Example sentences of "it does [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The 8th will live in my mind forever , I do n't know whether it does Nick 's .
2 However , as a rough guide , it feels slightly more Gibson-like than it does Fenderish , if that helps .
3 And it does kind of stand in my way because , for one thing , there will never be a greater guitar player than Jimi Hendrix , as long as people can remember that name .
4 Turn it on , see what it does Willie .
5 Yeah it does Steve .
6 Yes it does Sheila mm .
7 The continuum of sexual threat and violence of which rape is one extreme , pervades the movies as it does life , but rarely takes centre stage .
8 Like word processors , however , it 's not so much what a spreadsheet can do in common with others , but what it does that others ca n't , and how it does things that make one stand out from another .
9 It does things to the world , and so do I ; we should both be feared .
10 I 'll tell you what it does comrades , it kicks 'em right in the teeth .
11 Ipswich Airport is due to close , and even before it does lack of facilities at the grass airfield are causing problems for European industrialists planning to open plants in the area .
12 One other factor influences weeding policy , as it does selection policy .
13 containing as it does Professor Hoskins ' evocative explanation of the piece of the English landscape visible from the window of his study in Oxfordshire .
14 What , it does Ma , ma just killed a man , I was given him some
15 my Lord we se , I do n't think that 's true because what we 're saying and if and I believe it does flair from our keepers that erm we have to prove we 've got to prove that these restrictions would of lead to category of business from what the
16 J R Hall ( Points of View , 12 February ) is right to suggest that British Rail would be able to make a profit if the Government took full responsibility for funding the provision and maintenance of railway infrastructure as it does roads .
17 P.S If this letter does nt get there I 'm gon na give up , so if it does will someone acknowledge it so I know it has'nt been a waste of time .
18 It does sir yes .
19 Well basically I think this fight , his chance is he 'll probably win , but this fight is a bit of a joke ; it does boxing no good whatsoever .
20 I 'm just not happy about it at all , the match should never have been sanctioned , and like I said , it does boxing 's reputation no good whatsoever .
21 Crime and Punishment naturalizes the mystic brazenness of Sonya 's statement , as it does Porfiry 's ‘ You ca n't get on without us ' .
22 In other respects , Imagining Women does well by the visual image , including as it does sections on popular television , film and pornography .
23 It does mean collect , sort of , er , you 're talking to me everybody , it does sort of mean collect , anybody else ?
24 It , it does sort of organise itself .
25 ‘ Yes , it does interest me , ’ Corbett replied tersely .
26 These show that it takes Dagenham nearly twice as long to produce a Sierra car as it does Ford 's Genk plant in Belgium .
27 But if it sometimes seems to be saying , on Salim 's behalf , that race or kinship wins , it is also the case that it is full of losers , that it has a lively feeling for the Africans of market and bush , and for their African troubles , and for the situation of Salim as someone evolved or emerged from a tribal narrowness to an experience of sexual love which is liberating and dramatic , and that it does justice to Metty 's last state , left behind in the dangerous town at the bend in the river .
28 It does justice neither to Henry 's interest in literature nor to Eleanor 's own personality .
29 It does justice to the belief that the teaching activities of an institution of higher education are proper matters for collective responsibility .
30 The noisome dust-heaps represent enormous wealth , and the worship of wealth animates the Veneering circle with its traffic in shares , as it does Silas Wegg secretly investigating the dust-heaps , and even affects Bella Wilfer , who has to learn better before her marriage to the heir .
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