Example sentences of "[that] he did [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sighvat 's poem is known to be incomplete , but surviving verses do not mention the battle , and Ottar the Black 's Knútsdrápa says that Cnut opposed or threw back ( hnekDir ) the Swedes there , and describes him as their withstander ( prengvir ) , neither of which is resonant of overwhelming victory , Indeed , if Holy River was known only from the Chronicle entry one would think it a defeat , but Ottar is unlikely to have included a famous reverse in a list of Cnut 's achievements , and the royal title used in the 1027 Letter ( see below ) suggests that he did eventually claim suzerainty over some Swedes . |
| 2 | He appeared in court to hear the charge read out to him , that he did unlawfully kill Joanna Hughes in August last year . |
| 3 | The transcript departed from aspects of the evidence which Reagan had given to the Tower Commission in 1987 , and suggested that he had returned to his earliest explanations of the Iran-contra affair , insisting that he did not trade arms for hostages and had seen not " one iota " of evidence that profits from the operation had been diverted to the contras . |
| 4 | Bevin told the British House of Commons in February 1946 that he did not want Turkey to become " a satellite state " of the USSR . |
| 5 | The accused 's words showed that he did not intend violence and the victim did not apprehend immediate personal violence . |
| 6 | First , where he knowingly assists in a dishonest and fraudulent design or breach of trust undertaken by the insider , notwithstanding the fact that he did not acquire possession of the trust property ( ’ knowing assistance ’ ) . |
| 7 | Nothing is known of his education except that he did not lay claim to any degree . |
| 8 | Father D'Arcy said that he did not think Distributism was the happiest of terms for a politico-economic movement ; but he vouched for Chesterton 's total sincerity in propounding it , and he hinted that the review was a regular drain on his pocket . |
| 9 | This meant some easing of the burden , which he liked , but it also meant that he was not Prime Minister , which he also liked being , that he did not have Chequers , for which his affection was second only to that of MacDonald , and that his salary as Lord President was £2000 instead of the £5000 which Secretaries of State as well as the Prime Minister were paid . |
| 10 | But rather that in the incarnation God in Christ took on humanity ( the universal ) ; which is not to imply that he did not have particularities , which indeed one has to have to be human . |
| 11 | The runner , who has always protested that he is innocent , insists that the only reason he did not provide a sample at the 1991 GRE Cup meeting was that he did not have time before he had to go to work . |
| 12 | DAVID Mellor was heading for the political scrapheap last night after Downing Street revealed that he did NOT seek permission for his ‘ freebie ’ holiday with Mona Bauwens . |
| 13 | He was both angered and grieved that he did not know Liza 's whereabouts , nor the sex of her offspring . |
| 14 | A further witness named F as the attacker but likewise said that he did not know F , though he had seen him . |
| 15 | The doctors diagnosed that he had probably had a left-sided embolic stroke , and decided that he did not need surgery , so he was treated on the medical ward , where he remained for about seven months . |
| 16 | Behind Boswell 's published account of his fidgety stay at the Mackinnons ' — he felt so lethargic that he did not encourage Johnson to talk so that he would not have to write it down — lies some oddity . |
| 17 | When Rance gave an interview to U Saw , the former premier , on 12 September he told the Governor that he did not consider Aung San ‘ a strong character , as initially he was controlled by Than Tun and now he was in the pocket of U Ba Pe ’ . |
| 18 | His tone conveyed that he did not consider Theodora had much option but to accept . |
| 19 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 20 | Mr Aldrich himself claims , and I am fully prepared to believe him , that he did not see Mr Stratton on the train . |
| 21 | He slept so deeply that he did not hear Mrs Dempster come in . |
| 22 | James was so intent that he did not hear Sara enter the room . |
| 23 | Secondly , President Truman had ruled , with his eye on the continuing war in the Far East , that he did not wish US troops to get involved in a war in the Balkans ( this point was underlined to the conference by the senior American military representative , Gen McNarney ) . |
| 24 | He shows clearly that he did not find evidence of the so-called two-tier phenomenon to which the hon. Lady refers , but that the total of care provided was increased . |
| 25 | Sir Wilfrid was more polite , but it was clear that he did not believe Mr Appin 's story . |
| 26 | If he finds it amusing that he did not unfreeze acquisition grants even in the years when he had the money to do so , he is in a bad way . |
| 27 | My dad always used to say that he did n't pay teachers to make personal remarks . |
| 28 | I know he was a ratepayer because he repeated this fact in the subsequent inquiry , a dozen or so times , adding that he did n't pay rates to have his hat ruined , a view I could understand . |
| 29 | Silas had made it plain that he did n't want women in his life , but she refused to accept that fact . |
| 30 | She went down the stairs with him feeling saddened that , with his parents out , he was so anxious to keep his love for Rosemary a secret that he did n't want Naylor to overhear his telephone conversation . |