Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really . |
| 2 | He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire . |
| 3 | When in Colossians 1:9ff Paul prays for Christians he has never met , his first request is that the Spirit would give them understanding of the Lord 's will for their lives ; then , that they should live their lives in accordance with that will by pleasing the Lord in everything ; then , that they should increase in their knowledge of God ; and finally , that they should be strengthened with all might according to the measure of his glorious power which should result for them as it did for Christ , not in arrogance but in patience and longsuffering . |
| 4 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 5 | As Mr Cameron puts it , ‘ At the very time when most people want and need mobility — during the morning and evening peak periods — the system actually carries fewer of them than it does at various off-peak times . ’ |
| 6 | It must be an a , because he , he , he , he said he 'd got chance of one but it did whacking great six inch er sixteen inch wheels on ! |
| 7 | ‘ And what happens if it lasts longer for one of us than it does for the other ? ’ |
| 8 | " And a good thing for you that it does , " said Clelia , with a sudden asperity , " or you 'd be out on your ear . |
| 9 | I 'll keep it for you if it does . |
| 10 | And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ |
| 11 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |
| 12 | Er , summat had ran into back of bus , I do n't know what it 'd done to , whatever behind us but it did n't hurt bus . |
| 13 | He had come home on 30 March and , referring to Sutherland , had told her : ‘ That bastard had the cheek to lose the head with me because it did not work . |
| 14 | Joined possibly joined in with them although it does n't actually say . |
| 15 | ‘ I started with nothing and it did n't do any harm , ’ she said , in the look-at-me-now manner of the comfortably off . |
| 16 | The main thing is they do n't inform you of what 's happening now until it 's happened and then they say , oh well , we did n't need to consultate with you cos it does n't affect your members . |
| 17 | Press reporting focused as much on the reports about other women who had had sex with him as it did on the events to which he pleaded guilty . |
| 18 | As far as one can tell from his letters , he was pleased with it although it did not sell . |
| 19 | The official regatta has virtually nothing to do with it but it does give farmers with riverside frontage an extra source of income … which has reached six figures , although not this year . |
| 20 | Coming upon me as it did , however , in the midst of such a busy period , I could not afford to let it preoccupy me unduly , and I thus decided I should resolve it at the earliest opportunity . |
| 21 | Discourse treats the rules of grammar as a resource , conforming to them when it needs to , but departing from them when it does not . |
| 22 | If anyone is currently fighting a case such as this , I would also be pleased to hear from them as it does seem to me that the Revenue is using its muscle to try to remove one of the benefits of independent taxation . |
| 23 | ‘ Being the eternal replacement is not only a bit boring in itself but it does damage . |
| 24 | What distinguishes W. from them , and what with all respect I do not think that Thorpe J. took sufficiently into account ( perhaps because the point did not emerge as clearly before him as it did before us ) , is that it is a feature of anorexia nervosa that it is capable of destroying the ability to make an informed choice . |
| 25 | They did bring out Times Small Ads and I did try and do a Bible in it but it did n't work . |
| 26 | its all just grey , loads of grey in it and it did n't look streaked , it did look natural . |
| 27 | Is it , nevertheless , true that there are no limits upon the power of Parliament to pass laws , and no controls upon it when it does so ? |
| 28 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 29 | He has a dynamic personality and musical discrimination , and without exception the orchestra played much better for him than it did for the ballet conductor , Viktor Fedotov . |
| 30 | I am working on a replacement for him as it does not look as though he will be available until June . ’ |