Example sentences of "do he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 To get a closer look at what I was doing he jumped onto the table , knocking eight woodscrews onto the floor .
2 How much a year , to the nearest thousand , did he earn as Heritage Secretary ?
3 How much did he earn in the fourth week ?
4 Well then yo , you should have rung her up and said did he break in the caravan ?
5 And who did he marry like ?
6 ‘ What did he mean about the mill ? ’
7 What did he mean about Philip ?
8 Richard said , ‘ What did he mean about Adam being busy ? ’
9 ‘ But what I wanted to ask Denis was , what did he mean by saying we were n't children any more ? ’
10 ‘ What did he mean by ‘ ’ they' ’ ? '
11 However , questions about the meaning of sentences , such as ’ Who did he mean by the woman he saw last night ? ’ can usually only be answered with reference to facts about the world , i.e. , the specific denotation .
12 Ruth repeated the word : ‘ Retribution — what did he mean by it ? ’
13 And what did he mean by that last sentence ?
14 What exactly did he mean by that ?
15 What did he mean by that ?
16 Now what exactly did he mean by that remark ?
17 What did he mean by that sombre ‘ quite ’ ?
18 What on earth did he mean by that ?
19 Only in dealing with the events of 146 B.C. did he move towards the position of a cautious critic of Roman society and its methods of government .
20 To which island did he move on retirement ?
21 So did he move with it ?
22 Neither did he move from where he was standing , just inside the door , for almost a minute ; and when he did , he came quickly to the side of the table and stood within an arm 's length of her .
23 ‘ Why did he quarrel with his family ?
24 When he did he went into his house , opening his front door with his key .
25 Only in 1532 did he alight on the policy of the royal supremacy : the idea that the English monarchy had enjoyed an unlimited authority over the church within its realm for centuries and only now needed to start exercising this on a more regular basis .
26 In vain did he protest to the shopkeeper that it was all a joke .
27 This last point is certainly not irrelevant , since the commemorative scroll sent to me from the Palace names Leslie as of the Parachute Regiment ; and under this unit did he appear for the last time in the Army List .
28 Did he appear to be worried or apprehensive ?
29 Not until 1717 did he appear in print , with a grand jury charge denouncing Jacobites .
30 How much did he pay for his ?
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