Example sentences of "he did [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she thought about the things he did they became even sharper , so that it felt as if an electric shock was passing right through the centre of her body . |
| 2 | When he did they saw the dead animal and , in fury at being deprived of their sport , they ran the hermit through with their boar staves . |
| 3 | But when he did they showed no interest at all , they just said the officer concerned was not there . |
| 4 | But as he did he saw two hooded crows scutter along the cliff face and sneak down upon her , calling threateningly , and as she turned to them he was astonished to see that she moved clumsily , uncertainly , not as an adult eagle should . |
| 5 | What he did he saw he saw the method and saw well this is quite neat . |
| 6 | cos I mean they do n't usually do they , but he did he came up there to see me |
| 7 | A and B. Erm there was no dis disrespect but A and B and er he 'd erm he devised a method he what he did he rifled the inside of the the piston . |
| 8 | Fred did n't appear to hear the horror in her voice , or if he did he managed to ignore it . |
| 9 | In whatever he did he displayed a strong didactic tendency and was always guided by his self-proclaimed precept that every ‘ social organism must possess a definite physical structure ’ . |
| 10 | he did he got ! |
| 11 | He did he said while I were there . |
| 12 | He did he said that which he should n't have done . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When he did he went into his house , opening his front door with his key . |
| 15 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 16 | The first thing he did he made friends amongst the young men in the college . |
| 17 | As he did he drove a fist hard into Connelly 's face , the impact propelling him across the kitchen . |
| 18 | He says I 'll er do it up I think an , what he did he painted it you see . |
| 19 | It took Martin a long time to get to sleep and even when he did he turned and twisted in feverish attempts to escape the nightmarish pursuit of red , glaring eyes and enormous yellow teeth . |
| 20 | But if he did he gave no sign . |
| 21 | ‘ If he did he did n't tell me about them . ’ |
| 22 | But it 's , i I saw him down at , what he did he moved the bottom which |
| 23 | All the time he slept she lay there longing acutely for him to go , and when he did she felt the most immense relief and vowed that now she had escaped his presence she would never never put herself in that position again . |
| 24 | There was just a tiny blot on her happiness , and that was the knowledge that one day this man would want to settle down , and when he did she felt sure he would choose the companion of his last four years , the pretty Victoria . |
| 25 | I nodded , cautious , not concerned with understanding ; because underlying everything he did I had come to detect an air of stage-management , of the planned and rehearsed . |
| 26 | if he did I had to write to out for him . |
| 27 | He did n't say much , but when he did it knocked you off your feet . |
| 28 | As the years went by , Dexter saw the look less frequently but when he did it irked him as much as ever . |
| 29 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |