Example sentences of "do he [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The farmer 's son brought a beautiful mare to be shod ; and after she 'd been done he asked the guv'nor what he thought on her . |
| 2 | In so doing he emphasised the need for accountability at all levels of the system . |
| 3 | As she did he saw the ring on the third finger of her left hand ; the large diamond sparkled brightly . |
| 4 | And did he bring the news ? |
| 5 | He did n't know her , nor did he recognize the handwriting . |
| 6 | He had longed to be reunited with his family from the moment he had learned of his father 's demise — but only now did he recognize the depth of his longing . |
| 7 | When did he when did he choose the car ? |
| 8 | Nor , in the end , did he spare the leader of the Conservative party to which he first attached hirnself , Stanley Baldwin , ‘ the steel merchant metamorphosed into a squire by casual experiments in pig breeding … . |
| 9 | Only at the end , when John saw the futility of this , did he countenance the opposition 's cause . |
| 10 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 11 | Only when his knob was saturated with her gooey love juices did he present the tip of the monster to her dinky young anus . |
| 12 | But for the other versions , the questions would be : ( 9 ) how did he paint the general ? how does she want to play the character ? |
| 13 | What did he do the home run ? |
| 14 | Did he do the job ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Did he send the dream to me , Veth ? ’ |
| 16 | And he , he who was used to the subtle caresses of experienced women , did he want the responsibility of that fearful flesh ? |
| 17 | He did n't want to get on worse terms with his mother , from whom he hoped to get a loan for his holiday in Greece , nor did he want the kind of thing that might have happened , his mother phoning hospitals or getting the police because they could have had an accident in Goblander . |
| 18 | Did he want the truth ? |
| 19 | Did he want the house ? |
| 20 | Why why did he make the move ? |
| 21 | ‘ The Bristol sector controller neither complied with the co-pilot 's specific request for radar navigational assistance , nor did he advise the flight of its position or give any relevant information regarding Southampton , such as current weather , runway in use , pressure settings etc . ’ |
| 22 | He did n't refer to the party , nor did he mention the earring , but the subject seemed to hang over Merrill like the sword of Damocles . |
| 23 | Campbell was little concerned with the lives of ordinary seamen ; nor did he reflect the alarm which many of his contemporaries felt about the sea and the behaviour of those who sailed on it . |
| 24 | Did he eat the dinner ? |
| 25 | Only through his marriage , which for him was unconsciously rooted in an identification with the bereaved , did he create the conditions where it became more difficult to drive out or cut off from the attachment he both yearned for and feared . |
| 26 | Only as Darwin began to form his theories did he realise the error of his ways on board the Beagle . |
| 27 | Only then did he realise the extent of his prize . |
| 28 | Did he think the devil was on the other side of the net ? |
| 29 | What did he think the effects of overcrowding were ? |
| 30 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |