Example sentences of "what he did [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he did decide , and June did not try to dissuade him , was that he would not go back to school . |
| 2 | She did n't even know what he did to earn so much money , anyhow ! |
| 3 | I do n't think he introduced any really new ideas , and what he did suggest has n't lasted , but still , in its way , it was effective . |
| 4 | This was where he came from — not in any self-pity — ( although there could have been an excuse for that , in the bitter harvest of the coalfields ) — nor with any attempt to show off ( although the battles he had fought and won to achieve what he did deserved a boast ) — those stories were told and retold to keep the faith . |
| 5 | Stansill was not one of the extroverts of the underground , but what he did bring was method , in an environment with hardly any , and a philosophical view about the alternative which the underground could offer . |
| 6 | He paused , seemingly at a loss to say what he did mean . |
| 7 | Not only , said Nicky , was this proof positive of the Englishness — indeed the Lancashireness — of Griffiths 's voice , but Griffiths had also said that if cornered in future he would shoot his way out rather than submit to arrest — exactly what he did do . |
| 8 | But what he did do was to embroider , I fantasise . |
| 9 | Part of me feels sorry for him , despite what he tried to do , what he did do . |
| 10 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 11 | What he did wish was to emasculate his opponents , and then to pretend they were coming together as equals . |
| 12 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 13 | But what he did come to recognise was the inadequacy of existing literature : ‘ I realised that the main writers on history and statistics at the time had done very little research and were relying on a few books . |
| 14 | What he did find , to his surprise , was that some of the doubles moved in a way which indicated that they were in orbit round the ‘ balancing point ’ or common centre of gravity of the system . |
| 15 | It was like a valedictory speech , possibly the last big statement he would utter as Leader of the Opposition , the opportunity to deliver a personal justification of what he did to try and ensure that Labour 's values joined together with the popular vote to save the party from the political wilderness . |
| 16 | What he did say was that Rabbit has no intention of setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries in any country , because of its commitment now to its previously neglected distribution partners . |
| 17 | Well what he did say was do n't you know do n't go over the top in criticizing that because |
| 18 | What he did say to the working class is this that the emancipation of working class must be the work of the working class itself . |
| 19 | Yeah but what he did take my Walkman for though ? |
| 20 | Though in some ways Colin was quite close to his drivers — closer to some than to others — he was , in financial matters , something of a cheese-parer and though his sponsors were generally reasonably generous , even at the height of Lotus 's reputation he neither enjoyed the kind of largesse available to some teams nor , with his many other commitments and his fairly flamboyant life style , could devote all of what he did receive to his team . |
| 21 | Not typing or anything — he said he did n't need a secretary ; what he did need , he said , was someone to keep his office nice . |
| 22 | What he did learn was the coffee machine . |
| 23 | The terrified young Frenchman tried to answer Sharpe 's questions , but either he knew very little or else he was cleverly hiding what he did know . |
| 24 | What he did know was that Joe liked to be surrounded by young men . |