Example sentences of "[prep] do [adv] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing so he had to rely on the police for manpower . |
| 2 | But then again , Pontius Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus and thought that in doing so he had got rid of him . |
| 3 | Law was bound to give way but in doing so he sacrificed the only positive policy he had . |
| 4 | Marx tries to get away from the idea of private property when discussing pre-capitalist social systems by using the phrase ‘ appropriation of nature ’ but in doing so he uses a word with the same root as ‘ property ’ . |
| 5 | Bakewell bred not only for meat but for as much tallow as possible and in doing so he improved the Longhorn but at the same time destroyed its future prospects . |
| 6 | The writer writes out of his own wounds and in doing so he enables his reader to experience emotional change , emotional growth , healing without having to suffer the same fate as his character . |
| 7 | He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy . |
| 8 | So he swallowed her small cries , but in the end it was not the safeguard she had sought , because in doing so he fed her the taste of himself once more and left a hunger in her which she sensed would last a long , long time , if not an eternity . |
| 9 | We might say that Wordsworth has slanted his autobiography to fit a theory ; in doing so he denied his own high academic attainment . |
| 10 | In doing so he expressed thanks also to CSD staff and pointed to the construction work currently under way on the new European Technology Centre at Royston as a demonstration of our showing confidence in the future and JM 's determined intention to maintain leadership . |
| 11 | In doing so he avoided confrontation : the State continued to be guided by a primary concern for the interests of the landed nobility . |
| 12 | But in emphasising the role of the norm he is quite consciously diminishing the role of the state — at least as expressed in its legal apparatus — and in doing so he underplays its role in constructing attitudes to sexuality , through marriage laws , the regulation of deviance , the judiciary , the police , as well as , more generally , the education system , the welfare system , and so on . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In doing so he reduced the influence of the Takeshita faction , hitherto the largest internal faction within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) . |
| 15 | In doing so he recovered from three consecutive defeats at the hands of outsider Jerry Brown , the most recent of which had been in the Alaska caucus on April 2 , where Brown had won 33 per cent of the vote compared with Clinton 's 30 per cent . |
| 16 | In doing so he discovered that there were spontaneously generated potentials ( the EEG ) as well as showing that it was indeed possible to detect electrical brain responses to stimuli . |
| 17 | In doing so he has to maximise the output from his land as he is subject not only to man-made economic vagaries but also to climatic variations beyond his control . |
| 18 | But in doing so he has conceived many a dangerous folly . |
| 19 | In doing so he conceded to a key opposition demand and thereby appeared to have ended an opposition boycott of the legislature which had been called to protest against the government 's decision in early 1992 to postpone local elections . |
| 20 | In doing so he exposes the pre-acquisition write-down , the timing of recognition of deferred consideration and the impact of disposals . |
| 21 | Pontius Pilate , also he rejects the Lord Jesus and in doing so he hated himself for it . |
| 22 | Like both the Aristotelians and Gassendi , Locke talks of their ‘ natures ’ or ‘ essences ’ , but in doing so he makes a sharp distinction between ‘ real ’ and ‘ nominal ’ essence . |
| 23 | In doing so he lost the only friends he had here in Paris , such as they were . |
| 24 | What really matters is not how the horse won , but that he did win , and that in doing so he ended his racecourse career displaying that sparkling but short-lived turn of foot for which he will long be remembered . |
| 25 | In doing so he diverges from common sense . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In doing so he emphasized that if leaders of society were to maintain the allegiance of the masses they must demonstrate their responsibility for them , sustaining the aristocratic tradition of obligation towards the poor . |
| 28 | In doing so he departed from the precedent set by many of the best known formula constructors , including Flesch and Dale . |
| 29 | In doing so he reveals the most frequently denied value of humour a defence against the world 's cruel pressures . |
| 30 | The accused agrees to transfer shares to the victim but before doing so he transfers them to a third party . |