Example sentences of "what it [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it did mean was that the presence of the killer pack effectively cut off that particular escape route if it were needed . |
| 2 | What it did do was confer material benefits , which were desperately needed at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 3 | What it did do , however , was to herald the potential use of sex crime allied to other explicitly sexual gossip , photographs of topless models and so on to become close to a ‘ soft porn package ’ which was its strategy in the ensuing circulation warfare . |
| 4 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 5 | Such an unsettled lifestyle made it difficult for Pauline to accumulate much in the way of household possessions , but what it did give her was a very cosmopolitan view . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose in a way that 's what it did feel like . |
| 7 | What it did make possible was stalemate ; and that was what happened in the 1540s . |
| 8 | What it did exercise was hegemony , and what it increasingly determined was policy . |
| 9 | What it did prove , emphatically , is that you can buy a car which will out-handle any Ferrari , out-accelerate the most powerful Porsche to way past licence-losing speed and provide more safe fun than anyone who has n't driven one could possibly imagine . |
| 10 | What it did have in mind is not clear . |
| 11 | it is hard to see what it did imply ! ) , and that all must make sacrifices . |