Example sentences of "he do [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Carnelian had goaded Jaq , wishing him to do exactly that , wanting him to attack the hydra in the axe-swinging style of an Obispal . |
| 2 | I thought it would be interesting to ask him to do just that and hereby present … |
| 3 | In which case , someone had sent him to do just that . |
| 4 | This strength which enabled him to do so much for his country against the Philistine overlords was not his own . |
| 5 | Skipper David Graveney said : ‘ Brown 's problem could be the result of him doing too much bowling , and underlines the need for us to rotate our bowlers . |
| 6 | In the second session Prost improved and Damon ran into brake problems which left him doing very few laps , none of which was faster than his Friday effort . |
| 7 | The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems . |
| 8 | He did exactly that , little knowing that he was about to stumble upon one of the greatest discoveries of this century . |
| 9 | ‘ He did n't 'alf like them , he said he 'd give me a penny every time I showed them . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm glad he did n't that night . ’ |
| 11 | He did n't that . |
| 12 | His Dad insisted he locked his bike , but he did n't this time . |
| 13 | He did n't half go into him with his stick . |
| 14 | Naturally , he tried to hush it up after , but your dad got to hear of it from the doctor and he did n't half go for Josh — you can imagine . |
| 15 | Procter 's anger at this annoyed Lloyd so much that he told his captain he was going to hit him over the pavilion ; and he did just that — next ball . |
| 16 | He did just that . |
| 17 | ( Look back at the Cliff Gallup solos we covered in June and July and you 'll notice he did just that , too . ) |
| 18 | This prompted an unusually animated argument between counsel and the judge , who was clearly outraged at what he expressly called the crass incompetence of the Crown Prosecution Service in serving and making part of the prosecution case a witness they knew would support the defendant and then seeking to discontinue when predictably he did just that . |
| 19 | As the fight progressed , Ferguson sensed he could beat the overconfident Mercer and he did just that on points in New York on February 6 . |
| 20 | He did just that . |
| 21 | And six months later he did just that . |
| 22 | This is becoming about as routine as Cal Peete leading driving accuracy , which he did again this year , hitting 753 out of 900 . |
| 23 | This time he came with nine ships , and a determination to win agreement from the Japanese — and he did precisely that , concluding a treaty of peace and friendship that — unknown to all its signatories — was to have consequences of shattering proportions . |
| 24 | He did precisely that , on the Day of Pentecost ; and the gift has never been withdrawn . |
| 25 | And he did far more than help them just to survive . |
| 26 | In his letter of acceptance he wrote , ‘ I gladly accept and I shall do all I can for you , ’ and he did literally that . |
| 27 | If , in the years to follow , he did relatively little to help the Valois war effort , his defection greatly angered the English who reacted in strongly emotional terms to what they regarded as an act of betrayal and treason against the English crown . |
| 28 | I er I phoned him up to let him know I was going in and he 's not too far away you see so asked him if he 'd like to pop in so he did about half eleven . |
| 29 | He did very little work himself , but bullied everybody who did . |
| 30 | He was a rugged but skilful wing-half , first for Oxford City where he had his roots , and latterly for Corinthian Casuals , a club embodying the Corinthian spirit he did so much to preserve . |