Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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1 | Cutting bricks is another fault of Russ , it 's all commonsense actually if you think about it , I mean actually we 've drove round at night looking at people 's walls and things like that and some were absolutely appalling , they 've obviously paid money to have that done , so you , you , you can see it do n't have to be absolutely perfect |
2 | It do n't matter to me , I 'm not bothered , it 's just , it 's just me and you should have this , look , it 's his money , I 'm not bothered , I 've not |
3 | It do n't seem to be any good at all , whatsoever . |
4 | Cos it do n't belong to us . |
5 | It do n't belong to her . |
6 | Yeah it do n't belong to us , okay puff on your inhaler , one , two , three , four , five , six |
7 | it do n't amount to much does it ? |
8 | I think its just an extreme form of friendship , you 've become extremely friendly with somebody and it can be kind , in love with your , with your girlfriend it do n't have to be in love with your boyfriend , you can have you know some body who 's a same sex and you 've got the same feelings towards them |
9 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
10 | It do n't have to be wound wet does it ? |
11 | I only 'ope it do n't come to a General Strike , Don . |
12 | The AESOP PEP is a single company PEP ; shares transferred into it do not have to be quoted , as is usually the case with PEPs . |
13 | He had a written employment contract , but it did not refer to his place of work . |
14 | As an editorial in the British Journal of Religious Education put it , " It could equally be claimed that the syllabus is defective because it did not refer to Krishna , Allah and the Guru Granth Sahib anywhere . " |
15 | Unlike many disagreements within bands , it did not relate to Charman 's actual playing and there was none of the usual ‘ musical differences ’ . |
16 | " You ca n't expect me to agree with you on every single thing , Papa , " he said , keeping his voice low so that it did not carry to Senator Sherman and his sons , who were strung out in single file on their ponies behind them . |
17 | Any liquid would gather in the ditch and there would be plenty of time to take preventive action , since it did not discharge to a stream for some distance . |
18 | It did not want to be left out . |
19 | The less critical saw a city which was indeed made for pleasure — though as always it did not pay to be poor — and which was above all beautiful . |
20 | It is a house which has given rise to much aesthetic conjecture , and for a long time it was deemed to be the first seed of the modern movement in England , for it did not appear to be built in any revival style , but in a fresh new one . |
21 | And yet , in her case , it did not appear to him that she had been struck down by any kind of ordinary post-natal depression , as Adams 's next words seemed to confirm . |
22 | It did not appear to be a case where there had been collusion between the employer and the driver to their mutual advantage . |
23 | It did not appear to be caused by needle or pusher , because it was not happening in a regular line — just spasmodically . |
24 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) . |
25 | The decline in profitability may have resulted in an unwillingness of British business to invest in industry in this country , but it did not lead to any scarcity of capital for investment . |
26 | In other words , it did not lead to the questioning of the validity of existing programmes , but instead re-costed them , thus providing updated costings ( see Pliatzky , 1982 , p.98 ) . |
27 | As far as the aristocracy were concerned , it did not lead to fundamental changes in the social structure ; where wealth changed hands , it was generally within the existing dominant class . |
28 | It did not matter to her anyway . |
29 | At the time it did not matter to us because I did n't want to go out with David . |
30 | It did not matter to them if Luke 's betrayal of his friends was the culmination of a long-standing feud between himself and Gallagher concerning land . |