Example sentences of "it do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 and there were two women that had it done , that big one had , had it done four times
2 Well the other one that had it done four times said oh , I 'm on my own now with the little boy , so she was
3 It 's too much , if you ever have too much you can just fold a bit down , if you have a big bandage you can fold either of those edges down first if you 've got too much and then you fold it forward and back , now your pin sticks in , but all the material and out of all the material and it goes in a straight upward direction , again it must go in that direction so that if per chance it comes undone it falls out and drops on the floor , whereas if it was sideways or downwards it would open and stick in your casualty , so that 's why we have it done that way .
4 No I meant one of the film actresses that has it done that way or something ,
5 He was having it done this afternoon were n't he ?
6 ‘ If you really want it done this way , I 'll get it drawn up and sent down for you to sign .
7 It was just incompetence that I did n't get it done this week .
8 ‘ How d' you want it done this time ?
9 No there are n't , I had it done last year at erm , oh what 's it called , , Sidcup .
10 I 've seen it done last week , .
11 If your boyfriend gave you a massage would it do any good ?
12 Nor will it do any good if it is sent to the right outlet at the wrong time .
13 Does does it do any good ?
14 And mainframe sales still generate enough profit to enable it to do other things .
15 If you make college too comfortable nobody will ever want to leave it to do proper work .
16 It was a number of weeks ago I had cause to sit on it to do some paperwork ; I then found out I was to be a father again .
17 If a government , using its majority in Parliament , passes appropriate laws empowering it to do specified acts , are its activities thereby rendered legitimate because they are done in accordance with the law , regardless of how oppressive or repugnant those laws might be ?
18 You can leave that stuff on practically forever without it doing any harm . ’
19 The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago .
20 The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ?
21 There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago .
22 Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) .
23 ‘ But in the meantime , even coughing could break Joanna 's ribs — which it did many times .
24 each , each time you pulled a handle it did one job and er could n't tell you really now what it was , you know but er you 'd pull the five handles in a few minutes and the damn thing was done .
25 The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago .
26 Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement .
27 You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago .
28 The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening .
29 ‘ I remember when we first came here on honeymoon it did wonderful things to you , Stephen .
30 The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier .
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