Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [verb] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | All sides — Iran and all parties capable of doing something — can bring pressure to end this tragedy in such a manner as to avoid giving the impression that this was done to make trade or that one side has blackmailed the other into doing something it did not want to do . " |
| 2 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |
| 3 | It did not attempt to do so for every council in the country . |
| 4 | He admitted having tried cocaine but said it did not seem to do much for him ; cocaine was in ‘ because the chicks dig it sexually ’ . |
| 5 | Now you see in my days on the railway sixty miles an hour was a good speed for a train it di it did n't reckon to do much more than that see . |
| 6 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
| 7 | I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , it did n't seem to do much good , but it was to come in very useful later . |
| 9 | Although the corporation had power to cut off the water supply in the event of non-payment of rates it had not threatened to do so . |
| 10 | The payment of this sum , however , was conditional on the Legislative Assembly approving new and unpopular tax laws which it had still failed to do by May 1991 . |
| 11 | The regime was less keen to placate intellectuals than it was to calm the gentry , but despite the alarming pronouncements of " the Great Russian " and the authors of To the Young Generation and Young Russia , it had less need to do so . |