Example sentences of "he did [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On October 29 1989 , just as he did every Sunday , 17-year-old New Yorker Donald White trundled his mother 's laundry basket to the local Wash-O-Rama . |
| 2 | Henry told Donald some of this , as he did every time he and Donald used the pub , and Donald nodded and smiled and said : ‘ Really ! |
| 3 | As he did every time Henry told him these things . |
| 4 | He had booked for the full residential weekend , as he did every time one was held . |
| 5 | At a certain time he would drive past that house , as he did every second day , and the position of his driver 's window , fully up , half-lowered or fully down , would convey to the watcher the thing he needed to know . |
| 6 | When Joe was in the shop , the first think he did every morning was to place a copy of Irish Fairy Tales , by W.B. Yeats , in a corner of the window ; when he left in the evening or for lunch , the book was removed . |
| 7 | For cooking and drinking all the coolies had to use brackish water from the mosquito-infested streams that flowed sluggishly through the plantation , and Hoc wondered , as he did every time he found himself shivering , whether he too might have contracted the dreaded fever . |
| 8 | He was hurt because the reputation he prized , perhaps most of all , of being an all-round expert on the farm would now be jeopardized : and when Walter Cater met the horseman he admired most in the district , as he did every Sunday morning , he was asked quite seriously : ‘ What ! |
| 9 | Her father was busy looking at the Evening News , as he did every evening after tea . |
| 10 | When one of his female children died , my father would eat his supper , my mother would wash his legs , and then he would go to sleep , just as he did every night . |
| 11 | He did a great deal of walking . |
| 12 | All 180 kids gathered right at his feet and he did a completely different show from any show that he 'd done in the sell-out places for five or six thousand . |
| 13 | He did a really intimate show where he sat on the edge of the stage with his ankles crossed and talked to them and sang them songs . |
| 14 | Let himself into the kiosk , did n't get any cash , so he did a bit of damage . |
| 15 | He did a little planning and on the next afternoon , in spite of the restrictions on his movements , he was able to keep his word . |
| 16 | He did a runner on her , turned up here with a split bone or two , which I fixed , and then he headed off again . ’ |
| 17 | Neither went to university , though he did a one-year course in accounting at Bristol Polytechnic . |
| 18 | On his return home in the late 1950s he did a stint as a tea planter in Assam , before becoming an executive with a private firm in Bombay . |
| 19 | After two years in Transport Command , he did a stint as deputy director of equipment . |
| 20 | He did a quick sum . |
| 21 | When , for example , establishment actor Raymond Massey saw James Dean in action for the first time on the set of East of Eden , emitting as he did a stream of sexual and genital adjectives , Massey stormed off the set declaring , ‘ I have never experienced anything like this in my entire life . |
| 22 | So he did a lot of that , for nothing . |
| 23 | What he was probably saying was that he could not get more money unless he did a lot more teaching , whereas his heart was in his research . |
| 24 | Later he did a lot of work for that curious Radio 3 Arts programme , ‘ New Premises ’ . |
| 25 | After he had crossed the line he did a somersault in celebration . |
| 26 | He did a lot for the children , warmed and warming in his need to hold and touch them . |
| 27 | Instantly he did a lightning U-turn and set out back to the stables , leaving Perdita swearing on the stone-hard ground while all the onlookers roared with laughter and Alejandro shouted in broken English at her . |
| 28 | PRINCE Charles put the royal blues behind him yesterday when he did a spell of hard time . |
| 29 | He did a find job despite the slow pace of the game which did not suit his style . |
| 30 | He did a fine job despite the slow pace of the game , which did not suit his style . |