Example sentences of "what it does [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Myself and Parco Polo seeks meaning in what it does to us , and it left me thinking that the late Italo Calvino has a lot to answer for .
2 But I 'm still not over what it does to people and what they think of me because of it .
3 I apologize ; I tend to eat too fast — you ca n't imagine what it does to my liver . ’
4 To understand why damage to Broca 's area impairs speech we need to know both where it gets its input from and what it does to that input .
5 What it does to that input may not be susceptible to description in psychological terms .
6 It Ai n't What You Do It 's What It Does to You
7 If you do n't get rid of acid you know what it does to even metal , if it sits on metal it eats through it , so you imagine what it does to your bones when it sits on them .
8 If you do n't get rid of acid you know what it does to even metal , if it sits on metal it eats through it , so you imagine what it does to your bones when it sits on them .
9 I know what it does to you , and I do n't want to feel like I feel now , thanks very much .
10 They get between me and my patients , at any time , for so much as a nanosecond , and they 're out , I do n't care what it does to their scheduling . ’
11 what it does to our economy , whether people can afford this that and the other , but surely it has quite a considerable social impact on people 's lives being unemployed ?
12 Possibly but i i if , if you say it is a , i it 's an honest government and er er the tax collection is , is straightforward and honest , the government is then deciding what it does with that tax revenue .
13 The modern school must , to my mind , stand or full by what it does for the worst-equipped children .
14 I hope that we are never foolish enough to take what it does for granted — because that is when it will begin to crumble and fail like so many others have done .
15 At least that is what it does for me !
16 Unusual in many ways-including its gentle liquidy texture — Turnaround Cream is exceptional in what it does for oily skins .
17 They want to know that you know it , and they want to feel confident that if they ask you question you can answer it , but they very much want to know what it does for them and how much it 's going to cost them basically .
18 Do n't go into all the technical details without er , six months er , payable until you return to work , reach sixty or die , payable for by reduced allocation to the units according the age and sex , etcetera , etcetera , and tell him what it does for him .
19 Tell them about the aims of the Medau Society , what it does for them , and for others
20 Meanwhile , this one can be enjoyed for what it does in its own right .
21 The cheapest American city in which to run a six-cylinder , four-door sedan is Sioux Falls , South Dakota , where insurance costs a fifth of what it does in LA .
22 If a character manages to take the wand he 's not going to be able to sit down and figure out what it does in the heat of battle , so it 's not usable immediately .
23 The human eye is here doing exactly what it does in the breeding of pedigree dogs or prize roses .
24 Lord Diplock said : " What it does in that capacity is governed by public law ; and although the legal consequences of doing it may result in creating rights enforceable in private law , those rights are not necessarily the same as those that would flow in private law from doing a similar act otherwise than in the exercise of statutory powers . "
25 Rather than contenting himself with a specific and clearly defined puzzle , Poulantzas aims to give a broad account of the capitalist state , which will show what it is and what it does by revealing its connections with the various instances of the social whole .
26 And so what it does after the first ten minutes , it says , look I 've had enough of this , what 's the grey haired old bugger on about now , oh ,
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