Example sentences of "he [vb past] do [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
2 | He began doing them in the earliest days of his career down on Coenties Slip in the late Fifties ( where the drawing classes held in Fred Mitchell 's loft became legendary ) and has kept steadily at them ever since . |
3 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
4 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
5 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
6 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
7 | He had done it in the street in front of everyone . |
8 | In 1985 a smooth man ’ , a ‘ sophisticated hustler ’ appeared in Washington and approached North , saying he wanted to do something for the contras . |