Example sentences of "it had [adv] do [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In tropical oceans , there is also the problem of the teredo worm , one of the lamellibranch family of boring molluscs , whose destructive vigour proved as deadly to submarine cables as it had previously done to ships ' timbers , wharves and sea dykes .
2 In 1456 Coventry negotiated freedom from tolls in Southampton , as it had already done with another port which served it , namely Bristol .
3 If my withdrawal from separatism had in part to do with feeling unhappy with a surfeit of hatred , which is mentally and spiritually very depleting , it had also to do with how you go about communicating feelings of being cleansed and enlightened .
4 From counting for virtually nothing in positivist criminology it now seemed to count for everything , as it had originally done in classical criminology .
5 If she were to open the door perhaps the blackness would be out there now , ready to swallow her , as it had almost done on that previous occasion ; or would she wander endlessly in a limbo of greyness , forever trapped between Johnny 's time and her own ?
6 It had more to do with their nationalities than their ages .
7 It had more to do with the easy communion between Katherine and Thomas Sachs , the way his eyes sometimes fell on her when she was n't looking .
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