Example sentences of "do it [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did it arrive complete with stripes when its ancestors moved north ? ( right ) . |
| 2 | ’ We did it to give some of the great youngsters a chance ’ |
| 3 | Nor did it seem apparent to all that the war fought at sea , the damage which might be inflicted upon enemy vessels and morale , and the consequences which victory at sea could have for those who lived in areas close to coasts , were all part of a wider war which could not be restricted to the fighting on land . |
| 4 | Not only did it win 13 of the 14 constituency seats ( 92.9% ) : it managed to do so on an average constituency vote of no more than 43.5% , which was further reduced by the usual leakage to a list vote of 41.8% . |
| 5 | He pointed out that the army version of the shooting prompted the questions : Why , if the army believed that it had caught three terrorists , did it let all of them escape ? |
| 6 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 7 | I think this happened in when did it happen this in between and Jericho , somewhere around that region , where was it |
| 8 | Only in retrospect , after our detailed research , did it become clear to anyone what had transpired in GPs ' surgeries throughout Wirral in 1982–4 . |
| 9 | When , I wonder , did it become fashionable for politicians to talk not about the world but about the planet ? |
| 10 | but did it look authentic with the thing , I mean not to the extent of |
| 11 | Establish a movement — do it long enough for the audience to get hold of it . |
| 12 | For not only does it contain one of the largest conurbations outside London , but it also includes some thinly populated territory as well as smaller towns and rural districts . |
| 13 | What does it feel like for the select band of lay students ? , a mother and trained nurse who commutes daily from Stockton on Tees , says : ‘ Ushaw 's students have made us feel very welcome . |
| 14 | The central question , however , is : what does it feel like to be a humanities student ? |
| 15 | At least seventy five percent you can work out well what have we got we got an acid or a base or a carbonate or what , and does it fit any of the I mean there are n't many patterns , there 's metal acid , what does that give ? |
| 16 | Does it move freely or , when fully open , does it get stuck in the hook ? |
| 17 | ‘ Mildred , ’ said Miss Hardbroom heavily , ‘ does it seem likely to you that I would be standing here in the middle of a raging inferno , casually rounding up all you girls ? ’ |
| 18 | It does not explain the triggering sensation and altered function of the gut , nor does it seem important in those with IBS symptoms who do not seek medical care . |
| 19 | Cos up in the , the erm paper shop they got somebody in and she does it like special for p for pensioners . |
| 20 | Carl , at No. 38 with Does It Feel Good To You , only realised he was being spied on by the law when police pulled him up in his car . |
| 21 | Oop , what does it say that on the back for ? |
| 22 | Does it say that on your brand new ? |
| 23 | is that a four to eight , O drive as well , does it say four to eight games ? |
| 24 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
| 25 | ‘ Well for one thing , does it sound likely to you that he 'd make up something so complicated ? ’ |
| 26 | Does it sound true for you ? ’ |
| 27 | Does it look good on . |
| 28 | Fluoride can be harmful ; the key question is , at what concentrations does it become toxic in the body ? |
| 29 | At what wind speed does it become unsafe for novice paraglider pilots to fly ? |
| 30 | FG : How long does it take each of you to complete a picture ? |