Example sentences of "he do [adv] " in BNC.

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31 Such poems ‘ need not be stimulated by real-life events ’ such as the plight of the Marseilles dock-workers , which has effaced the sight — darkly limned in Jaromil 's juvenilia — of Magda in her bath ; and if the poet who displays his ignorant , indifferent self-portrait is hoping for applause , there is a chance for him to do well in the new world of revolution , which rings with applause , and with blame .
32 She also gets him to do up her buttons on her dress .
33 I thought it would be interesting to ask him to do just that and hereby present …
34 In which case , someone had sent him to do just that .
35 I knew he wanted to get out , but your father always managed to persuade him to do just one more race .
36 He paused , and said , ‘ You wo n't persuade him to do otherwise , Messer Niccolò .
37 There was nothing for him to do now until Kynaston had finished .
38 Checking his temper , Rennie coldly advised him to do better .
39 Bill Clinton lamented that , in his first 100 days , people had expected him to do too much too soon .
40 And there was much encouragement around him to do so .
41 It will not be easy for him to do so .
42 He is given an opportunity to do so , and if he does not , he is subject to sanctions by the court to compel him to do so .
43 Common Law could not prevent the trustee employing it for the wife 's benefit , and Equity would compel him to do so .
44 He must not look at her until she told him to do so .
45 Having won already this season on the main tour ( as well as a senior event in Japan ) , he believes he has it in him to do so again , though not to wipe the slate clean after his defeat in a play-off against Nick Faldo in 1990 .
46 The deputies ordered him to do so by July .
47 ( 29–30 September 1777 ) Having decided that he would like to remain in Munich Mozart reported a plan to Leopold which he thought might enable him to do so .
48 The carer has to be involved in this process , so that every time the patient washes his face , hands or body , you help and remind him to do so correctly , without increasing his spasticity or putting himself into danger through careless movements .
49 The Court of Appeal made it clear that the Chief Constable had authority to intervene , but it declined to compel him to do so .
50 Tribunals accept that an employee can sometimes be fairly dismissed for declining to do something which falls outside the scope of his existing contract , for example if , without good cause , he refuses during a business emergency to help out when it was realistic to ask him to do so .
51 It was against the law for him to do so and for the store to serve him .
52 Terry was a great club man — he simply had no desires to play for anyone else — and no-one at Selhurst Park wanted him to do so .
53 William Marshall Craig , a miniaturist of Manchester , may also have influenced him to do so , as he was a close friend .
54 Abraham 's faith went far beyond the reach of understanding , but it is a travesty of the facts to ignore the elements of understanding which enabled him to do so .
55 On the day after President Shagari 's arrival in Britain , one UpN state newspaper reported nothing of the visit , commenting instead in an editorial that he should not have left the country at a time when the doctors were on strike : it had been ‘ unpatriotic ’ for him to do so .
56 Recently he had begun to suspect they would like him to leave and , if they could have been sure of finding a substitute fourth , would have asked him to do so .
57 He did not want to take life seriously , and he felt his relationship with Constance — and her independence — were forcing him to do so .
58 We travelled the length and breadth of the island , stopping to paint as often as we could persuade him to do so … which was n't always easy , as he was so keen that we should see everything .
59 I should say from what I can sense of MacArthur 's feelings that he would continue to fill his role here as long as his health permitted him to do so .
60 Law supported the offer to Asquith , and it was logical for him to do so ; a government bent on post-war reconstruct on and resistance to Labour would be strengthened by Asquith 's presence .
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