Example sentences of "[noun sg] it do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 2 | It never again had quite the effect it did on that day when Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain was driven from the field , and , in truth , Gambo could n't quite remember that recipe to his dying day . |
| 3 | ‘ Unfortunately , the company 's proposal was rejected twice by its hourly-payed employees which forced the company to take the action it did in hiring new employees . ’ |
| 4 | On the product front — and picking up on some of the work it did for ACE — the company says an Intel Corp P5-specific SCO Unix kernel is a possibility . |
| 5 | ‘ And what good will it do for Hank , if it is true ? ’ |
| 6 | The proliferation of controls , for example , is bound to add to the problems of command , control and communication in wartime ( as on a small scale it did in Czechoslovakia in 1968 ) , but how much so it would be hard to say . |
| 7 | Universities are commonly asked odd questions , such as why bananas are yellow , how hedgehogs mate , and why water goes in the direction it does down the plughole . |
| 8 | But of course it did in a sense get done , but when Milton did write his great poem , as we 'll see , it came out very differently . |
| 9 | It is not an acceptable long-term rate , because of the damage it does to industry and homeowners . |
| 10 | In the days when increased duty meant an increased tax take , this attitude might just be forgiven , never mind the long-term damage it did to the industry . |
| 11 | A common assumption made about female unemployment is that it does not cause financial hardship in the same way it does for men . |
| 12 | Part of my thesis rests upon the belief that if deixis operates in a different way in lyric poetry from the way it does in non-literary discourse , it does so in degree , not in kind . |
| 13 | Societies are under grave pressure on both sides of their businesses , and when the crisis does end , the building society world may look very different from the way it did in 1990 . |
| 14 | The Motif-on-Sun port was n't a problem , according to Ybarra , as Motif versions of its software are recompilations of the original port it did on a DEC/Ultrix box running Motif . |
| 15 | Official nature conservation policies in France are only very recent in origin so the framework of protected sites simply does not exist on the scale and extent it does in the UK . |
| 16 | ( It is interesting , however , that the tsar seems at first to have intended to give the college some jurisdiction over aspects of Russia 's internal administration ; and for a considerable time it did in fact handle quasi-internal issues such as relations with the Kalmuck tribes and with the Cossack hetman in the Ukraine . |
| 17 | For one thing , it is doubtful if OPEC could have successfully imposed the price increase at the time it did in the absence of the high levels of demand that accompanied the mini-boom . |