Example sentences of "what he did [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ When he 's angry , he acts the fool — you saw what he did to the portrait — but he would n't kill anyone . |
| 6 | After what he did to THE FACE , I do n't see why you should have a picture of him in the magazine . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |