Example sentences of "do it [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed they would have argued — and perhaps with some justice — that theirs was a more refined branch of the art : for did it not demand to a quite exceptional degree a sense of the romance of the past and a feeling for an evocative relic ? |
| 2 | But did it not occur to you , ’ Theda said , her breast heaving with the passion she was only just holding in check , ‘ that I have lately not been seen ? |
| 3 | ‘ But did it not occur to that massive conceit of yours that I might not want to make love to you ? ’ |
| 4 | Did it really lead to greater ‘ equality ’ between regions ? |
| 5 | And outside Stavanger himself , and perhaps — his daughter , what did it really matter to anyone ? |
| 6 | ‘ Did it never occur to you to knock before you came barging in ? ’ she demanded . |
| 7 | ‘ Did it ever occur to you that everything in this world has had to be designed ? ’ asks Sir Terence Conran , pausing for the significance of his question to sink in . |
| 8 | ‘ Did it ever occur to you that he did n't murder that other apprentice — that he only said he did , to frighten you ? ’ |
| 9 | The list included the JONA 22 self-launching aircraft which appears to have been an Italian invention — did it ever get to the production or prototype stage ? |
| 10 | God , she thought , how did it ever come to this ? |
| 11 | Why did it always have to be the trumpet-player ? |
| 12 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 13 | Supposedly , when I , when I told Nicola the other day that you reckon that I do n't do enough work , she says cor blimey she was shocked she was , shocked oh do it , do it as near to the microphone as you can mum |
| 14 | Lastly , again does it not occur to us that niggardly education provision over years has contributed to a level of national vulgarity , taste , social behaviour virtually unacceptable in the modern world ? |
| 15 | Does it not add to the reasons for which they have to act , and to the considerations which may justify their authority ? |
| 16 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 17 | Does it not seem to you that had the guilt been his , he could have come straight home and said never a word , and left it to some other to find the dead and sound the alarm ? ’ |
| 18 | Does it never occur to us that our lone position in this respect , over long years , may be the common factor in the long story of our economic decline ? |
| 19 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 20 | And why does it always appear to be the same photograph ? |
| 21 | Why does it always have to be me ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Does it always keep to the deep water ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Does it still happen to you , John , that you look back at yourself as you were six months ago and you think what an ignorant , innocent goose you were ! |
| 24 | So does it only seem to be |
| 25 | Does it necessarily have to be the sharing of bread and wine ? |
| 26 | Does it indeed apply to a local government in a different country , where the body itself may be of a completely different kind ? |
| 27 | Does it ever occur to these orchestra-first people that , whereas in the theatre , though you may hear more of the orchestra than of the singers , nevertheless your attention is focused visually on the stage , while on disc you need the stage brought into the aural foreground to compensate for the loss of the visual facility ? |