Example sentences of "it do [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I 've always been interested in housing and it did appear to me that however delightful Harlow may be , when the architects were designing properties , they designed a property without any consideration for the people who were to live in them . |
| 2 | Even if it did lead to danger , as the signpost clearly said , she was determined to follow it , even though she was scared . |
| 3 | It was so radical that in later centuries it did lead to the abolition of slavery in the Western world . |
| 4 | Erm and with the housing people putting the type of people they put in there , it did lead to a lot of problems . |
| 5 | So the law was , was implemented , it became fa clear fairly quickly that , in the process of that implementation , it did lead to encroachment on the r middle peasant . |
| 6 | The new motion did n't get Kite much more distance — about five and a half yards , on average — but it did contribute to his rising from 29th on Tour in hitting greens in regulation to third . |
| 7 | There was no doubt that if it did spread to the nearest stack it would set the whole hayfield alight in a very short time . |
| 8 | But it did relate to — and therefore change with — the monarch on the throne . |
| 9 | ‘ But it did prove to be a very safe option — and the team did n't even have to get their feet wet ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It did occur to me that the doctor did choose an odd moment to draw attention to the bell 's being there . |
| 11 | You see I mean it it did occur to me that er erm on on the three occasions that we 've done this now , it always turns out to be er me involved in about just you know either playing the piano or something else in just about everything . |
| 12 | Er it did occur to me I mean I was , in my last church , the for for completely different reasons , the question of the timing of the church services , was brought up . |
| 13 | It did occur to me that since everyone seemed to be playing a game with rules unknown to me , Robert might not be concerned only that I would be bored by myself , but he might want me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 14 | Wife to an elderly duke , he could have added , and his third wife at that ; it did occur to him fleetingly that she , perhaps , had something to gain , a brief recapture of life and youth before it was too late . |
| 15 | ‘ It did occur to me . ’ |
| 16 | She felt , it did happen to her with strangers , immediate sympathy : she liked him . |
| 17 | Mind , I can always claim to have had running water at Low Birk Hatt but it did happen to be a stream some way down the meadow . |
| 18 | For reasons which are both obscure and immaterial , there was considerable delay in this report coming to the attention of the local authority having the care of J. When in January 1992 it did come to the authority 's notice , Dr. I. was asked to provide a further up to date report and in addition the authority obtained a second opinion from Dr. R. , a consultant paediatric neurologist with a London teaching hospital . |
| 19 | Also contrary to the speculations of media sociologists , television not only failed to determine what the electorate thought , it also failed to determine what they thought about , though it did communicate to the electorate what the parties were fighting about . |
| 20 | She could hardly bear to think the thought , but it did seem to her that anyone who had lived for so many years with her mother could be excused for a certain lack of joie de vivre . |
| 21 | Yet — strangely — it did seem to be her concern , and — equally strangely — she could not decide why it should be so important for her to understand the true state of his feelings towards Doreen . |
| 22 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 23 | And it did seem to me that in the light of , erm , of the single regeneration budget , on the light of the need to be developing a regeneration strategy for Shropshire , perhaps the role of the County Council in this affair should actually be , er , as , as the local government for the county , should be to look at preparing a , a regeneration strategy for the whole county , at which the work that we do to economic development is one of the pillars of support as is the work that the districts do is another pillar of support , as is the work of the R D C and the objective five programme , and all the various other bodies that are involved in , in economic development and similar activities in . |
| 24 | What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on . |
| 25 | Erm first of all , as I grapple with this problem over the weekend , it did seem to me very difficult to make any sensible assessment of integration on a at a strategic level because so clearly it is a site specific matter . |
| 26 | I would of thought so Mr yes , yes , erm , alright well Mr Mr erm this is a rather odd exercise in a way and as you know my first thoughts were they were better to leave it to see what , how the , how the judgment came out of it , but erm , erm , I do regard the matter as er , as a , as a whole as of very considerable importance both to both sides of this case and erm , it did seem to me on considering it , er , from recovering from the dentist that er , an , an outline of erm |
| 27 | Although Ross was still obviously the same hard , unshakeable man who 'd always been master of his own emotions , it did seem to Laura that he was now acting in an oddly constrained manner . |
| 28 | After some uncertainty as to whether the Meiji constitution applied to Japan 's colonial possessions , it was decided that it did apply to Korea and Taiwan . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it did add to royal pressure upon the archbishop and further reminded him of the realities of royal power : in 1285 he petitioned for the relaxation of the statute , especially in respect of grants to parish churches , but Edward reserved his right to licence — to confer or withhold favour . |
| 30 | I knew the single-storey building from memory , standing as it did close to the dividing line with the Amal-controlled suburb of Chiyah in southern Beirut . |