Sentence examples for do renovation work from inspiring English sources

"He's really a closet Italian hippie," said David Adjaye, a friend and London architect, whom Radice hired to do renovation work at Selfridges.

Huang Peixin, the owner of a company that was subcontracted to do renovation work on the 28-story high-rise, was also sentenced to 16 years in prison for accepting bribes and for his role in the fire.

The audit, by the accounting firm KPMG, also concluded that after the local spent $1.8 million to buy a Harlem building and do renovation work for a new headquarters in the mid-1990's, the site remains a dilapidated shell.

Mr. Pelosi, who often draws attention to his blue-collar background, was hired to do renovation work on the Ammons' town house on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Even if the U-Exchange post does not work out, Mr. Rowley said, he has arranged privately to do renovation work on a vacation home in Ocean Shores, west of Seattle, while he and his wife stay in another beach home.

"Why?" "There are 17 guys doing renovation work in the house, all the time.

Mr. Pelosi first met the Ammons in 2000, when he did renovation work on their Upper East Side town house.

Seven, who lives in a concrete-block house and has an estranged wife and two children, has done renovation work on Juan's house.

Sheri Whitley estimates that by doing renovation work now instead of a few years ago, she and her husband, Mark van Dok, are saving about $10,000.

If she wasn't busy making a local breadfruit dish for the men doing renovation work on the restaurant, she might be playing Scrabble with local schoolgirls.

Glenn, an interior designer whose firm is Glenn Gissler Design, decided what changes needed to be made, and his older brother, Gary, who does renovation work, handled the actual construction.