Example sentences of "it do for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the drovers took a strip of white cotton about 20 yards long and held it across the top of the quay , and it did for a fence . |
| 2 | It did for a time seem to explain the trajectories of development and underdevelopment in some countries of Latin America , but when it was applied to Africa and Asia it was much less successful . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 5 | If competitors and circumstances are regarded as the " enemy " then It makes as much sense for a corporation to have alternative objectives as it does for a military commander . |
| 6 | It takes as long as it does for a dog to douse a tree trunk . |