Example sentences of "did so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever was on duty would move gently any part of the affected limb , trying as they did so to persuade Jimbo that now the pain was gone he might — I did not dare to say ‘ would ’ — be free soon to walk normally . |
| 2 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 3 | And if that is so , then I revert to the considerations already stated which as a matter of construction make me think that it did so legislate . |
| 4 | When asked to find similar patterns for other numbers , only seven per cent of boys did so compared with 28 per cent of the girls . |
| 5 | It does not lay an adequate foundation for a claim that , even if the solicitors did so advise , that was not advice which a competent solicitor could reasonably have given . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh dear , ’ Louise said , unhappily , ‘ I did so hope that you two would make a go of it , but with all the rows I do n't really know , I 'm sure … ’ |
| 7 | Oh , she did so hope that Jasper would not be late , would not be tired , would want to go out . |
| 8 | He did so hope I was enjoying myself . |
| 9 | He did so hope I was not bored with country life . |
| 10 | we did so hope that we 'd both pass , you see , because , you know , been terrible |
| 11 | She did so hope that he was n't going to invite her out , and was trying to think up some good off-putting excuse when , ‘ Your car has been delivered here , to Mr Gajdusek 's home . |
| 12 | When Alan Cairns and other leading ministers opposed the candidacy of William McCrea and James McClelland they did so to preserve the interests of the Free Church and not to aid the DUP by reducing the public presence of Free Presbyterianism in the lists of candidates . |
| 13 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 14 | And the first man who pursued me did so to gouge a small fortune out of my father , to marry his true sweetheart and set himself up in business . |
| 15 | Katherine walked in and as she did so heard the smooth engine of the Rolls pulling away . |
| 16 | If he did so intend then , in the case of a child over the age of 16 , his interpretation of the law was inconsistent with the express words of section 8(3) of the Act of 1969 . |
| 17 | It is then for the prosecutor to prove that the defendant did so intend or was aware . |
| 18 | The circumstances under which they did so do not appear from the report of the case . |
| 19 | He did so wearing his coral regalia . |
| 20 | When early Christians adopted the pagan altar they did so to represent the table of the Last Supper and placed upon it a white cloth symbolic of the Shroud . |
| 21 | The shape of his spine seemed to ask to be stroked , and his sharp intake of breath when she did so made her more aware suddenly of her own power to affect him . |
| 22 | Thomson invites Ormanroyd to move forward and he drives it on and as he did so presume the referee has whistled for a free kick for the challenge by Gemmell , yes he has . |
| 23 | She did so love a feast . |
| 24 | She did so love these afternoons with Miss Honey . |
| 25 | He claimed he only did so to seal the sale of a barbecue which was damaged . |
| 26 | All that mattered to these people was to kill ; how they did so had little significance . |
| 27 | Those that did so recovered their costs within six months . |
| 28 | Many did so think , and fear ; and saw nothing in the religious experience — or that to which it pointed — of the last decade and a half to cause them to think otherwise . |
| 29 | And I did so want to dig up a few artichokes this evening . |
| 30 | ‘ I did so want Isabel to come , too . |