Example sentences of "he do it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did it through sheer will-power , Peter had told her admiringly . |
| 2 | He had come to it relatively late in his short life , having dulled the joys of promiscuity , music and organization early on , and like everything else he took an interest in , he did it with terrifying brilliance . |
| 3 | He managed to turn Llewelyn 's imposing new title , compounded of the old sacred name for a reassurance to the Welsh , and the added flourish for English ears that had scarcely heard of Aberffraw , into a satirical comment , but he did it with great delicacy . |
| 4 | Charlotte was counting the seconds until he should extricate himself , and he did it in less time than she had expected , and without even the pretence of sitting down with her . |
| 5 | Persuading others to accept the hard financial facts of life is not usually a very popular job , but he does it with great tact and skill , and under his guidance I do believe that our deficit is under control , and that it will be reduced . |
| 6 | If he does it without any help I shall be totally amazed and I think that it 's simply a facility to assume that there 're gon na be reductions in bureaucracy simply by centralising because the record from the past shows that the reverse is the case . |