Example sentences of "[conj] it do [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the Rover was about thirty years old ( 'and that 's a damn sight younger than I am' ) and that it did only sixteen miles to the gallon . |
| 2 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 3 | They say lightning never strikes twice but it does when old Shallot 's around . |
| 4 | The colour of his face always reddens just as it does when fat Margot , the launderess , who keeps me supplied with cups of sack , bends and dips to provide me with a generous view of the most famous cleavage in all of Surrey . ) |
| 5 | Gordon Williamson 's Aces of the Reich is an excellent example of the latter type of book , including as it does over 100 biographies of Third Reich personalities who made their mark , not in politics or high command , but up at the ‘ sharp end ’ . |
| 6 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 7 | By selling 12 times as much wine as it did only five years ago , Australia outsells the US , and with the exchange rate currently working in our favour , prices are getting cheaper all the time . |
| 8 | It began to pick up speed and as it did so larger fireworks were detonated , so that showers of sparks and clouds of coloured smoke trailed behind like a peacock 's tail , green and red and blue . |