Example sentences of "he had do [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , it could be claimed with some justification that moral considerations were involved in Gandhi 's decision to fast and that he did what he thought he had to do in those situations . |
| 2 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 3 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 4 | When we got him out and he felt refreshed and better about it , he also felt worse because he realized the harm he had done to other youngster and he set about , therefore , trying to help other parents rescue their youngsters out of it . |
| 5 | He assumed the mural was being discarded and took it to his studio , hoping to repair and perhaps eventually sell it , as he had done with other works from that period . |
| 6 | Umpire Bird called Waqar for a second over-shoulder-high bouncer to Smith in his next over , and signalled what he had done with laudable clarity . |
| 7 | He did n't come quite under the heading of despised male sex but she was sure he had done at one time . |
| 8 | Evans flushed and looked far more embarrassed than he had done at any stage so far . |
| 9 | Suddenly Wolves panicked , a minute later , Paul Simpson ran clear , he had done on two previous occasions , and missed good chances . |
| 10 | On the domestic front , the General turned over more power to Pompidou than he had done before 1965 , although he did not abandon domestic politics entirely . |
| 11 | The idea of a Gaullist party had certainly been raised in the aftermath of the liberation — mostly by ex-resisters without a party affiliation — but there is no evidence that de Gaulle gave it any more serious consideration than he had done in 1943 . |
| 12 | What is certain is that Macmillan decided to ignore this powerful objection and acted ( as he had done in 1962 ) with utter determination and dispatch , making a definite recommendation of Home . |
| 13 | His WPC was looking at him anxiously for guidance , but he shook his head at her slightly and waited , standing squarely on both feet as he had done in many trying circumstances before . |
| 14 | The check would have given him more control over the hammers and the freedom to play more powerfully than he had done in 1777 , without making the piano jangle . |
| 15 | On one occasion ( 24 April 1947 ) de Gaulle retrospectively renamed the wartime Resistance the rassemblement du Peuple Français , as though all he had done in 1947 was capitalize it . |
| 16 | Surprisingly , Franco did not make an example of him as he had done in previous such instances of " insubordination " , but appointed him as Ambassador to the Holy See . |
| 17 | He did have the ambition to do more serious work , as he had in Saint Joan and he had done in those early days in rep , but suddenly , he had got sucked into a formula that became a very comfortable rut indeed and , surprisingly for those who thought they knew him well , he did n't want to find a way out . |
| 18 | The man claimed to have learnt self-control , temperance , and forbearance from his observations , and to have ‘ profited more to rule his passions in the rest of his life , than he had done by any thing that he had heard , or read before ’ . |
| 19 | Alex Macdonald , the hard-nosed manager of Airdrie , refused to apologise for his team 's performance in a midweek match against Hibs in Edinburgh any more than he had done after that bewildering semi-final against Hearts at Hampden . |