Example sentences of "do [vb infin] that he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know anything about Mr Rochester 's character , but I do know that he offered to marry this young girl , who only discovered during the wedding ceremony that he was in fact already married , to a mad woman . |
| 2 | I do know that he became very depressed when the times were bad and he had the mortgage payments to meet . |
| 3 | We did n't go to the funeral , but me cousin Dora who was Aunt Lucy 's daughter , she got there was er Walter , , Walter and Leonard were in a pram and me cousin Dora went down Lane and wh to the corner of Street and watched the funeral go past up to I 've got vague memories of that they 're not clear but I do know that he took us to watch me dad 's funeral past the corner of Street and I presume that now that it must have gone up Street up to Street street , cos he 's buried at Ryecroft . |
| 4 | I do know that he outlived Great-Aunt Jane and he made a lot of trouble by claiming items of property to which he had no right . |
| 5 | No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search . |
| 6 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 7 | While he may not have said in so any words that these encounters with the press had been an " eye-opener , he did remember that he had been sincerely treated by the Journalists courtesy and by the beneficent power of journalism in the modern world . " |
| 8 | He did acknowledge that he had won an award for his rugby since the incident in September , 1991 . |
| 9 | Prone to guilt , however , he did wish that he had managed to see Gildas . |
| 10 | Because that , he did mention that he says so the next thing is the home 'll have to go . |
| 11 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 12 | He did say that he 'd tried to ring before I got back from lunch but I 'm not one hundred percent certain . |
| 13 | He did say that he thought the future might be difficult for us . |
| 14 | He did say that he disagreed with the choice of John Hill 's ‘ Karen ’ for first prize in the PORTRAIT section , he reckoned that it was quite ordinary and not up to John Hill 's normally high standard , although he said that John Hill 's first and second prizes in the ARCHITECTURAL/BUILDINGS/RECORD were very well deserved and entirely right . |
| 15 | While he could provide no time scale for this , he did say that he expects the business to grow at 20% per annum . |
| 16 | But this does mean that he thought that the law of value was the regulator of the Soviet economy . |
| 17 | But it does seem that he had some hint of the future : not only does his idea of the arena in which Pandemonium ( 1831 ) took place look like Wembley Stadium but his high-rise Tower of Babel in Belshazzar 's Feast might almost have been modelled on the General Accident Life building now going up at the side of Lendal Bridge on the way to York 's Railway Station . |
| 18 | ‘ I make no comment on the account of her son , but it does seem that he concealed the fact that his mother was laying for days but it does not affect the cause of death . |