Example sentences of "he did [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , he was loved for his own great ability , his loyalty to his teams , his concern for youngsters and all the other good work he did off the pitch , and for his warm , relaxed character that made him friends in many places . |
| 2 | You just have to list his track record , the number of firsts and very innovative things that he did down the line . |
| 3 | No old bomber pilot , making a forced landing with no wheels , on a load of unused bombs , could possibly have felt as bad as he did at the moment . |
| 4 | Sometimes , if taking an initiative in an area he deemed crucial , he would take the chair , as he did at the Reflation Committee in 1958 . |
| 5 | Whittingham was invited by the A.O.C. to take over 261 Squadron from him , which he did at the start of May . |
| 6 | BAKER SAYS that although he 's done all sorts of jobs since — mostly on telly — he 's never ‘ had a time ’ like he did at the NME . |
| 7 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 8 | On giving up as a player , Ken was a natural choice for chairman and , as he did at the end of every subsequent season , promised sweeping changes and League football by 1992 . |
| 9 | At least she would n't either bully or patronise him , his usual lot amongst the cathedral clergy , ranking as he did at the very bottom of the cathedral hierarchy . |
| 10 | Rafsanjani declared in a Tehran press conference on June 6 that the Iranian government had " not responded negatively " to the Iraqi approach , and that " when Iraq sent the letters we were hopeful that Saddam Hussein had serious intentions " , but that " what he did at the Baghdad summit shook our confidence " . |
| 11 | And the whole book is really about er the Versailles conference in a way , is n't it , and about why he behaved the way he did at the time . |
| 12 | She loved this man and she knew more than he did at the moment . |
| 13 | yeah yeah he did at the Co-Op |
| 14 | He did not do himself justice in 1991 , never getting his timing right in his early-season preparations any more than he did on the golf course . |
| 15 | He did on the 9th green in the last round . |
| 16 | The New York Herald dispatched the journalist Henry Morton Stanley to find him , which he did on the famous encounter of 10 November 1871 at Ujiji , near Lake Tanganyika . |
| 17 | Chapman said it would depend on how well he did on the Saturday . |
| 18 | Not necessarily for what he did on the pitch , although the trickery and goals certainly helped but more importantly the presence of the man , and excitement he inspired amongst his colleagues . |
| 19 | Yet , despite the apparent damage that Phil Barlow thought he might do to himself , he did on the day the appointments were made , challenge several aspects of the interviews . |
| 20 | Further , the appellant complains that by ruling in the way that he did on the main issue , the assistant recorder effectively left before the jury evidence prejudicial to the appellant which was relevant to counts 1 and 6 only : had he ruled in favour of the appellant on the motion to quash then he would have had to consider the matter and ( by inference ) would have exercised his discretion to discharge the jury and order a new trial on the remaining counts . |
| 21 | Which is just what he did on the actual day . |
| 22 | Well , ladies and gentlemen , I think you 'll agree that some of John Maynard-Smith 's early engineering training showed through , as it were , in reverse order , if that 's not too heretical a statement to make in this context , in the gentle good natured demolition job that he did on the main current critical attacks on Darwin 's mechanism , and particularly on the rhythms of change that Darwin adumbrated within his own time scale . |
| 23 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 24 | If he did n't like you , he 'd let you know it — just like he did with the drama teacher . |
| 25 | With England ‘ B ’ , his brief was to bring on young players and to keep fringe members of the England squad ticking over , rather than to aim to win every gage , and that 's what he did with the result that a whole crop of younger Englishmen — Back , Moon and Rodber , to name but three — are ready to make the transition to the full England team . |
| 26 | Yet the girl had said that what he did , he did with the king 's warrant , and the prince 's approval . |
| 27 | It drew to an end in April 1964 with Mr Mandela 's four-hour speech from the dock , in which he defended the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe and said he had done what he did for the ideal of a free and democratic society , ‘ an ideal for which I am prepared to die ’ . |
| 28 | And those who worked with him on ecumenical committees knew that this was nothing like so rigid an Anglo-Catholic as sometimes he was portrayed ; and remembered what he did for the Methodists and other non-Anglicans in Durham . |
| 29 | Among Fianna Fail members , Mr MacSharry is seen as the man with the courage and determination to revive the party 's flagging fortunes , just as he did for the Irish economy four years ago . |
| 30 | ‘ He 'll get a good reaction from our fans because the people appreciate everything he did for the club , ’ Rush said . |