Example sentences of "[coord] it do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it does that because a wind has sprung up , you ca n't see it but you can observe its effect . |
| 2 | Being submissive is the co point where what happens when you 're submissive you keep it inside you do n't feel you 're worthy enough or you have n't got you have n't got the self esteem to rate yourself as being able to have what it is that you want , so you keep it inside and you do n't say anything and then you walk away should 've said this and should 've said that and all it does is eat away at you and it does that to you physically as well I mean scientific tests are already showing now that physically these sort of things you do if often be submissive enough what that does it pretty much helps helps you to eat your body up from the inside and causes physical problems which pretty much do that anyway . |
| 3 | Marriage is one of the elements which leads to the formation and the maintenance of the inequality between classes and it does this at the expense of women . |
| 4 | The buxom , ginger-haired woman also had a shady past , and it did little to help the poor woman 's image when it was resurrected by two regular carmen . |
| 5 | It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with . |
| 6 | But it does much to dispel the prevailing confusion and , in our opinion , constitutes one of the most important treatments of the subject to date . |
| 7 | Of course , understanding the need for the cuts is one thing , but it does little to mitigate the pain felt by those affected . |
| 8 | Orton 's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality — but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation . |
| 9 | But it does this by denying it any moral status at all . |
| 10 | Like most snakes it can disarticulate its lower jaw from its upper when confronted with a particularly large meal , but it does more than that . |
| 11 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 12 | by the atmosphere — but it does more — |
| 13 | She got a handkerchief from somewhere , and wiped herself , but it did little good . |
| 14 | He had been carrying his umbrella but it did little to protect him . |
| 15 | The singing , the pomp and the pageantry may have galvanised Welsh emotions , but it did little for their skills or tactical awareness . |
| 16 | Edward 's diplomatic achievement in Flanders was substantial , but it did little immediately to improve his position . |
| 17 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |
| 18 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 19 | Fran jerked her arm away but it did little to loosen the crushing grip of his powerful fingers . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was in deference to her sensibilities that he had slipped on a robe , but it did less to conceal the perfection of his body than to hint tantalisingly at it . |
| 21 | The action of the Parliamentary Party was very embarrassing for the Labour Ministers , who of course could not join their colleagues in the opposition lobby ; but it did more than anything else in wartime to identify the Labour Party with the widespread popular desire for social reform in the post-war world . |