Example sentences of "do [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully , she waited for him to return to her side , but when he failed to do so she realised that whatever he had been about to say would be left unsaid . |
| 2 | Also Leslie Silver said in the paper that although he wanted the national team to do well he thought that Leeds winning the title was far more important and that he would fight ‘ tooth and nail to keep Howard Wilkinson at Leeds ’ |
| 3 | In doing so we felt that casual passers-by , looking in the window at the menu , would be more likely to come in knowing what price they would have to pay . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He flicked back the cuff of his jacket to glance at his watch and as he did so he saw that he was still carrying Maidstone 's hat . |
| 7 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |