Example sentences of "[conj] do his " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Endill was n't building the catapult or doing his schoolwork , he explored further and further into the corridors . |
| 2 | Had he been a dunce at it or did his present situation , despite the opportunity it affords for the histrionics he so loves , make him feel like pawn ? |
| 3 | Or did his advice derive from the crooked workings of a twisted kind of covetousness — perhaps the kind prohibited by the Ninth Commandment , Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour 's wife , which had always seemed superfluous after the Sixth . |
| 4 | Yes , I mean I have a very helpful husband , but he 's helping , he sees him himself as helping me rather than doing his share of it without having to ask what help I need . |
| 5 | Nor do his choral forces always suggest that they are home in the idiom . |
| 6 | Nor did his size , for he was no bigger ( about 5lb ) than many of the other bream in the shoal . |
| 7 | Nor did his pervasive conservatism of mind repel radicals in any altogether reliable way . |
| 8 | Nor did his philosophy contribute significantly to the development of the scientific enterprise in succeeding generations . |
| 9 | Haig , it is only fair to say , was never informed of the ghastly horror at the front ; nor did his senior staff know , or choose to imagine , the true situation . |
| 10 | Nor did his brother Lord Camrose . |
| 11 | Instead , he resigned from Fine Arts committees , and antiquarian societies , and societies for reclaiming beggars and prostitutes ; nor did his interest in crop rotation appear to have survived the siege . |
| 12 | Nor did his ambition rest here . |
| 13 | Nor did his investment in the Virginia Company prevent him from advocating a total ban on tobacco imports . |
| 14 | Nor did his Lordship draw any demarcation between administrative institutions and inferior courts for the purposes of review . |
| 15 | Nor did his attempt to view their shared suffering as part of the Lord 's mysterious providence — a present ill from which a future good might spring — in any way ameliorate her condition . |
| 16 | If Reni remembered Huy from the past he made no reference to it , nor did his face betray the slightest sign of recognition . |
| 17 | Nor did his consideration for Stella escape Lucy 's ponderings — nor his thoughtfulness in allowing Bill to have time off , which enabled him to be near his wife during her period in hospital . |
| 18 | Indeed , nor did his predecessor represent a Scottish constituency . |
| 19 | Deng did not attend the congress , nor did his arch-conservative rival Chen Yun . |
| 20 | With a dexterity that did his age credit , the old man stopped the sweating horse and accosted John-Augustus , who was much relieved to discover that the stranger 's own preoccupation blocked out any interest in his own . |
| 21 | He has also convinced the Scots he cares far more about their future than did his predecessor , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 22 | But the relationships within which women laboured in the coal communities would have told him even more about class struggle than did his breathtaking chronicle of labour down there in the dark . |
| 23 | Nor does his love of Three Oranges Suite have the bite we have now come to expect — but the music offers delicacy , too , and Danon brings out brilliantly Prokofiev 's debt to Ravel in the third movement . |
| 24 | Nor does his work lead to the same fame as does great success at the Bar ; but some solicitors are as affluent as their opposite numbers at the bar , and they achieve their wealth in a more relaxed way . |
| 25 | The man has not been reported missing , his office does not seem to be particularly worried about him , nor does his daughter . " |
| 26 | Those around him anxious to please and do his bidding were in no doubt as to what he wanted and desperately sought a solution at any price that would satisfy their commander-in-chief . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , he 's trying to make himself look useful so the next time he wants his own name in the paper I 'll remember and do his bidding . |
| 28 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 29 | And he looked liked really just ready to get up and do his lovely fresh face you know . |
| 30 | He should have told Cottee to go and do his talking on the park and perhaps tried to change the team plan to assist his strike-force ( if that 's the right word ) . |