Example sentences of "he do [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no , she let him tell her what to do — him that was the cause of it all — and what does he do but fix up for her to go and see this Dr Graham ? |
| 2 | If his heart does n't give out , thought Frances , for Miss Greedy Eyes dropped her hands and boogied away and what could he do but follow , flinging his arms and legs up and down like a puppet . |
| 3 | What could he do but pray — to the utterly remote , barely imaginable Emperor ? |
| 4 | What can he do but fuss , |
| 5 | So what was he to do but bear with her ? |
| 6 | Actually , the Governor would have ample reason to feel paranoid if he did but know the gist of the message Jaq intended to send . |
| 7 | With eyes downcast , he did nor seem at all |
| 8 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ We were not condoning what he did or holding him up as someone who should be followed . |
| 9 | Whatever he did or did not do , Earl Siward was going to make trouble in Lothian . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't give a fuck if he did or did n't . |
| 11 | Whether he did or did not , he was back in very short order saying that the crew had decided to go back to their old squadron , and I cleared him to return to his squadron that same afternoon . |
| 12 | But whether he did or did not is not the point . |
| 13 | He was light for what he did and played in a place and at a time when very heavy tackling was the chief feature of the game . |
| 14 | I had always believed everything he did and said to be sincere and genuinely personal , but gradually small cracks began appearing in his carefully constructed persona and well-tended integrity . |
| 15 | He did and took the initiative in his firm but unassuming way . |
| 16 | He did and made par . |
| 17 | He did and made love to Rebecca . |
| 18 | At one level , June Braithwaite attacked Robert about the time he spent away from home and what he did and did not do for the children . |
| 19 | Andrew Ray told me : ‘ I often saw Kenneth and some of the things he did and thought to myself , ‘ What a waste ! ’ |
| 20 | Be prepared to tell the boat to windward that this is what you intend to do so that he does nor barge down onto you and force you further along the line . |
| 21 | In the next five years he thinks he does but does n't . |
| 22 | As regards contracts of employment , it is provided that he is to be liable on any contract of employment adopted by him but nothing he does or omits to do in the first 14 days of his appointment is to be taken as adoption of the contract . |
| 23 | I mean if anybody else just got up on the stage like he does and kicks his leg , kick like their leg like er like that they 'd boo him off ! |
| 24 | He then added : ‘ Although maybe now I 'll just do what he does and fight a bum a month instead of taking the hard fights . |
| 25 | I urge him to study the remarks of Professor Glennerster , who knows rather more about this matter than he does and has laid the two-tier rumours to rest once and for all . |
| 26 | The imagination must be fed ; we should not expect children to go on drawing from imagination or memory without directing his attention to the things he does and sees , and tries to imagine . |
| 27 | To get the activity in isolation you have to think of someone suddenly coming into existence with just enough of a world around him so that what he does and believes is just what the postman does and believes in the real world , but without any real environment . |