Example sentences of "he do [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided that the best thing for him to do was to leave as soon as possible , before other people arrived and the situation became very complicated . |
| 2 | So all that remained for him to do was to demonstrate that Lucy 's organ of Amativeness was extraordinarily well developed . |
| 3 | What did he do is Léonie really my sister what did he do ? |
| 4 | mega bucks and the company had gone escalated and then opportunity of this guy , you know , saying what a super guy he was , what an entrepreneur and what he done is , you know , I 've had something head , you know , I 'm in charge and he put his feet on the desk there and he had a hole in his shoe and s spread across all the papers the next day was this guy with a hole in his shoe and this was a multi million pound corporate er corporate body , he could n't afford to buy a decent pair of shoes |
| 5 | Well straight away the first thing he done was to put these new tables in , and that was his idea when he put these tables in to get more slate , and less wages . |
| 6 | What he did is morally wrong , but he has hurt no-one but himself . |
| 7 | Whether Ray Farningham meant to collect Ian Cameron 's low cross from the right as he did is equally puzzling , but he turned well and shot past Andy Rhodes . |
| 8 | No what he what he did is and he |
| 9 | All he did was remain at the point where they first met . |
| 10 | To involve related professions as closely as he did was an innovation at that time . |
| 11 | All he did was to say ‘ no ’ to tax increases and to abortions . |
| 12 | With unsympathetic editors on the magazines he usually worked for , half of what he did was found fault with or refused . |
| 13 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |
| 14 | What he did was to show that a belief which seems only common sense is in fact false . |
| 15 | What he did was send his drive over both familiar fairway bunkers 313 yards — all uphill . |
| 16 | Despite his fear he could n't help wanting to look over the edge of the basket but when he did was sure he saw , besides the surging of the sea , long black shadows just below the surface of the water . |
| 17 | All he did was ask Mr Fractor to explain things or tell him what he wanted to know . |
| 18 | Everything he did was enriched by a warm concern for other people that inspired affection from even slight acquaintances , and love from his closer colleagues . |
| 19 | But what he did was to go outside broadcasting for two out of his three senior editorial jobs , the first main appointments . |
| 20 | Prizes do not matter , but what he did was supremely important in calming the racial tensions of America in the ‘ sixties . |
| 21 | He remembered taking her to school , it was after their mother died , Georgia would 've been seven , she did n't want to go , there were girls who tied her to trees , it was her accent or her looks , he could n't remember now , but he had to take her because he 'd promised Dad , Dad who did n't know anything , the scratches on her legs were brambles , the bruises on her wrists were something else , he could n't remember now , how could they tell him the truth , how could they tell him anything when all he did was sit in dark rooms with his head in his hands , his head haunted by her ghost , and each dawn broke like the slow blow of a hammer . |
| 22 | What he did was relatively harmless , yet somewhere deep down it damaged me and gave me a streak of recklessness that is still having consequences even today . |
| 23 | What he did was relatively harmless , yet it damaged me and was the cause of reckless behaviour with consequences as far reaching as now . ’ |
| 24 | Rob Andrew had a quiet game , which is meant as a compliment because whatever he did was done efficiently and without fuss , whilst he always took the right option . |
| 25 | But Francis had no message of goodwill for Rideout , snapping : ‘ What he did was very silly indeed , especially right in front of the referee . ’ |
| 26 | All he did was yell at me to get out of his trailer . ’ |
| 27 | Another thing he did was picture himself and his wife in the drawing room receiving dinner guests . |
| 28 | But womanizing and drinking to the extent he did was not the behaviour of a mild-mannered man . |
| 29 | Next day Mr Vulcan arrived and the first thing he did was to call on everyone who owed money to his sister . |
| 30 | She imagined he was going to make a move towards her , but what he did was to hitch the child closer to him until his face was almost pressed against his own and then he smiled a smile that widened his full lips but , as she had seen before , did not separate his teeth . |