Example sentences of "what he do [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least , Punch did to me what he does to the horses in the spring . |
| 2 | And how old he is , what he does for a living , how much he 's got in the bank — and probably whether he 's twice divorced with a string of children tucked away somewhere . ’ |
| 3 | " Know what he does for a living ? " |
| 4 | You do n't even know what he does for a living properly ! ’ |
| 5 | Now we 're going to see what he does for the economy , what he does for the underclass , and so on |
| 6 | Now we 're going to see what he does for the economy , what he does for the underclass , and so on |
| 7 | What he does with the power is bound to be upsetting . |
| 8 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 9 | So he 's gon na ask them what he does about the vibrating . |
| 10 | By the means/ends equation , I mean the assumption that what the learner has eventually to achieve by way of language ability should determine what he does in the process of acquiring that ability . |
| 11 | The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people . |
| 12 | Say what you like about his awful presence , he could gain a not inconsiderable reputation for what he does in the comfort of his den . |
| 13 | Reid developed a rather more interesting objection , one made earlier by Berkeley , which puts the case of a general who is conscious of things he did as an officer , but no longer conscious , as he was when an officer , of what he did as a boy . |
| 14 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 15 | Not necessarily for what he did on the pitch , although the trickery and goals certainly helped but more importantly the presence of the man , and excitement he inspired amongst his colleagues . |
| 16 | Within a very short time several of those who were disappointed at his election swung over to gratitude for his coming and enthusiasm for what he did to the faculty . |
| 17 | ‘ When he 's angry , he acts the fool — you saw what he did to the portrait — but he would n't kill anyone . |
| 18 | After what he did to THE FACE , I do n't see why you should have a picture of him in the magazine . |
| 19 | Rafsanjani declared in a Tehran press conference on June 6 that the Iranian government had " not responded negatively " to the Iraqi approach , and that " when Iraq sent the letters we were hopeful that Saddam Hussein had serious intentions " , but that " what he did at the Baghdad summit shook our confidence " . |
| 20 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 21 | With England ‘ B ’ , his brief was to bring on young players and to keep fringe members of the England squad ticking over , rather than to aim to win every gage , and that 's what he did with the result that a whole crop of younger Englishmen — Back , Moon and Rodber , to name but three — are ready to make the transition to the full England team . |
| 22 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 23 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |
| 24 | Preston , in the idle early hours when he was n't watching fifties horror movies , sometimes speculated on what kind of person he was and what he did for a living . |
| 25 | He looked elegantly at home , quite above this sort of thing , and she could n't help wondering who he actually was and what he did for a living . |
| 26 | And those who worked with him on ecumenical committees knew that this was nothing like so rigid an Anglo-Catholic as sometimes he was portrayed ; and remembered what he did for the Methodists and other non-Anglicans in Durham . |
| 27 | It drew to an end in April 1964 with Mr Mandela 's four-hour speech from the dock , in which he defended the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe and said he had done what he did for the ideal of a free and democratic society , ‘ an ideal for which I am prepared to die ’ . |
| 28 | What he did during the day she did not know but , he 'd told them , it was quite possible to be out four nights a week as a hired butler . |
| 29 | The idea of finding out about the , the batsman was what he did in the cricket team , so that when I mentioned that I could say |
| 30 | Do n't get me wrong , I do n't condone what he did in the Widnes-Castleford game . |