Example sentences of "it [vb past] [not/n't] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it did not do was encourage people to discriminate between rival politicians and parties . |
| 2 | Rovers enjoyed a heavy advantage in penalties before half-time but it did not do them a lot of good . |
| 3 | That it did not do so may in part be due to the late H.H. Mayberry , from Marshall County , Tennessee , who in the early 1880s paid a stranger from Nova Scotia $36 ( about $800 in today 's money ) for four of the goats on the strength of their ‘ strange fits or fainting spells , the like of which had never been seen before ’ . |
| 4 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |
| 5 | It did not do as much for his career as Midnight Cowboy did for Jon Voight . |
| 6 | It is a sign of the times that Mr Franco 's plan is being praised more for what it did not do than what it did . |
| 7 | The United States would be in violation of its commitments to the parties if it did not do so , but would be in violation of general international law with respect to third parties . |
| 8 | It did not do justice to the biblical doctrine of atonement . |
| 9 | It said nothing about educational or cultural co-operation , it did not do anything to bring EMU nearer ( that was left to the Delors Plan ) and it effectively left foreign policy co-operation in government hands . |
| 10 | It did not do so , but — with minimal discussion of the implications — it enacted ( in s.6(c) ) that nothing in the foregoing sections restricted liability for contempt of court ‘ in respect of conduct intended to impede or prejudice the administration of justice . ’ |
| 11 | But it did not do so . |
| 12 | But it did not do to use all one 's pieces at once . |
| 13 | But er it did not do bad , got a fair good picture with it . |
| 14 | The chairman called on the Department to take action about those complaints because if it did not do so there would be little industry left to take action about . |
| 15 | If it did not do so , they threatened to suspend trade agreements with Yugoslavia , and immediately to restore them with those individual republics which agreed to the plan — in effect to recognize their independence . |
| 16 | ‘ It did not do anything for manufacturing investment . |
| 17 | It did not do anything for pensioners . ’ |
| 18 | It did n't do her any good at all . |
| 19 | A strategy formally identical to Grudger was entered in Axelrod 's tournament under the name of Friedman , and it did n't do particularly well . |
| 20 | ‘ My GP prescribed an oral antibiotic which I took for five months , but it did n't do anything . |
| 21 | To be honest it did n't do much to encourage me to live for Jesus and I do n't think it did anything at all for my non-Christian friends . |
| 22 | Anyway , I do know they hung Him up on the cross so it did n't do Him a lot of good . |
| 23 | They killed him with kindness , and it did n't do Blackburn much good either . |
| 24 | Well , it did n't do them much good May Lee came and rescued me In fact she seized me by the arm ‘ Well ? ’ she said |
| 25 | ‘ It did n't do any harm , ’ said he . |
| 26 | And it did n't do any harm at all , that lump . |
| 27 | Er , I actually had two stillborn babies , one one year after each other and they put me on Valium and it did n't do me any good at all ! |
| 28 | But thank goodness it did n't do me no permanent harm . |
| 29 | It did n't do him a lot of good in the early er in the early days , but er it did stand him in good stead later of course because he became er er a full-time official o of the er Notts area N U M. |
| 30 | When I normally do it , and it did n't do what it normally does . |