Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [adv] do " in BNC.
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1 | It was an intelligent , thought-provoking script , but in Whitaker 's eyes it just did not work . |
2 | For most of them sex happens in the same places it always did . |
3 | in a couple of years it never done a thing and now it 's growing . |
4 | But for present purposes it really does n't matter which if either of them is the right definition . |
5 | It takes at least five Americans to write a book erm they 're all multi- authored volumes erm for , for most of your purposes , for almost all your purposes er and certainly for basic reading for , for lectures and , and tutorials it really does n't matter which one you read erm there are , I mean there are in the library I think the last time I counted them about twenty five or thirty general textbooks on American politics , it does n't really matter er which one you read . |
6 | If there are any storylines it surely does n't help to wipe out the people who make them — . |
7 | A second dominant trend in the twentieth century is the gradual extension of democracy , but as I showed in Chapter 1 this was a slow and halting process in the interwar years , with democracy being suppressed in several European countries , by fascist regimes , the Stalinist dictatorship and the dictatorships in Portugal and Spain , while in the colonial territories it either did not exist at all , or in a few cases only in rudimentary forms . |