Example sentences of "[conj] he do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theo took a shorter journey - to Wormwood Scrubs , where he did four months ' hard labour . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Is n't that window-cleaner coming more often than he did last year ? |
| 5 | The Fellow seemed to run his race , as he beat Docklands Express further than he did last year . ’ |
| 6 | I 've heard him say how he went to sea and he done two voyages . |
| 7 | And erm and he did this sermon so the next bloke he came from Kent somewhere er he was a miner or a miner 's delegate and he could really speak you know , arms waving and all that and he was a real preacher . |
| 8 | And he did wonderful things with my clockwork trains that I never thought of doing . ’ |
| 9 | So he got Times Roman headlines in , very simple layout , and he did some caps bold , and then he said to me he had done all the headlines ragged and I said you just missed one thing — centre the heads . |
| 10 | And he did last week or the week before . |
| 11 | Most often he falters by trying to second-guess himself and his audience , and sound like he did 10 years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh yeah , hanging around moonfaced like he did ten years ago , all ill-fitting clothes and two halves of shandy because he had his pushbike with him . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Arazi has been working like his old self and I hope he can go back to America for the Breeders Cup and win like he did last year . ’ |
| 14 | An individual is not , by reason of having information relating to any particular transaction , prohibited by sections 1(2) , ( 4 ) ( b ) , ( 5 ) , or ( 6 ) from dealing on a recognised stock exchange and by s.1(7) and 1(8) from counselling , procuring , or communicating that information , if he does that thing in order to facilitate the completion or carrying out of the transaction . |
| 15 | a man of trained hand , eye , and brain ; disciplined and good mannered ; of sound muscle and fully developed lungs ; with a general knowledge of common tools and simple machines ; able to read a plan and make a drawing to scale ; ready to undertake any kind of unspecialised work , ; and competent , even if he does unskilled work , to do it ‘ with his head ’ . |
| 16 | And we asked him if he did civil action . |
| 17 | If he did two miles in half an hour , how far would he go in one hour ? |
| 18 | I say to him , if he did more gardening , more real gardening , more digging , he would keep more lissom . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know when he had last closed his eyes with a clear conscience but he did that day . |
| 20 | He smashed the windscreen with one bullet and Adam felt a sliver of glass cut into his cheek , but he did little other damage . |
| 21 | When he does this property will pass . |
| 22 | The strain of all this told , especially when he did such things as going on a submarine foray to the Bay of Biscay while the French coast was still in German hands . |
| 23 | It 's like erm that leisure , I mean he 's obviously learned his lesson when he did that competition that time did n't he and he , he went in and he passed did n't he ? |
| 24 | ‘ They know as he does that 75pc of the cigarettes manufactured in Darlington go abroad . |
| 25 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 26 | He had come as he did each day with bread from the baker 's iron oven that stood open to the lane in the souk . |
| 27 | He hated pettiness as much as he did superficial quotation . |
| 28 | The sundial was a small object and , once the Earl had detached it ( as he did many years earlier ) from its pedestal , it ceased to be part of the realty . |
| 29 | If the Prince of Wales had not stood up and spoken as he did that day , the government might have remained entrenched on the subject for considerably longer than it was . |
| 30 | She did not speak — she knew better — but walked into the kitchen , thinking furiously , among other things , that her treasure had not looked so happy and fulfilled for years as he did sitting opposite to his American servant girl — and what could that mean , and did she approve ? |