Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole thing seemed faithfully in the past , where we could regard it with intense interest , and surround it with historical debate , but where it could do us , and our generation , no harm . |
| 2 | He argued , along with Balcon , Pearson and Woolf , that it would do nothing to achieve the FBI 's objectives . |
| 3 | As Cobbett said afterwards , the people had wanted the Act " that it might do us some good ; that it might better our situation … and not for the gratification of any abstract or metaphysical whim . " |
| 4 | Yet , paradoxically , despite a failure to agree about what education should aim for , what it should actually do , everyone seems to be certain both that it should do something , and that it is not doing it . |
| 5 | 8 Make a final check on the photograph before it is taken to ensure that it will do its job . |
| 6 | If a public sector organisation says that it will do something at a certain time , the customer wants that to happen . |
| 7 | So good that it can do it almost without help from history : it manages to turn 20th-century products into cult objects of British tradition . |
| 8 | They had heard the unnatural humming of a pylon in the summer air ; and had actually gone beneath it , on Fiver 's assurance that it could do them no harm . |
| 9 | For example , if you get a new Windows application ( such as Quattro Pro for Windows ) all you need to do is run its Install or Setup program and it 'll do everything for you . |
| 10 | I was hungry , but room service was extortionately expensive and it would do me no harm to fast for one night . |
| 11 | The horses have done nothing all winter and it would do them so much good . |
| 12 | This was really going to rock her and it would do her good . |
| 13 | She , I think she said she wants to go like , you know , for erm wherever she wants to go and it would do her chores themself . |
| 14 | The development of a business park on this site would not help the local community because of the need for unskilled/semi-skilled work , and it would do nothing to improve the environment for the residents of this area , with the use of the water frontage lost . |
| 15 | Nobody asked me if I was there , and it would do my career no good at all to have my name mentioned in a murder case . |
| 16 | I mean we 've got a font called Dryden , which is Scotch-Roman as Monotype call it and it would do it . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a grand night for a walk , and it would do you good , Joe , after being cooped up on that ship , ’ his mother said . |
| 18 | Remember that regression is a new experience for your subconscious mind and it will do whatever is necessary to protect you . |
| 19 | It is not based on military criteria , and it will do nothing whatever for Scotland . ’ |
| 20 | She is almost as fat as he is and it will do them both good . |
| 21 | All the family can enjoy eating the low-fat way and it will do everyone a world of good . |
| 22 | Take this with you , it 's been blessed by the Holy Father and it will do you good to use it . |
| 23 | ‘ He 'll be a real help to the batsmen , and it will do his confidence a great deal of good . |
| 24 | And it will do his own prospects no harm if he is seen attempting to make up for his failure to sign Alan Shearer in the summer . |
| 25 | That is absolutely contrary to the constitutional position that Parliament can alter an Act previously passed , and it can do so by repealing in terms the previous Act — Mr Hill agrees that it may do so — and it can do it also in another way — namely , by enacting a provision which is clearly inconsistent with the previous Act . |
| 26 | It can also be funny and it can do you a power of good . |
| 27 | I mean you 're not really , you put it through it 's paces to see if it would do what we wanted it to do but that 's not actually . |
| 28 | But it might do something . |
| 29 | ‘ It is n't exactly the Tower of London , ’ I said , ‘ but it 'll do me . ’ |
| 30 | Needs a bit of cleaning up , but it 'll do me all right . ’ |