Example sentences of "he did [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tall lean figure with deep lines carved vertically down his brown cheeks , he came into the office looking as cool as he did on a winter 's day . |
| 2 | He came to his front door to say goodbye , which he did with a handshake and a slight bow . |
| 3 | In the interval his coach Robert Ellis told Hopper to work harder and he did with a vengeance . |
| 4 | Well he did a he did for a bit . |
| 5 | One of the simplest and most elegant demonstrations of this was by Peter Lawrence , as part of the work he did for a Ph.D at Cambridge . |
| 6 | What did you say he did for a living ? ’ |
| 7 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ken may have been well into his thirties now , but he still saw things very much as he did as a youngster , as though the editor he had played in The Buccaneer had been reincarnated into the Kenneth Williams starring — and now there was no other word for it ; that was precisely what he was doing — in Share My Lettuce . |
| 14 | She 'll probably also tell us about Tony the Toddler putting domestos in the jelly , or whatever embarrassing things he did as a kid . |
| 15 | He was looking skywards the way he did as a player : he would flick at the ball with the outside of his left foot while leaning back looking at the sky . |
| 16 | A series of ornate gilt mouldings on the walls funnels down towards the brocaded red curtain , arranged into rectangles like the huge old picture frames in Mr Fuller 's house , surrounding the dark oil paintings he did as a student and smuggled out of Belgium when he settled here after the Great War . |
| 17 | This he did behind a barn , using an axe ; but found only plates and dishes in the case . |
| 18 | He was accused of the crime of murder and manslaughter which is reputed odious and atrocious , severely punishable with loss of life and confiscation of the movable property of the committer thereof , that he did upon a day in the previous September unknown with force and violence cast and throw one CHRISTIAN McMILLAN the wife of DONALD McKENZIE in Ellister over a rock at Ellister shore , where they had gone to collect shellfish , into the deep sea where she was immediately drowned and died . |
| 19 | I asked my own surgeon how many of these prostate operations he did in a year , and he said around four hundred . |
| 20 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |
| 21 | Death he did not fear , pride he did not possess ; he had no position or property , living as he did in a tub . |
| 22 | General Miguel Maza Marquez , chief of the investigative police and one of the traffickers ' most vocal critics , escaped unharmed as he did from a car bomb attack last May in which seven people were killed and 50 wounded . |
| 23 | General Miguel Maza Marquez , chief of the investigative police and one of the traffickers ' most vocal critics , escaped unharmed as he did from a car bomb attack last May in which seven people were killed . |
| 24 | Er , he did after a while because there just are n't that many people who run round the N E C who look me in July , but erm , there were conventions earlier in the year , but it , it , you know , I got , actually a very reasonable size of contract out of this man , from that thirty second note I made on the calendar . |