Example sentences of "he did [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did throw out a hint- ’ I stopped . |
| 2 | Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside . |
| 3 | Woolton was an exponent of laisser faire , Leathers a rather unsuccessful interventionist , Alexander ineffectual all round , and Cherwell what he had always been , a highly intelligent courtier to his chief , though he did succeed in driving through his pet project of hiving off atomic energy from the Ministry of Supply into what became the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 4 | By contrast , while de Gaulle failed to bring the other five completely to heel , he did succeed in achieving some of his objectives : the supranational element within the Community was reduced , and a more widespread use of majority voting was prevented . |
| 5 | Although he failed in his main aim of forcing the Count of Toulouse to submit he did succeed in capturing Cahors and the Quercy . |
| 6 | None the less , he did succeed in maintaining the rights of the convent and on his death in 1331 he left the priory a considerable estate of books , vestments , plate , and horses . |
| 7 | For his contempt in abetting such an action his temporalities were distrained until he did prefer the royal clerk — such a humiliation that it was said to have occasioned his death . |
| 8 | I mean out of the three that he saw and prefer , I must admit he did prefer forty four . |
| 9 | Guy Gregory put over a total of 18 points , including the first dropped goals of the season for Nottingham , though he did miss four other chances . |
| 10 | But he did miss it ; he thought he had been born homesick ; he certainly thought he had spent most of his life waiting and longing and aching for the Bright Palace where his mother 's people had quarrelled and laughed and made love and war , and where the charming ruthless Wolfkings had woven Ireland 's history . |
| 11 | ‘ He did miss it ; it 's a pity you did n't hear me asking Dana 's flatmate for her — you 'd have had to believe me then . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Although , when I was going he did give me a sort of squeeze and said I 'd got the loveliest mouth he 'd ever seen . ’ |
| 13 | He did give everybody the run-around , but was wonderfully attractive and , indeed , still is . |
| 14 | Nutty had once accused him of giving his mare extra feed at night because she was fatter than all the others , but it was true : he did give her extra . |
| 15 | ‘ The referee could have given us two penalties in the first half but the one he did give did n't look much from where I was in the dug-out . |
| 16 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 17 | He did give a little shove to a defender who was shielding Wallace from the ball as it was running thru to Coton , but Coton could nt hold it anyway so IMO it did nt affect the ‘ goal ’ . |
| 18 | Very quickly erm er the Mrs said that er yes I do have a direct er line to God and one of the messages he did give me was that I should start to write Focus . |
| 19 | He did give power to schools and parents , but that made him enemies . |
| 20 | But Rochester did er did er , when he was trying to rebuke himself for committing what was bigamy , and the works , he said , when he compared his own wife , who was really a mental animal because she very bestial the way she bit people , and then , he compared her with this sweet , dewy-eyed Jane , he did give a reason did n't he ? |
| 21 | But he did give me somebody to ring about caravans |
| 22 | Everything he did seemed like a statement of his authority . |
| 23 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 24 | But he did confess to one problem — when the washing goes out , the sundial has to be moved . |
| 25 | And , if it was stolen , why should Paul Gray connive , if he did connive , by using it in his church ? ’ |
| 26 | He was a good person to be with , even if he did laugh at her . |
| 27 | Carrie said , and he did laugh at her then . |
| 28 | oh he did laugh , he said you 'll never live that down |
| 29 | He did travel some good roads . |
| 30 | Ferrari aside , he did love European sports cars . |