Example sentences of "that he [verb] do [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dolly said one had got in , that he threatened to do her in if she did n't tell him where all the valuables were . |
| 2 | suddenly it all ended when a SAC , who was n't even a suspect , admitted that he 'd done it during a fit of depression ; with a pair of pliers , not a knife ! |
| 3 | Too many people twigged — or at least thought they did — that he had done it only to open the door of Number 10 . |
| 4 | And they would never , never find out that he had done it . |
| 5 | In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her . |
| 6 | He could hardly believe that he had done it . |
| 7 | When the Central Authority carpeted him for this , he stated that he had done it both to meet statutory obligations and to make faster progress on rural electrification than agreed . |
| 8 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 9 | In fact he had worried about it so much that he felt now that he had done it all . |
| 10 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 11 | It never occurred to him that the story was questionable , that Wainfleet had deliberately published something he did not totally believe and that he had done it in retaliation for being humiliated . |
| 12 | It was unbelievable — not only that he had done it but that she had stood there and let him . |
| 13 | It was something he had been wanting to do for over ten years , but , now that he had done it , he had destroy something that had been between them — a mysterious , almost exquisite , promise of delight . |
| 14 | There is actual evidence that he did do it in his childhood , and th so they 're not erm , they 're kind of building everything on a single sentence like Leo does , you know , amazingly enough , Leo 's book starts with entry of Who 's Who in a single phrase , where she calls herself daughter of , her father . |
| 15 | ‘ There are a lot of things that make Milton so good , but the most important is that he wants to do it , ’ says John . |
| 16 | If a member of a committee receives a letter asking him to carry out some job for the committee between meetings , he must feed back the information that he will do this and , when he has done it , the information that he has done it . |