Example sentences of "he do it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did he do it to thwart his father ? |
| 2 | It was OK though , he did it skydiving — what a relief ! |
| 3 | He did n't say much , but when he did it knocked you off your feet . |
| 4 | As the years went by , Dexter saw the look less frequently but when he did it irked him as much as ever . |
| 5 | He did it to protect Lennie from being killed a frightened man , by someone like Curley . |
| 6 | I love the passage ( Numbers 14:15-17 ) where Moses craftily dissuades God from killing his own people by suggesting other people will think he did it to cover up his inability to get them to the promised land . |
| 7 | ‘ Even if he did it seems a bit far-fetched to think he could do anything about it . |
| 8 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |
| 9 | ‘ He did it like a decent horse , and is still improving , ’ said Nicholson , whose career is on the crest of a wave at present . |
| 10 | Perhaps he did it to please the Patriarch . |
| 11 | Perhaps he did it to hear Mother scream . |
| 12 | Well he does it does n't he ? |
| 13 | However , utterances of ( 38 ) -(40) and the like can in fact convey a great deal : ( 38 ) War is war ( 39 ) Either John will come or he wo n't ( 40 ) If he does it , he does it Note that these , by virtue of their logical forms ( respectively : x ( W(x) — W(x) ) ; p V p ; p — p ) are necessarily true ; ergo they share the same truth conditions , and the differences we feel to lie between them , as well as their communicative import , must be almost entirely due to their pragmatic implications . |