Example sentences of "do [adv] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system . |
| 2 | The subterranean passage view offers a plausible account of how the monsters could feed , but unfortunately in doing so it destroys another theory about ‘ Nessie ’ , which is that the animal is a relic of the dinosaur age , possibly a plesiosaur . |
| 3 | I said well I said that was the twenty first of it should have gone on the eleventh see but it did n't it go twenty first . |
| 4 | Did n't it smell odd ? |
| 5 | Did n't it have this sort of political pattern to it |
| 6 | ‘ Did n't it seem that way to you ? ’ |
| 7 | Yeah it do n't it make much odds though |
| 8 | so I said , she 's the same age as me , she said god , she looked much older than you I said yeah I know , I says it cheers you up doing surgery do n't it seeing all these people that look terrible for their age , so she says well I though she looked older than me , I says yes she does look older , I do n't have , I do n't know how old Sue is , I think she 's forty , I think she 's forty , but this woman she 's got long hair |
| 9 | Yet before it does so it destroys much else , and the devastation at the end of King Lear is a sufficient proof of the destructiveness of hypocrisy , once it is believed , Trusting hypocrites such as these is like offering oneself as a test-bed for the cultivation of some deadly bacillus . |
| 10 | Although Mary very rarely cooks trout , when she does so it tastes delicious . |
| 11 | ‘ Does n't it smell good ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Paranoid about anything in particular , or does n't it make any difference ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Does n't it feel better ? ’ he husked . |
| 14 | Does n't it seem strange to think about it ? |
| 15 | ‘ Does n't it seem awful , Mum , gas masks for babies ? ’ |
| 16 | I like to see them all up but does n't it look bare when you take them down |
| 17 | erm set of numbers , erm any way he was coming round and I just kept saying well I 'm stuck a minute , he says why , I says it does n't look right he says well why does n't it look right ? , he said well why does n't it look right ? , |
| 18 | erm set of numbers , erm any way he was coming round and I just kept saying well I 'm stuck a minute , he says why , I says it does n't look right he says well why does n't it look right ? , he said well why does n't it look right ? , |
| 19 | I 'd just like to say a does n't it look wonderful , the one gate we 've done a I saw a I saw a train coming last week |
| 20 | Does n't it look any good ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Does n't it get dark quickly ? ’ |
| 22 | it does , it suits her does n't it like that ? |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd think fifteen grand was a good reason to call out the dogs , or does n't it work that way ? ’ |