Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] it [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only assure you that it does help , sometimes . |
| 2 | ‘ Being the eternal replacement is not only a bit boring in itself but it does damage . |
| 3 | It will be seen that the presence of a receiving target explains nothing but it does nudge two previously separate areas of discourse , the mind and the body , into a common sphere . |
| 4 | ‘ But it shows she was trying everything and it did put an end to the sightings at that time . ’ |
| 5 | It 's too complicated to explain er why this happens , but such simulations have been done , notably about Parker Baker and Smith who did the famous one and it does suggest that if you start off , even if you start of with similar size , that is sex cells , they will be driven by a competition for reproductive success to the extremes and you 'll end up with two extreme types , a large type proto-ovum and a tiny type , a proto- sperm . |
| 6 | The question did not appear to surprise her but it did surprise him , as did the very fact that they were walking so companionably together . |
| 7 | Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands . |
| 8 | Yes I mean if it if it does go to good to soft he will like the ground . |
| 9 | But you 've got to think about it if it does happen to you . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought about it and it does go back to those very early days and probably to that first meeting , ’ she says . |
| 11 | The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems . |
| 12 | er I 'm slightly worried about the effect on the Olympic movement of Atlanta being chosen only in the sense that er that this is the , I think the sixth time in 25 years that a North American city has got it and it does look rather as if the er pressures are now , on the financial side , are now coming very much from the North American continent and I 'm not at all sure that that 's really good for the Olympic movement . |
| 13 | ‘ What we brought into the head office was financial expertise as I 'd recognise it and it did deliver a huge benefit including giving professionally-based leadership at the centre for all the financial staff already working out there in the field . |
| 14 | The official regatta has virtually nothing to do with it but it does give farmers with riverside frontage an extra source of income … which has reached six figures , although not this year . |
| 15 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 16 | My hair is really short so I do n't actually have to style it but it did feel better and I would use this conditioner again . ’ |
| 17 | Madam Deputy Speaker there is course another matter of er of er broader significance and that is that er whilst these orders er er er cover erm certain financial institutions , they do n't erm they do n't cover others , they do n't cover Lloyds of London in so far as I could see , erm I 'd half expected to see the honourable member for Gloucester West er in his place to pursue his campaign that apparently he er he he is not able to be here and indeed er others who sit on the benches opposite who lost a large sum of money in Lloyds , er but they might have had something to say about it as it does seem odd that Lloyds has not been covered , no doubt the minister would tell us that needs primary legislation and I I 'm quite sure this government would move heaven and earth not to introduce another Lloyds bill er because of er the problems that that would no doubt attract . |
| 18 | What if it does link ? |
| 19 | And I learn quite a lot myself but it does give me that little bit of a challenge that er I think is helpful in retirement . |
| 20 | If anyone is currently fighting a case such as this , I would also be pleased to hear from them as it does seem to me that the Revenue is using its muscle to try to remove one of the benefits of independent taxation . |
| 21 | I have n't smelt anything and it does seem that ICI have given adequate warning . ’ |