Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you 'd say that as a b er as a result of that it did it did er so it did When you say it served its purpose , it did improve the image ? |
| 2 | " You speak of the OTC market as if it does n't exist . |
| 3 | Where the statute looks as if it does not cover certain forms of conduct the courts have sometimes read the statute widely to convict the " manifestly guilty " . |
| 4 | I shrug and look away , as if it does n't matter . |
| 5 | And so far , with our results , it looks as if it does not seem to have a major impact on our patients , so we may be doing something that does n't er particularly help the patients , and this is very important since we spend a lot of time doing these sorts of er procedures in our patients . |
| 6 | He told me this gaily , as if it did not much matter whether I believed it or no . |
| 7 | It is , however , almost as if it did not have one . |
| 8 | I knew that it did not , and could not , but for the next week I found myself despairing as if it did . |
| 9 | My ears were burning , and my left shin throbbed as if it did not know I had stopped walking . |
| 10 | But you ca n't wipe out the past as if it did n't exist , Ruth thought . |
| 11 | A lackadaisical boy with spots admitted him , and asked what he wanted , as if it did not greatly matter . |
| 12 | As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding . |
| 13 | Your treating the question as if it did n't exist is no help to you , no one ever got away by playing the ostrich . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But it only looked as if it did n't go in , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 15 | And you come dancing up in your stinking rags as if it did n't matter ! |
| 16 | The flesh of his hands appeared loose , as if it did n't fit his bones . |
| 17 | In the US , the protected class includes a person whose disability represents no handicap to employment but is treated by employers as if it did ; or whose disability is a handicap to employment but only as a result of the attitudes of others towards it ; or who has no disability at all but is erroneously treated by employers as disabled . |
| 18 | But nicely , as if it did n't matter . ’ |
| 19 | Another view of some civil law courts is that neither set of conditions can apply to the contract ( since the parties manifestly wanted the contract to exist , acted as if it did , but could not agree as to which of their sets of standard conditions should apply to it ) . |
| 20 | The House of Lords held that when determining the nature of the source of the income arising to the trust one looked through the trust treating the trust for all practical purposes as if it did not exist . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , really ? ’ she uttered smugly as if it did n't matter at all . |
| 22 | What would love be for if it did n't solve everything ? |
| 23 | No it means someone 's stopped a program , stopped a printout half way through and it does n't clear the page in |
| 24 | admitting things like losing fifty billion quid on fluttering on foreign exchanges er Mr did or flittering away the north sea oil revenue in tax cuts for higher earners rather than er keeping that er once in a life time er bonus that this country had for the north sea oil and also you could mention the increased pension for but it did n't match billions that have been wasted on defence expenditure especially defence expenditure and especially the trident programme . |
| 25 | I mean with this exhibition that we 've booked ‘ Just the Job ’ , which is black women erm and the kind of jobs that they 've got , a large percentage are carers and erm and it is the thing that erm women feel that they can do and it erm in a way that it comes out of their role in the home , the caring role , and erm and it 's a role that they get sort of erm trapped into and it does n't pay very much money , as Brenda was saying earlier . |
| 26 | This book is refreshing in its simplicity , in that it does n't pretend to be anything more than what it is — a love story . |
| 27 | This way of putting the hypothesis is useful in that it does two things . |
| 28 | The envious man is obsessively drawn to see through his rival 's eyes , the cruel man is as sensitive to a sufferer 's feelings as the compassionate ; and both are disinterested , in that it does not matter to them whether any injury they do is of benefit to themselves . |
| 29 | Kaplan 's theory would seem to be the-more plausible of the two , in that it does not depend on parents transmitting the results of their learning to their children ; instead , it can be explained purely in terms of human curiosity . |
| 30 | The first thesis is more difficult in that it does not express ideology as mere illusion nor as a reflection of real conditions . |