Example sentences of "[adj] he did " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he did with difficulty , partly on account of his bad eyesight , partly because of what in later years would come to be referred to as ‘ a learning disability ’ or ‘ mild dyslexia ’ ; and partly because he simply was n't much of a reader . |
| 2 | THE SOPHISTICATED Miss Gertrude Jekyll , gardening heroine of the Edwardians , commissioned Edwin Lutyens to design her Surrey homestead , and this he did so beautifully that their relationship was cemented and many future joint commissions ensued . |
| 3 | This he did not do . |
| 4 | But about this he did not care . |
| 5 | This he did with such success that within the next few years his name became a byword throughout Spain . |
| 6 | This he did and later in the evening he said that I could keep them . |
| 7 | I had no idea that Dad could drive a horse , but this he did in great style for of course he had spent his boyhood on various farms . |
| 8 | Shaw produced images described as a woman 's navel , a breast , a thigh , and Jesus , on an 8 mm movie film , This he did by spitting on the lens . |
| 9 | This he did by hard work , love for cricket and an exceptional organizing ability , which in 1953 resulted in the founding of the Danish Cricket Association of which he was chairman for 18 years . |
| 10 | This he did as a public duty until the early nineteenth century , despite the problems of growing age ; his subordinates included the zealous Lord Pelham , later Home Secretary . |
| 11 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 12 | All this he did before he even knew what had happened . |
| 13 | All this he did to boys without any compulsion or correction ; nay I never heard him utter so much as a word of austerity among us . ’ |
| 14 | The Government asked one of its ablest servants , John Milton , to reply ; this he did in his book Eikonoklastes [ ‘ The Image-Breaker' ] , which spiritedly commenced with the Biblical quotation , ‘ As a roaring lion and a raging bear , so is a wicked ruler over a poor people . ’ |
| 15 | Whether Mick would have proposed this he did not know ; he only knew that the desire had been there ; but it seemed to be the pattern that she and her uncle left together at dinnertime . |
| 16 | This he did , with successful air tests conducted at Hanworth ( London Air Park ) , near what is now Heathrow Airport . |
| 17 | This he did . |
| 18 | To do this he did not need to make any apparently arbitrary appeal to particular revelation or received authority . |
| 19 | By this he did not mean the philosophical proofs of God 's existence or the natural religion which had been the focus of so much discussion in the eighteenth century , and which he and Barth , like Schleiermacher and Ritschl before them , had rejected . |
| 20 | This he did by using the concept of ‘ social integration ’ . |
| 21 | This he did behind a barn , using an axe ; but found only plates and dishes in the case . |
| 22 | He still had to distinguish the miracles of Christ from the effects of magic , but this he did by stressing that the former were beneficial whereas the latter , especially in the case of witchcraft , could be detrimental . |
| 23 | This he did , entertaining the child wonderfully and asking her how old she was . |
| 24 | When the Cortes returned to liberated Madrid ( 5 January 1814 ) and the Desired One to Spain , the Persians , a group of conservative deputies , petitioned the king to denounce the constitution of 1812 ; this he did in the Manifesto of 4 May 1814 . |
| 25 | This he did , and so the case came before the Court of Exchequer which , by a majority , decided in favour of the defendant . |
| 26 | This he did successfully , first moving its works from Gray 's Inn Road , London , to Glasgow . |
| 27 | This he did , and when he had learned to ride it he realized what a radical improvement it would be if he could propel it without putting his feet on the ground . |
| 28 | A gentleman of the faculty in the neighbourhood , hearing of the circumstance , and finding it so well authenticated , immediately made him an offer of ten guineas for the dog , which the grateful farmer refused , exultingly adding that so long as he had a bone in his meat , or a crust to his bread , he would divide it with the faithful friend who had preserved his life : arid this he did in a perfect conviction that the warmth of the dog , in covering the most vital part , had continued the circulation arid prevented a total stagnation of the blood by the frigidity of the elements . " |
| 29 | This he did . |
| 30 | This he did fairly regularly . |