildon had taken anything and the more urgent matter was to get help for Tavett . |
| 13 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |
| 14 | It could be argued that the west lost the golden opportunity to contribute to the peaceful solution of the Balkan crisis because it did not de-recognise Yugoslavia ( and , with it , outlaw the Yugoslav army ) , while recognising all the six former Yugoslav republics before the war started in earnest . |
| 15 | In particular , it did not prevent Robert Hersant from creating , from 1950 and from nothing , what became by the 1980S France 's biggest newspaper publishing group -over 40 titles totalling over one quarter of the circulation of the regional dailies and over a third ( 38 per cent ( of the national daily press . |
| 16 | The September night was hot and humid but it did not perturb Constance as she struggled through the crowds of noisy , gesticulating passengers purposefully carrying cardboard boxes , mattresses and crates of chickens down the long platform . |
| 17 | She writes that it was ‘ one of the best , but it did not suit John , as he was accustomed to follow his whims , and invent or discover for himself , and therefore did not like the regimentation of doing things at a given time . |
| 18 | It did not please John at all . |
| 19 | Britain 's previously firm stand against tear-gas was significantly undermined by a government statement in 1970 that it did not consider CS and similar gases to be covered by the Protocol . |
| 20 | The transition from Empire to Commonwealth was remarkably successful , but it did not strengthen Britain as had been hoped . |
| 21 | Although the French public was susceptible to patriotic rhetoric and to comforting illusions about France 's place in the world , it did not share de Gaulle 's sense of priorities . |
| 22 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 23 | The tone was casual but it did not deceive Iris . |
| 24 | It did not deceive Theda . |
| 25 | It did not surprise Hugh to see that the stack had been scattered abroad from the original untidy pile dumped thus , and most of the seasoned timber removed , leaving the flattened bushes plain to be seen . |
| 26 | It did not escape Sarah 's notice that Michael was treated as the head of the family and her husband relegated to second position . |
| 27 | But service with Mr Deng in Taihang does not necessarily provide protection from purge ; it did not help Zhao Ziyang , the former prime minister and party leader . |
| 28 | It did not take Naylor Massingham to tell her . |
| 29 | It did not take Hugo long to decide that the boy was wilful : he could learn , he just did not want to . |
| 30 | It did not take Wigg much time to decide that he had been misled , although a fair-minded examination of the facts from the Hansard of the day proved no such thing . |