Example sentences of "[subord] he did [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We saw that in terms of history , and we recently saw it in terms of music , although he did a famous U-turn after his cage was rattled , I suspect . |
| 2 | The Devil no more threatens Christians today , we might think , than he did a thousand years ago . |
| 3 | He loved Israel more than he did the Israelis . |
| 4 | Let himself into the kiosk , did n't get any cash , so he did a bit of damage . |
| 5 | Once he did a picture of an old farmer ploughing his field . |
| 6 | Indeed he would be doing so if he did no more than move an item from one place on a shelf to another . |
| 7 | You talk about getting work you talk about getting work and all that sort of thing erm we 've offered John , at one point , that if he did a bit of clearing up in the churchyard erm that he would be given a small amount of money . |
| 8 | Oh , cos he did a couple of nice bits for us in the past |
| 9 | dad cos he did a really good job to do the , the tiling and you see she had seconds tiles |
| 10 | What he was probably saying was that he could not get more money unless he did a lot more teaching , whereas his heart was in his research . |
| 11 | And when I came back , Bobby I gave Grant they and erm he must 've been pretty desperate because he did a wee wee before we left and he did a wee wee before |
| 12 | Because he did a programme actually on the B B C called the ‘ Vermarkt Hour ’ , which was beamed at German troops , and then possibly the third phase was the possibly the psychological warfare . |
| 13 | He uses words like ‘ empathise ’ ( because he did the Interactive deal ) , ‘ supportive ’ and ‘ optimistic ’ when talking about Novell or the USL deal . |
| 14 | Kim Philby , who had got a job at last with SOE and was working to get into SIS , fed rumours to the Russians that Hitler was behind the flight , and wanted Churchill to join him on an eastward march , or at least stay neutral while he did the job himself . |
| 15 | ‘ He even smoked his pipe before he did the job . ’ |
| 16 | Niall took a look at him first thing , when he did a ward round . |
| 17 | A couple of years later , when he did the Playboy interview , he fuelled the controversy by saying exactly what he thought . |
| 18 | He was shaking with nerves when he did the most critical audition of his career — for John Gielgud and The Lady 's Not For Burning — and yet he forced himself through it . |
| 19 | Uncle Albert told her that when he did the weeding , he always imagined himself as some great monster uprooting trees and scaring the tiny people hiding under the stones . |
| 20 | from Pilkingtons and there 's little , she said you would n't notice it but there 's little like , little things on and when he did the grouting yesterday she said that she said it was awful , she did n't like it at all so she told him this morning |
| 21 | When , for example , establishment actor Raymond Massey saw James Dean in action for the first time on the set of East of Eden , emitting as he did a stream of sexual and genital adjectives , Massey stormed off the set declaring , ‘ I have never experienced anything like this in my entire life . |
| 22 | The man who joined Lascubé in his early bath , hooker Vincent Moscato , has forsaken the rugby pitch to take up his other favourite pastime , boxing , just as he did a couple of years ago when suspended after being sent off in a club match . |
| 23 | He winked at me as he did a Gary Cooper out of the room . |
| 24 | John rolled his eyes as he did a rough calculation . |
| 25 | The dancers cleared a path as he did a Gene Kelly , relaxed and skilful right there in the middle of the dance floor . |
| 26 | When he talked about the " transformation " of Algeria , as he did a great deal in 1959 and 1960 , de Gaulle slipped back into the rhetoric of his other association idea ( labour-capital association ) , a rhetoric which was influenced by the social catholicism of his early years . |
| 27 | Tom 's latest acquisition is EMF 's Unbelievable and he makes the song as much his own as he did a few years ago with Prince 's Kiss . |
| 28 | On October 29 1989 , just as he did every Sunday , 17-year-old New Yorker Donald White trundled his mother 's laundry basket to the local Wash-O-Rama . |
| 29 | Henry told Donald some of this , as he did every time he and Donald used the pub , and Donald nodded and smiled and said : ‘ Really ! |
| 30 | As he did every time Henry told him these things . |