Example sentences of "do it [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did it always have to be the trumpet-player ? |
| 2 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 3 | And why does it always appear to be the same photograph ? |
| 4 | Why does it always have to be me ? ’ |
| 5 | So does it only seem to be |
| 6 | Does it necessarily have to be the sharing of bread and wine ? |