Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [conj] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm so excited , ’ said Elaine , ‘ I did n't think a style like this would suit me but it does . ’ |
| 2 | well I have , I 'm making adjustments , what I mean , what I 'd finished it , I did n't bother to try it cos it did n't work , now I found out why it do n't work I have to change the rod , I 've got the rod in the wrong place |
| 3 | ‘ What we brought into the head office was financial expertise as I 'd recognise it and it did deliver a huge benefit including giving professionally-based leadership at the centre for all the financial staff already working out there in the field . |
| 4 | Her credibility increased when she advised me that it did not really matter whether I believed in homeopathy or not . |
| 5 | And she believed me that it did n't match three piece suite or carpet and it was stupid , and that sh and she says what shall I do about them ? |
| 6 | John assured me that it did n't matter in the least , and amused himself by taxying the machine up and down the runways , testing and running-in the VW engine at the same time . |
| 7 | You show them that it does n't work . |
| 8 | She had never farmed before , and she told me that it did not come easy . |
| 9 | She probably told me and it did n't stick . |
| 10 | Firstly the package did not have to sell itself as it does in self service shopping , since the salesman himself acted to promote the products . |
| 11 | Billy was gon na do something but it did n't work out . |
| 12 | Well the government subsidizes them a lot for , for a start and it 's , again it 's the government , the philosophy of the gover of a government either subsidize something or it does n't , does n't it , and it subsidizes what it |
| 13 | Because it so rarely happens that we all treasure it when it does . |
| 14 | ‘ I think you 've lost hope , and the only thing I can tell you is that if you hang on hope will come back , and you must n't do anything until it does . ’ |
| 15 | The Bank told us that it does not reject applicants for loans unless it has some firm reason ( such as serious doubt about ability to repay ) . |
| 16 | During my recent visit to Libya with George More , a top Scots lawyer , the British community told us that it does not want sanctions or reprisals against the Libyan regime . |
| 17 | This aside , the Tropical Swimming Paradise is an excellent place , forcing you as it does , to revert to the age of ten and act accordingly . |
| 18 | It 's got to be told something before it does it yeah |
| 19 | She may have told him but it did not stop the questions . |
| 20 | Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands . |
| 21 | There was no legislation to enforce the use of the safety lamp and many miners did not like it because it did not give out as much light as a candle . |
| 22 | But if you 've got it and it does n't matter , then you can really show it does n't matter . |
| 23 | er I 'm slightly worried about the effect on the Olympic movement of Atlanta being chosen only in the sense that er that this is the , I think the sixth time in 25 years that a North American city has got it and it does look rather as if the er pressures are now , on the financial side , are now coming very much from the North American continent and I 'm not at all sure that that 's really good for the Olympic movement . |
| 24 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 25 | The important things though are things like who 's gon na tutor them but it does n't actually does it and target dates , completion dates and tests to be done . |
| 26 | I can only assure you that it does help , sometimes . |
| 27 | But I thought you were so experienced that it would n't have affected you as it did me . ’ |
| 28 | But here 's a thought for both men : there are times when a nation has to be persuaded to do something that it does not want to do because its future welfare demands it . |
| 29 | To her astonishment , Sally-Anne , who for two dreadful months had hardly been able to bring herself to be near any man , however young and apparently innocuous , wanted to stroke the corner of his mouth — more , she wanted to smooth the scar away — or , rather , since that was impossible , to run her hand down it and tell him that it did not matter , such a thing could only disturb those who were themselves already disturbed ! |
| 30 | She expected an angry response , and it rather unnerved her when it did n't come . |