Example sentences of "do [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It do n't do where it come from though mum .
2 I was in agony and I 'd like to know what I should do if it happens again .
3 ‘ You do realize what this could do if it gets out ? ’ he asked .
4 ‘ Yes , what will you do if it goes through ? ’
5 What would you do if it happened ?
6 Goodness knows what we shall do if it needs any alterations , since we have discovered that Ruth is not a needlewoman , and I have far too much to do before we leave . ’
7 ‘ I do n't know what I 'll do if it 's all gone . ’
8 Occasionally a thin savage streak of wiry blue hinted at what the storm could really do if it tried .
9 As Robert Lovett , former Under Secretary of State , told the drafting committee , there was practically nothing that the US could not do if it wanted to .
10 The Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , yesterday disputed the interpretation put on Mr Hurd 's words last Wednesday but refused to say what the Government would do if it lost .
11 And what will you do if it rains and you have n't got your anorak on the deck , Dick ?
12 A technique such as smoothing will not do because it does not ordinarily produce a linear outcome .
13 The Minister asks what Labour will do when it gets the chance to govern .
14 This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin .
15 ‘ What do you do when it does n't rain ? ’
16 Also worried are Taiwan and other neighbouring countries , which wonder what China will do when it has more of its own expensive new toys .
17 It is , rather , the example of what a robust and subtle mind can do when it comes to shifting British planning policy around the table a bit .
18 ‘ Most people in the health service suffer from the feeling there are far too many layers of authority above them and far too many constraints about what people can do when it comes to running their own unit better .
19 Erm in my view the Secretary of State may come to the view on the latest figures that are available for him and erm No that is what I hope he will do when it comes to erm producing regional guidance .
20 That the argument will not do as it stands is , in fact , conceded in the Three Dialogues , where Berkeley allows Hylas to make the point that , although the existence of a sensible thing might consist in its being perceivable ( as in the premiss ) , it does not ( a fixed upon matter … may … forget that there be such things in the world as Spirits … and at last that there is a God , and that their souls are immortal . ’
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