Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | This behaviour was unmentionable a few years before , although it probably did take place . |
| 2 | Mother always got annoyed when that story came up in conversation , and I made sure that it frequently did . |
| 3 | What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on . |
| 4 | If there was one ( albeit very small ) consolation about the sale of Dave Batty , it was that it finally did away with an important inferiority complex of mine — was I the only person in West Yorkshire not to be best mates with the man ? ? |
| 5 | If you find next time you need that remedy that it again does not work , put another mark on the bottle and give it one more chance before discarding the whole bottle . |
| 6 | IBM reckons the 970 achieves a SPECmark rating of 100.3 , making IBM the first to produce a RISC system which scores a century on the benchmark , and that it also does 100.9 transactions per second on the Transaction Processing Performance Council 's TPC-A benchmark . |
| 7 | I suspect it has either seen or heard us , and this is confirmed by the fact that it just does n't appear again . |
| 8 | Would it not help if the board gave a written assurance to the people who 've been complaining here that they will meet them on any occasion to discuss the problem in writing please because from Brenda it appears that it just does not happen . |
| 9 | But it 's the heart that rebels and protests that it just does n't feel right . |
| 10 | But the most striking thing about Bagehot 's essay on Peel , in the light of the last full week of this election campaign , is that it simply does not apply to Major at all . |
| 11 | She believes the general lack of women participants in the sport is that it simply does not appeal . |
| 12 | One problem with the orthodox account is that it simply does not square with the facts about when and where riots happen — and in particular , whereabouts in the prison system they occur . |
| 13 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |
| 14 | Is it one of the new quangos or is it a S F R A , a self financing regulatory authority that has powers to issues and regulations and charge people for the job that it then does . |
| 15 | In the case of displayed material , for example , it would be open to a shopkeeper prosecuted for displaying a magazine entitled ‘ The British Heritage ’ to show that he believed that it was concerned with the stately homes of England rather than the racist propaganda that it actually does contain . |
| 16 | A decision to save by building up money balances no longer carries with it the high opportunity cost that it once did . |
| 17 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 18 | Incestuous feeling need not always figure in such a situation but there is no doubt that it often does . |
| 19 | By the time the first sharp feelings of his loss had begun to wear off - it would be very many years before all of it did so , and arguable that it ever did — other voices were beckoning . |
| 20 | Not only is the creature convincingly modelled and animated , but ray tracing and lighting effects are used to give accurate refraction and reflection so that it really does look as if it is made of water . |
| 21 | Making it clear that it really does recognise that the only way to revitalise its languishing business units is to hire outsiders for some of the key positions , IBM Corp late Friday announced that as well as making its AdStar Inc storage unit a wholly-owned subsidiary , it had hired industry veteran Ed Zschau , System Industries Inc founder and one-term Republican representative , to be its chairman and chief executive — and an IBM vice-president , relegating the unit 's former general manager Ray AbuZayyad to the post of president and chief operating officer . |
| 22 | If these ideas are taken together , and if three centuries of physics and chemistry are taken as the model to emulate , it is tempting to suggest that it really does not matter what the actors on the international scene have in their minds . |
| 23 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |
| 24 | Erm however erm it it does sound as though it 's one of these policies where as I suspected and said earlier today that it really does n't have any effect on anything and it 's probably something that could be erm crossed out and nobody would even notice it had gone . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyhow , I was so busy last year doing five things at once that it really did my head in . |
| 26 | Hence , although acquaintance with ourselves seems probably to occur , it is not wise to assert that it undoubtedly does occur . |
| 27 | The fact that it sometimes did not work after that operation was incidental . |
| 28 | We know that it still has a poll tax element , that it will still need a register , and that it still does not relate to the ability to pay . |
| 29 | The investigation of firing showed that it certainly did n't help healing , causing the horse considerable distress for no good reason . |
| 30 | One of the major reasons for the widespread failure of rural developments is that it usually does not serve the interests of the people at whom it is ostensibly aimed . |