Example sentences of "do it [vb infin] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Never again did it match that apex of prosperity that it reached during the brief nine years that Shah Jehan ruled from the Red Fort .
2 Why — why — why ? she had asked herself over and over again , why did it end that way ?
3 They were sitting on the terrace outside her curved stables-cottage , watching the sun go down over Capability Brown 's vista , uninterrupted because of the ha-ha ( however did it get that name ? ) — and they were talking , over glasses of wine , about poetry .
4 Did this modernism , in Jürgen Habermas 's terms , deepen and extend the rationalist Enlightenment project , or did it undermine that project ?
5 I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that
6 yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ?
7 Nor does it mean that failure to achieve total abstinence from all potentially mood-altering substances and behaviours means that one can not achieve a considerable measure of recovery .
8 Does it mean that county and district have got to sign up for it ?
9 Does it follow that Citizen Kane is seeking the BS5750 business accreditation for playing and performances ?
10 Okay , that 's the question is why , why does it have that structure ?
11 Does it , does it act that question , does it act in the modern way and if it does how much does it act in the modern way .
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