Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel remarked gloomily that he did n't suppose it would make the programmes any better , but in a way it did . |
| 2 | She noticed belligerently that he did add ginger ale to the brandy . |
| 3 | ‘ As it turned out , I knew the Bible better than he did . |
| 4 | In fact , Cool Ground worked with Romany King and Sirrah Jay , and they actually worked better than he did . |
| 5 | She had seen his point of view and expressed it even better than he did . |
| 6 | They would have understood his feelings , better than he did himself . |
| 7 | Besides , he reasoned , they all knew the way to the front door better than he did . |
| 8 | Yes , I mean I think erm some of us were a bit disappointed perhaps that he did n't erm find erm a woman to put into his cabinet . |
| 9 | His wife was lurking in the basement all the time Eleanor was there , so that he did not feel safe getting close . |
| 10 | Keith tried to snatch the pen away from her and she slapped his hand so that he did not jog her . |
| 11 | He tried to make his voice gentle so that he did n't antagonize her . |
| 12 | Simon had put Ben onto his lead so that he did n't run back down to the beach and cut himself on the rusty barbed wire . |
| 13 | He placed an old towel on the bathroom floor so that it would not get wet and he ensured that everything he needed was within reach so that he did not have to move from the spot and so drip water everywhere . |
| 14 | The other horses clonked and snorted softly in the darkness behind their partitions , so that he did not feel at all alone , but in a sort of family . |
| 15 | For many years he was a Methodist Local Preacher , and always walked to his appointments anywhere in the Circuit , so that he did not cause anyone else to work on a Sunday . |
| 16 | The long corridors of the Bastille were hardly convenient for Pavarotti , for whom a dressing-room was created nearer the stage , so that he did n't have to walk too far . |
| 17 | Having been involved in such proceedings since the Twenties he was now in fact finding them " a bit tedious " , and " Mr Eliot 's list " was invented for a section of the agenda so that he did not have to attend the entire meeting . |
| 18 | Still , he had been treated fairly in Ballyjamesduff , so that he did n't need to go seeking his next bite before breakfast . |
| 19 | His arms came around her and she pressed willingly into them , lifting her chin and stretching up on her toes so that he did not have to bend so far towards her . |
| 20 | He 'd lied about so much else , and it was quite clear now why he 'd wanted to know so much about Ryan , where he was , what he 'd done ; he 'd wanted to know how much or how little Ryan had told her so that he did n't make the same mistakes . |
| 21 | True , Lupus exhorted Charles " not to subject himself so much to the influence of one man so that he did everything according to that man 's will " . |
| 22 | Anything so that he did n't connect Lori with the jade . |
| 23 | And she used to tell me about her burying it with her father you see , the sacks of malt so that he did n't find it . |
| 24 | Yesterday evening we had a courtesy visit to our rooms from Comrade Wong , Vice-Chairman of the Institute 's Revolutionary Committee , Comrade Chang our cadre organizer , and the luckless Comrade Interpreter Wong , who spent the whole time interpreting , so that he did n't even have a chance to drink his tea or to eat a biscuit . |
| 25 | because erm , I know he had a lot , he 'd like try to buy everything in property so that he did n't actually have a lot of cash |
| 26 | I should wither up and die inside if he did . |
| 27 | And Daniel would n't go in cos he did n't |
| 28 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 29 | And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all . |
| 30 | It would be dangerous pinning Ebert down and he did n't want to put her at risk . |