Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 2 | This chapter will therefore look at status in the landscape , since this hierarchy and the differences in status are so evident and mean so much in terms of why the landscape looks like it does . |
| 3 | Looks like it does n't it ? |
| 4 | Looks like it does n't it ? |
| 5 | Yeah , looks like it does n't it ? |
| 6 | You do n't know if it does i is X is X times Y always the same as Y times X ? |
| 7 | Erm I do n't know if it does erm but it does . |
| 8 | We 're out there riding as hard as we can and if that gives any of the supporters any sort of er consolation , I do n't know if it does or not , but it — we 're really giving our best all the time and er win , lose or draw you 'll always find us every time we 've got a doing our best and er although often some people might shout and scream and give us a hard time , er it 's not for , for lack of trying , I mean nobody wants to finish last and er me even more than most , so just get behind us and shout and scream and we 'll try our hardest . |
| 9 | ( 21 ) John has two PhDs +> I believe he has , and have adequate evidence that he has ( 22 ) Does your farm contain 400 acres ? +> I do n't know that it does , and I want to know if it does The first of these provides an explanation for " Moore 's paradox " , namely the unacceptability of utterances like ( 23 ) : ( 23 ) ? ? |
| 10 | The 8th will live in my mind forever , I do n't know whether it does Nick 's . |
| 11 | One does it , one of the things that eh I do n't know whether it does effect you at all Chris but eh , eh Chris , is , is the fact that eh these here foreign lavatories they 've got around the town , now I 'm dead against these for a number of reasons . |
| 12 | " I do n't know whether it does or not , " said Nenna . |
| 13 | ‘ I really do n't know whether it does or not … |
| 14 | One wonders whether it does not say more about the worker than about the client . |
| 15 | We must stop this from happening before it does . |
| 16 | It will act as it did last Friday , with determination and sensitivity . |
| 17 | This last point is worth amplifying as it does affect the poetry . |
| 18 | So we say ‘ Of course the cat believes the ball is stuck — it is conscious , its eyes work , why else would it behave as it does ? ’ but disallow that it might have the belief ‘ that it believes the ball is stuck ’ , this being linguistic ( Kenny 1975 : 5 ) . |
| 19 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 20 | This remark , occurring as it does in a passage in which he is distinguishing between the grounds of the class metal ( ‘ the possession of certain common peculiarities ’ ) and those of the class sensation of white ( ‘ nothing but resemblance ’ ) clearly implies that if I had had no other sensations of white I could not assert the proposition ‘ This is a sensation of white ’ with the meaning it has when I have had such sensations . |
| 21 | Bacon 's case , occurring as it did after eighteen years of Stuart rule , can not be taken as evidence for judicial corruption under the Tudors . |
| 22 | Seagram 's victory in the 1991 Grand National was an extraordinary coincidence occurring as it did in the final year of the company 's sponsorship of the race . |
| 23 | Empirical evidence of the participants ' interpretation of next turns is not available , and conversation analysts instead fall back on circular arguments , claiming that the conversation develops as it does by " orientation " to the same organizational devices which have to be taken for granted in order to get this interpretation of the data ( p. 120 ) . |
| 24 | It seems that the bacterial cell wall grows helically , twisting as it does . |
| 25 | Why did this intervention have to come when it did ? |
| 26 | The Uprising destroyed this normality , and one must ask why it occurred , and why it occurred when it did , twenty years after the territories fell under Israeli rule . |
| 27 | To questions about tax and public services , the public responded as it did in the days of Thatcher : by denying her creed of the Rich Samaritan and countering with approval for self-sacrifice and public services . |
| 28 | This is tougher than it first looks as it does not cover news , sport , game-shows or teletext services . |
| 29 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |
| 30 | A form of writing that deals with the historical evolution of the landscape can be recommended to anyone interested in understanding why the English landscape looks as it does . |