Example sentences of "he [verb] do [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Now he planned to do the same with the female cub , who had been given the most unleopard-like name of Harriet .
2 He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral .
3 She is indeed ready to die , and it is a difficulty that Justin may feel that he has to do the same .
4 who comes two years later when he has to do the same price again and it costs him money or her .
5 ‘ He was trying to make what was already there work and we believe he has done a reasonable job in the circumstances . ’
6 Over the years he has done a marvellous job enthusiastically promoting the theatre and bringing world-class productions to local audiences in spite of the difficulties posed by the Troubles .
7 The appointment of Bernard Gallacher as British National Coach three years ago , was another boost for the women 's game — ‘ He has done a great deal of good , ’ confirmed Sally Hepburn — and the LGU was delighted when the Wentworth professional agreed to continue his duties this season , despite the distraction of captaining the European Ryder Cup side at Kiawah Island in September .
8 He has done a great deal of important work to expose the problem and to help us find a solution to it .
9 I think he has done a great job on his return to the side . ’
10 Is the Minister aware that he has done a useful service to the House in spelling out the inadequacies of so many of our public services after 12 years under Tory management ?
11 He has done a little bit of manipulation here and there but overall it will not boost the economy .
12 The fragment was must likely the left clavicle or collarbone of a hominoid , he said . Boaz says that he has done no more than suggest that the 75–5 mm bone , found in March 1979 at Sahabi in Libya , was from the ‘ superfamily ’ Hominoidea
13 He has done an immoral thing because he felt guilty about not taking the children to Disneyland all those years ago .
14 He has done an enormous amount of hard and soft thinking , but most of it about the stimuli to which he is responding , and the rest about whether he is being honest with himself as to how he is responding .
15 He has done an excellent job , ’ Wanless says .
16 All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before .
17 So this particular day at Old Newton , just before he started , he stopped to do the usual : get a good light on his owd pipe .
18 He 'd done no more than accidentally bump against some sailors aimlessly wandering from the passage next to the warehouse .
19 Once in the Essoldo Cinema a lad had moved away when he 'd done no more than offer him a piece of chocolate in the darkness .
20 I think he 'd done a few Compact 's up to then , but he was marvellous .
21 He said he 'd done a wonderful job in very difficult circumstances .
22 Bacci was n't sure if he 'd done the right thing .
23 And he 'd done the right thing in getting that wallet back to Blackbeard , because Blackbeard was horribly evil and would have come after them if Joe had n't been sensible .
24 William sat by the phone for a long while after he had called Preston , wondering if he 'd done the right thing .
25 He 'd done the right thing .
26 By the final whistle he 'd done the sensible thing and switched to Gazza .
27 He itched to do the latter , but common sense prevailed ; he had seen how uncomfortable were the lives of other guys who had done that , either to marry too young or go it alone .
28 I thought ‘ What 's the other person going to put down , is he going to do the same ?
29 Monza was to be decisive for his championship , and Ken Tyrrell has written that it was Jackie 's finest race , not least because he knew he led the championship and because , having already decided to retire , he needed to do no more than the minimum , particularly since he was starting only from sixth place on the grid .
30 Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came .
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