Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | The midday sun at the time appears to have acted more dramatically than it subsequently does with mad dogs and Englishmen . |
| 3 | Indeed , kinship could well be said to involve greater obligations to the old than it once did , because survivors now live longer and have fewer descendants who can share their care . |
| 4 | Moreover , AT&T 's labour-relations department has less influence than it once did , before decentralisation swept the company . |
| 5 | Let us assume , in accordance with the Marxist concept , that in the earliest human societies there was no political domination , in however rudimentary a form ( not even the domination of women by men ) , though this may seem less probable than it once did , in the light of recent studies of animal societies . |
| 6 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 7 | Didcot in Oxfordshire is a town best known for its power station , so it probably does n't figure in most people 's top ten tourist destinations . |
| 8 | This original language does not seem to have had words for ‘ vine ’ or ‘ palm-tree ’ so it probably did not start in the Mediterranean . |
| 9 | Stars could not shine were it not for particles — called neutrinos — that are so insubstantial that they have no mass at all and can travel right through a solid object like the Earth as if it simply did not exist . |
| 10 | Only even if it just does er , just till summer you know . |
| 11 | And that led me the think of phetam , and to wonder again if it really did confer super-powers . |
| 12 | So there seems to be nothing special or unique about the way hypnosis aids the memory of witnesses , if it actually does . |
| 13 | As no one individual or institution in the Czech Republic has $10 million to spend on a painting , the collection would almost certainly be split and leave Bohemia if it ever does come under the hammer . |
| 14 | The example a few hundred yards upstream cuts through the neck of an entrenched meander , but it is some 100 m ( 330 ft ) long so that considerable modification will have to take place before it becomes a true natural arch of the Ardèche type , if it ever does . |
| 15 | If it ever does . |
| 16 | If it ever did , it was always as a part which was apart , separate , a ‘ precious stone set in the silver sea . |
| 17 | The answer , of course , is that it has never happened , and if it ever did there would be immediate and radical constitutional change to ensure it never happened again . |
| 18 | She did not know of the vow he had made that if it ever did come he would make sure she was the first to go , even if it meant him staying in the Cages . |
| 19 | It may be that one strand of his personality has not yet matured , and even if it never does , that does not mean that he does not love you . |
| 20 | But what if it never did ? |
| 21 | The festival will feature more than twenty bands and if it all does get too much for you . |
| 22 | when its like that it tries and pulls you down , and this is why there was an accident with a Wessex or something or a Sea King a while ago , where three or four people died , cos it just did n't get enough height and as , as it got to the top it just pulled it straight down to the ground , it could n't , it did n't have enough height to clear the circle |
| 23 | Cos it really does , it still goes on settling into the |
| 24 | It is boring to have to say that ( it actually makes me twitch even as I do ! ) , but it is no good pretending that it works in any other way , because it simply does n't . |
| 25 | At the time of writing , synthetic insulin — which to the scientist is chemically identical to that secreted in the pancreas — can not be administered to diabetic people because it simply does not work ; yet pig 's insulin injected into the human body does ! |
| 26 | ’ . I listened , looking vague I expect , but did nothing — not from ill-will but because it just did not occur to me to change . |
| 27 | It would n't last , because it never did , and the end of October might even bring the first tentative snows of winter — but until then people would continue to be caught out , and to shiver and sweat as a penance for their gullibility . |
| 28 | Erm swimming is recommended as about the most all round exercise because it certainly does your heart and lungs , it does all the muscles of the body , it , according to what you do in the water of course , I mean if you just go and stand there it does nothing |
| 29 | What else does the superego do , because it certainly does all of that , but it has other functions . |
| 30 | Ruth had to smile because it certainly did n't sound like her . |