Example sentences of "did what [pers pn] [verb] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all did what they had to do — a trip to Honduras again , via Madeira — and were safely back home on 11 June 1838 . |
| 2 | The premier league side did what they had to do … |
| 3 | She did what she chose to do , and was as for the time being she chose to be . |
| 4 | No , no , no that was , I mean Kay did what she had to do and sort of got the person |
| 5 | She was a law unto herself and did what she wanted to do . |
| 6 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 7 | I put up with all their talk , and I did what I had to do according to the state in which the Lord had placed me . |
| 8 | In the end I simply did what I had done in writing at full length but I compressed the whole into the 5000-word stipulated maximum length . |
| 9 | So , I did what I learnt to do as a working-class woman , which was to justify why I did my work by saying , well of course it is a metaphor for all kinds of struggle , and of course it is , but actually the original reason was n't that at all . |
| 10 | Over the years since that occasion I have often wondered why I did what I decided to do . |
| 11 | Did what you had to do eh ? |
| 12 | ‘ You simply did what you wanted to do with no thought or care as to how I should feel . ’ |
| 13 | The tragedies of miscegenation have never been simple — ever since Othello did what he had to do to Desdemona . |
| 14 | Ernest Jarvis did what he had to do elaborately , and it must have taken him a long time . |
| 15 | Like a baby , he did what he wanted to do . ’ |
| 16 | He admired her enormously and she did what he wanted to do — went into the really serious theatre while he stayed the same . ’ |