Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Empiricism , as a theory of how we acquire concepts , requires there to be something which is both a ‘ state of consciousness ’ and such that it does not have logical conditions , that is , is unlike a would-be belief . |
| 2 | The September night was hot and humid but it did not perturb Constance as she struggled through the crowds of noisy , gesticulating passengers purposefully carrying cardboard boxes , mattresses and crates of chickens down the long platform . |
| 3 | Although it will probably never be a picture postcard village , during the last two or three years some farmers have started to replace the hedges that were removed a generation ago , and to plant trees , so perhaps in years to come the parish will again look something like the pictures of it in days gone by , less bleak and windswept than it does today . |
| 4 | And once we 've clipped the nails , we actually file the nail so that it 's nice and smooth and it does n't catch on your tights or it does n't catch on the sheets at night . |
| 5 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 6 | Washing carefully around the anus is helpful and hygienic but it does n't remove the health risks completely . |
| 7 | If Sunset Beach , Banzai Pipeline , and Waimea Bay are the holy trinity of the thirty-odd North Shore breaks , Waimea is the Father , the holy of holies : slow to rise , but majestic and terrible when it does . |
| 8 | About two million workers had come out in support of the miners , a number which represented almost half the total which the TUC could have called out in support of the miners — and more than it did . |
| 9 | At last , with a little shaking of his arm , and thrice his head waving up and down , he raises a sigh so piteous and profound that it does seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being . |
| 10 | Secondly , the gift must be made upon the condition that it is to be absolute and perfected only on the donor 's death , being revocable until that event occurs and ineffective if it does not . |
| 11 | On March 5 , 1986 , the bank hired a male candidate who obtained a mark of 46.50 and subsequently it hired another six male candidates who had obtained marks between 46.50 and 42 while it did not hire the claimant , a woman who had obtained a mark of 48 . |
| 12 | And so happy and excited that it did not occur to her to worry about the devastating effect Paula was having on Edward . |