Example sentences of "[conj] he do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's nice that he does that — you know , comes and feeds the birds like that . |
| 2 | was of a description which it would be reasonable to expect him to obtain in the ordinary course of that business , and that he does that thing in good faith in the course of that business . ’ |
| 3 | Leopold 's letters to his wife reveal much about what could be expected on the journey and from them one gains the impression that he did most of the planning for these trips : |
| 4 | In his evidence at the subsequent trial , Paisley maintained that he did this to keep the parade moving and hence diffuse tension . |
| 5 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 6 | It was clear that he did this every day , and Meredith could imagine what a shock her letter would have been when he 'd thought that Antonio 's son was on his way to claim his inheritance . |
| 7 | Well football pools are a splendid started because recently somebody has won just over nine hundred thousand pounds , and it 's interesting to note that he did this without exercising too much skill , as I 'm sure he 'd be the first to admit , because he enters the same numbers every week . |
| 8 | Oh it 's not fair that he did some |
| 9 | My sister — the one just younger than me — and I used to share all the jobs in the house — if she washed up one day I did the drying up and so on , but when my grandad came to live with us , he thought the world of her so he did all her jobs , and she 'd come to me and taunt me , and that used to incense me . |
| 10 | And this how li , this is how God spreads the gospel , this is how he spreads his message through his people through using his pe , using in the very best sense of the word , he does n't make use of us he involves us in his work , and so , he saves us , he satisfies us and then he sends us forth , and he does that with this woman . |
| 11 | Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing . |
| 12 | Rochlin ‘ feminizes ’ masculinity to just the degree required to rehabilitate it as the dominant term in the masculine/feminine binary , and he does this through the by now familiar move of positing homosexuality as the inadequate yet threatening third term . |
| 13 | Then , in Capital , Marx attempts to break through and out of the veil of economic ideology , and he does this by showing that the way the economy is usually talked about hides the real basis of society and served to maintain the exploitation on which it rests . |
| 14 | Robbins 's purpose here is to define theatre as the quality of his narration as well as the subject-matter , and he does this by introducing three author-surrogates . |
| 15 | I point out some nice pink stocks and he does this huge shudder and goes ‘ Uuuuuugggh . ’ |
| 16 | The ‘ proactive ’ fishkeeper will medicate with malachite green and formalin , every spring and autumn , to bring down populations of protozoan parasites , and he does this irrespective of whether or not the fish are showing signs of discomfort . |
| 17 | Mind you , he runs the skittles and he runs football and he does this and runs that . |
| 18 | I , I need it to help me to get to Hanley or something like that and , and he does this all the time , and I look at him and I think well you know fancy being like that , surely we 're in a welfare state , there 's no need for that , I do n't know what his circumstances are , he may be homeless , I do n't know where he comes from and he just appears there and he carries on as if he loves the job , and that 's only in this country , but if you go abroad , many of you have been abroad have n't you ? |
| 19 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |
| 20 | ROS : And he does both . |
| 21 | He basically composes music for electric guitars , and he does some wild things . |
| 22 | You know finished their done their card and he did that in about er four da er five days it was . |
| 23 | Yes , that 's right , after three months , yes , and he did that ? |
| 24 | So the man needed a way of showing how wealthy he was , and he did that by having a large house , by having lots of servants , and also by dressing his wife , I mean by having a wife who did n't have to work , who could stay at home , and wore clothes to show this , so you get the beginning of incredibly impractical clothes which showed that the woman obviously did n't do any work , because it was completely impossible to do any . |
| 25 | As erm as a doctor , Bill , I have ingrained on my heart Aneurin Bevan 's words when the National Health Service was introduced in this country by the post-war Labour government , against the wishes of my colleagues , and he commented that he would erm cross our palms with silver , and he did that very successfully , with the result that he stifled a lot of opposition amongst some very powerful people , and erm of course when you 're trying to introduce a new scheme such as this and you 're terribly keen that erm it should take off and be successful , you do , of course , cross palms with silver . |
| 26 | He is a bright , intelligent young lad and he did all the right things . |
| 27 | And he did all he could to make the food bad , except what he ate himself . |
| 28 | stuff , I said he swept the hall , I said look how nice it looks this morning , I said and he did all the toilets and everything else |
| 29 | His easy , natural style made his works compulsive reading and he did much to explain the maritime world to the public ashore . |
| 30 | Gandhi 's great achievement , when all was said and done , was to get the British to pay attention to him , and he did this , first by appealing to their weakness , in threatening the loss of the collaboration on which they depended , and second by appealing to their vanity . |