Example sentences of "it do the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has it done the same to you ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If you promise not to tell anyone , ’ Margaret said , when she finally got to see a doctor , ‘ I nearly had it done the old way , you know , with a knitting needle , then I lost my nerve . ’ |
| 3 | You can take your guitar to a guitar shop and anyone can re-fret it , but to get it done the way you want it is very , very important . |
| 4 | Has it done the mountaineering one ? |
| 5 | But if he 'll get it done , he 'll get it done the next it 's one less thing . |
| 6 | Do n't force it — let it do the work . |
| 7 | The main question to ask about any material is : does it do the job it was intended to do with the audience it was made for ? |
| 8 | But the question is where will it do the greatest good … in Bosnia where it may not reach the people it 's meant for , or in Croatia where it probably will . |
| 9 | Will it , can it do the background noise ? |
| 10 | I s I , I never really played with Windows , I just installed it to do the job of running this one application and then left it alone . |
| 11 | It has done its best , but it does not have the tools to enable it to do the job . |
| 12 | the pink bits the bit that fits onto ridge , they 've got three screws in each piece but they only need two to hold them , so I 've taken the centre one out of each one and used it to do the |
| 13 | There was a nasty strain of it doing the rounds at the moment , and she did n't sound that unwell now . |
| 14 | Because I 've had enough of it all my life what with one thing and another , and what I mean is , I do n't want you getting yourself into trouble trying to mind my back when I 'm OK really , and you 'll just land yourself in it doing the unnecessary . ’ |
| 15 | is n't it doing the washing and ironing and ye Oh , I ho I hope everybody proves you wrong Dennis and the phone |
| 16 | I could call it Do The Right Emo or Do The Emo Thing . |
| 17 | It did the same again in January 1985 ; when the pound fell to $1.12 banks were instructed to raise interest rates by 1.5 per cent . |
| 18 | And so it did the other night , when I heard two undergrads , giving a list of pleasures which were ( a ) Nazi , ( b ) leading to homosexuality . |
| 19 | Though Lewis is said to have found the task of writing these letters morally exhausting — entailing as it did the ceaseless identification of himself with the malign and diabolical point of view — their great strength is that , rather like a dramatic monologue by Browning , they reveal the speaker without succumbing to his terrible outlook . |
| 20 | It did the trick . |
| 21 | Through the late Seventies , black America was noted for cultural solidarity of impressive dimensions a shared drive for rights and representation which powered art and music no less than it did the Civil Rights movement . |
| 22 | And apparently they believed it , as it did the trick . |
| 23 | Of course , the price and income range varied , and so with it did the ‘ life-style ’ — a term for which the Fifties were still groping . |
| 24 | A big backdrop to the stage with light concentrated on it did the rest . |
| 25 | If it did the yield at yesterday 's 84p , down 5p , would be 6.3 p.c. and the multiple about 30 . |
| 26 | The development path taken by the northern countries , involving as it did the rapid and large scale expansion of the manufacturing and service sectors and the absorption of ‘ surplus ’ rural labour , is not an option available to the majority of southern countries . |
| 27 | It did the rector 's heart good to see a man among his small flock , and he hoped that others might follow his example . |
| 28 | It did the work of a person in a factory occupation such as loading sacks onto a pallet , but then that person cost only an average of £1300 per annum to employ . |
| 29 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 30 | I 'm sure he would n't have liked the way we communally beheaded him but it did the job . |