Example sentences of "he did [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 2 | After a while , however , Pound 's constant and insistent proselytizing began to annoy him , and he reverts to his usual more careful and elaborate prose while explaining ( as so many of Pound 's correspondents did ) that he did not at all understand what Pound was talking about . |
| 3 | Having himself come from a close family he did not at first regard his wife 's involvement with Chloe as unusual . |
| 4 | Something struck his face , though he did not at first realise what it was . |
| 5 | The evidence is overwhelming that he did not at this stage contemplate a coalition government . |
| 6 | He did not at this stage bring the matter before the whole Cabinet , but confined himself to informing four or five senior ministers of what had occurred . |
| 7 | Wilfrid withdrew to Ripon and , although he acted on occasion as bishop for Wulfhere among the Mercians and even ordained priests and deacons in Kent , he did not at this time exercise episcopal functions north of the Humber ( HE III , 28 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 14 ) . |
| 8 | He did not after all suggest passing conduct of the investigation over to Duroc 's police , which suggested less confidence in them , or more in Thiercelin , than the latter had anticipated . |
| 9 | On the surface he was a very matter-of-fact man , and he did n't at all like rehearsing ; but he was a good musician . |
| 10 | ‘ I see , ’ he commented quietly , and , from what Leith could gather , he did n't at all like what he saw . |
| 11 | He did n't for one minute expect that sort of treatment in Gloucester , but that was how he would spend this afternoon . |
| 12 | He did n't when he was eighteen and he did n't in 1979 at Lytham . |
| 13 | Of course , the letters were to be polite , but he did away with all the pompous formalities reserved for potentates . |
| 14 | He was only allowed to work provided he did so during reasonable daylight hours . |
| 15 | He did so to such purpose that he subsequently wrote several widely acclaimed technical books on the processing of steel and in 1920 received the Bessemer gold medal of the Iron and Steel Institute . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , when staging epics such as Pizarro by R. B. Sheridan [ q.v. ] he did so with tremendous verve . |
| 17 | In Scotland , W. Manson was entrusted to carry it out and he did so with great efficiency until 1960 when he retired . |
| 18 | Richard Halton might have been felt to have the least enviable job in taking on Simon Keenlyside 's much praised Papageno , but he did so with great panache and comic flair , and sang soundly as well . |
| 19 | He did so on two grounds : first , that the document had not been duly executed in accordance with the requirements of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 , as substituted for the original section by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 ; and , secondly , that the deceased lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 20 | He did so in two ways . |
| 21 | He did so in this case ( deciding that it did amount to a material change of use ) . |