Example sentences of "do [adv] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing so he voiced the main concern of all the watchful parties : the risk that control through physical restraint may emerge as common practice over the use of counselling . |
| 2 | Law was bound to give way but in doing so he sacrificed the only positive policy he had . |
| 3 | I later recorded he invariably used the idea of an ‘ escape from real work ’ to describe any research secondment ; in doing so he embodied the common institutional fear of uncontrolled social movement across a divide or boundary into another society such as academia . |
| 4 | In doing so he lost the only friends he had here in Paris , such as they were . |
| 5 | Edward , leaden with gloom , waited for the kettle to boil ; as he did so he watched the steady progress of a wood-louse across the wall behind the sink . |
| 6 | Maybe Nevil lived here , but if he did , why did n't he used the front door ? |