Example sentences of "it do [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Nor would it do to come to too many conclusions on the evidence of yesterday 's romp in the sun on a well-grassed but hard pitch .
2 you can then make it do work for you ?
3 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 .
4 But it did result in a 20% saving on commercial pig feed and also served to recover much of the lost nutrients in the ditches and to reduce eutrophication problems downstream .
5 It did result in er an improvement in the share situation and in the er strength of the pound , but I understand the share prices have dropped rapidly again following further news of oil price increases .
6 It did mention in the , the sort of packet that maybe feel cold with cold hands and what have you .
7 It did exist in those parts of ‘ modernizing ’ industry which were part of the engineering industry and involved skilled labour in manufacture , as distinct from the Fordist production practices of process plants .
8 SO , in the end , it did finish with a whimper and not a bang .
9 I felt that on this particular piece it did struggle through the heartwood at times , especially on the figure 's right-hand side as this was extremely hard in places , with dense interlocking grain where a branch or branches had formed .
10 The joke was hardly likely to have them holding their ribs in Helsinki but it did reflect on the inordinate importance that gambling plays in the lives of Scottish footballers .
11 It d it did depend on the t run that we had .
12 When it did dawn on me it was too late .
13 In many respects the Glorious Revolution was a significant landmark : it did alter in certain ways the relationship between the Crown and Parliament , it did guarantee the legislative sovereignty of Parliament , it did establish some limited degree of religious toleration for Protestant Dissenters , and the fact that after 1689 Parliament came to meet on a regular basis each year did significantly alter the context in which politics operated .
14 Even if it did lead to danger , as the signpost clearly said , she was determined to follow it , even though she was scared .
15 It was so radical that in later centuries it did lead to the abolition of slavery in the Western world .
16 Erm and with the housing people putting the type of people they put in there , it did lead to a lot of problems .
17 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 .
18 It did go through my mind a few times , but at the time it does n't seem that important .
19 It did go through my head — a wild surmise that the man might have been Gesner .
20 Er the blood blood count , because it did go for blood count , the blood count was er ninety three .
21 I thought the half bottle of wine we left was symbolic of the extravagant life I was now entering , though I must admit it did go against the grain and I did think vaguely of ‘ bowser bottles ’ .
22 But in Cheltenham it did go against them unfortunately .
23 What trade it did came from locals , for travellers at this season were few .
24 Apparently every now and then it did succeed in reaching one of the lower perches , but I never saw it do so and to this day I do n't know how it managed it .
25 Many believed that the OEEC was inadequate to achieve far-reaching changes in economic conditions , yet actually it did succeed in lowering trade barriers and smoothing inter-European payments .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 In fact , the nastiest wife batterer — who was presented as somebody quite chilling — was a graduate ( I 'm not sure what that says about graduates ) and it did end with his wife actually leaving him .
29 Matters did not improve when they got to Glenelg and found an appalling inn — although it did draw from Johnson one of his best remarks of the entire tour .
30 Before very long , however , it did open in the West End .
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