Example sentences of "he often did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the list of play-off records he set — .650 batting average , 13 hits , 24 total bases — fails to convey the full magnitude of his achievement , coming in as he often did at moments of unbelievable pressure , and usually delivering the vital hit . |
| 2 | McLeish thanked him gravely , feeling , as he often did with the Wilsons , that he was being enveloped in a large feather eiderdown , and , made restless by the call , went down the corridor to where he knew Catherine Crane was also in , getting her office in order . |
| 3 | He was just back from giving the Second Channel a tour of the White House at night , something he often did , and with a proper historical reverence . |
| 4 | This was true even of the private apartments of the Imperial family , to such an extent that if the Emperor , while working late at night as he often did , wanted a book from his library , he had to take a lighted candle with him . |
| 5 | Soon , thought Henry , feeling , as he often did , a sense of solidarity with chickens , they would label one with THIS FOWL HAS BEEN HAND-REARED AND TALKED TO NICELY . |
| 6 | His reply was that he often did but not usually soon enough . ) |
| 7 | As he often did , Mr Wolski headed for the staff exit the long way round , by way of the Cages . |
| 8 | His hands covered his face until he brought them into fists in front of him , in the way he often did , then he opened his arms along the length of me ; his palms warm , close , without touching , cruised first my shoulder , then the weight of my breast under my hair , my hip , my stomach . |
| 9 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 10 | He often did this when in contemplative mood and it never failed to unnerve me . |
| 11 | Mr McWhirter had summoned a taxi to take him home , as he often did when afflicted with the snap and bite of chilblain pains . |
| 12 | He often did at times of emotional crisis . |
| 13 | Orrin Tunstall reverted to being a Westerner , as he often did in moments of crisis . |
| 14 | He stopped in mid sentence , as he often did . |
| 15 | He was crying with delight , as he often did in anticipation , when his engine started to cough , and he sailed slap into a rocky cascade . |
| 16 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |
| 17 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |