Example sentences of "it do [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That old smarty pants Dr Samuel Johnson was fond of saying that a woman preaching was like a dog standing on hind legs — it was not done well but it was surprising to find it done at all . |
| 2 | Why is it done at all ? |
| 3 | As a matter of fact , most of the London publishers send their printing to Edinburgh to get it done at half cost by sweated labour . |
| 4 | Would n't have it done at this stage anyway . |
| 5 | Do you know with this model , those paints with got to get it done by this Friday . |
| 6 | Or mayhap ‘ t would be more pleasurable to watch it done by another . |
| 7 | Nor was it done by some highly-paid red-braced executive . |
| 8 | we want it done in both directions , there 's no way you can do it on the main line |
| 9 | If you want it done in half the time , you 've got to have twice as many people . |
| 10 | it done in this weather , too , has n't |
| 11 | Her mother had played war when she had had it done like that . |
| 12 | Now what is particularly interesting is if you take that and you try and date when these various things were done , and if I ask questions why was it done like this . |
| 13 | If you give it more insects than it needs , what does it do with these extra insects ? |
| 14 | There were genuine reasons for doubting its accuracy — the issues of joint cost allocation were ( and remain ) problematical — hut the senior management response to it ( they insisted it be withdrawn even from internal circulation ) betrayed a greater devotion to the cause of suppressing criticism than it did to that of searching for the truth . |
| 15 | With Rufus it did to some extent come back again and all he could do was grind it down and soldier on . |
| 16 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |
| 17 | Their task is to so translate the text that it speaks with the original intention and force as it did to those originally addressed . |
| 18 | But , as a concept determining the political and educational programme , it remained rather vague , standing as it did for all manner of virtues before a spectrum of interests . |
| 19 | This it did for all but 150 years , becoming one of the best known and best loved of all our rural branch lines . ’ |
| 20 | The rising threshold of competence needed in the job market and the relative decline in traditional semi-skilled or unskilled jobs means that the compulsory school can no longer hope to provide a marketable , vocational education as it did for some ( usually lower-achieving ) children in the past . |
| 21 | He submitted that the undercover exercise , lasting as it did for some three months , was contrary to public policy . |
| 22 | It seemed improbable that the fine hot weather should continue right through the summer , but so it did for most of us . |
| 23 | Walking about at night in the streets of Calcutta and of necessity stepping over emaciated bodies too lethargic to move , or visiting refugee shacks in beautiful Hong Kong , or standing helplessly in the filthy slums of Kampala , always the same agony and anger assailed me as it did on that cold morning in Kiel . |
| 24 | It never again had quite the effect it did on that day when Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain was driven from the field , and , in truth , Gambo could n't quite remember that recipe to his dying day . |
| 25 | He came into the room and poured himself a glass of water from the earthenware jug which stood , as it did in all the offices of Cairo , in the window so that the air currents could cool it . |
| 26 | These examples suggest that while antislavery could not become an explicit test of membership of chapel communities it did in many cases become a norm of memberships and of a minister 's identity . |
| 27 | Coming as it did from such a family — not only from Lazarus ' and Lyon 's own strenuous devotions to their faith , in which names are of the greatest significance , but also from that of Solomon Klinitsky-Klein , his maternal grandfather and his very similar tradition . |
| 28 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 29 | Montague generation , proceeding as it does through all categories of expression simultaneously , promises recognition of the conversational integrity of parts of speech in a way that sentence-focussed Chomskian grammar does not . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend would then understandably say , ’ How does it come about , then , that North Devon health authority finds itself in the position that it does on this referral ? ’ |