Example sentences of "he did a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did a similar job on the plumbing . |
| 2 | up on their behalf so the message got through it would have been nice if we 'd got ten at Talking Headlines this room takes ten comfortably um but Jack had done his homework he did a super presentation had everybody rolling around in |
| 3 | Then he did a terrible thing . |
| 4 | I suppose he did a great service by making people laugh with those outrageous characters rather than at them . ’ |
| 5 | For the headmaster he did a great act as the old-style schoolboy of the boys ’ weeklies : ‘ Play up , play up , and play the game ’ , and all that kind of thing . |
| 6 | He did a great deal of walking . |
| 7 | When he talked about the " transformation " of Algeria , as he did a great deal in 1959 and 1960 , de Gaulle slipped back into the rhetoric of his other association idea ( labour-capital association ) , a rhetoric which was influenced by the social catholicism of his early years . |
| 8 | ‘ He did a great job just sitting in there and keeping everything tight — and he never stopped shouting and goading the youngsters . ’ |
| 9 | He did a great job first time out ( no smilies ) . |
| 10 | Nothing lucky about Ken Veysey 's goal-keeping , though — he did a great job and kept United afloat with some superb saves . |
| 11 | It is a drawing of a girl ( young woman ) , a nude , not like anything else of his I have seen , and I think it must be something he did a long time ago . |
| 12 | John rolled his eyes as he did a rough calculation . |
| 13 | He did a poor audition . |
| 14 | He did a hanging routine on his TV show that went wrong . |
| 15 | The next day he went for a long walk , about 20 miles , during which he did a good deal of clear thinking in the mountains . |
| 16 | He did a good job , but Bob Bolder in the Charlton goal did it even better . |
| 17 | Council leader Richard Short said : ‘ He did a good job for us when he was town crier and he just seems to have got himself dreadfully mixed up . |
| 18 | He did a good job there and also at Plymouth and now he can do a good job for us . |
| 19 | Because , well he did a good job ! |
| 20 | he did a good job on it , good job |
| 21 | He did a good job with that milk did n't he ? |
| 22 | Ah , L L Leslie , yes , he he he did a tremendous amount of work for the er er for the L Labour party . |
| 23 | He did a real blitz on the electrics . |
| 24 | We saw that in terms of history , and we recently saw it in terms of music , although he did a famous U-turn after his cage was rattled , I suspect . |
| 25 | this was with a pair of glasses he took off , he did n't do a very good Michael Caine , he did er Jimmy Greaves and er Dennis Nordon , Gazza really fucking well you know , he did a brilliant Robin Williams |
| 26 | He says they ca n't praise Chris enough — he did a brilliant job . |
| 27 | He did a rapid calculation . |
| 28 | He did a funny thing . |
| 29 | Yes er he eventually er I in fact spoke to a Detective Inspector er at the police station er he informed me that er Detective Constable had a good knowledge of these persons and I therefore instructed that er D C make contact with me which he did a short time later that evening . |
| 30 | He did a sprightly two-step , twirled , and was off across the lawn , shouting , ‘ Come on , Darken . |