Example sentences of "it [vb past] do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So once the Trust acquired the house it began to do a number of it began to do three things . |
| 2 | Mr Clarke said he assumed it had done a U-turn across the central reservation . |
| 3 | In almost all reports in 1942 , this ‘ war weariness ’ and longing for peace , now by no means always linked to expectations of glorious victory and often highly pessimistic , dominates much more strongly than it had done a year earlier . |
| 4 | Not one drop of paint hit the wall he was supposed to be painting , but it had done a marvellous job of covering the path and half a garage door . |
| 5 | It had done a lot , that hand . |
| 6 | The DTI thought it had done a deal with the lawyers and police : by the end of last September these would say whether or not there were grounds for criminal charges . |
| 7 | It 's in the process of providing one at Benson , and it only provided the Heyford site because it had done a deal with the City Council over land and that |
| 8 | It had happened — and nothing worse was likely to happen — and it had done no harm . |
| 9 | The room smelt horribly of burnt rubber , but it had done the trick . |
| 10 | As far back as August 1965 , when James Leo Herlihy 's novel Midnight Cowboy was first published , it had done the rounds of every major studio , all of which turned it down . |
| 11 | And the tone of the voice seemed to surprise Sister Aloysius as much as it had done the Mother Superior . |
| 12 | If it comes to pass , Sun , which wishes it had done the deal with Novell , and presumably The Santa Cruz Operation — though see page 4 — wo n't be happy . |
| 13 | If Offa thought he could attempt ‘ to deal on equal terms ’ with Charlemagne , therefore , he was mistaken , and the likelihood is that the Frankish court had come to view his ascendancy in southern England with misgivings , destroying as it had done the traditional shape of political power in the south-east . |