Example sentences of "he did [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as he went he did great good , and gave alms , feeding the poor and needy . |
| 2 | I agreed and I put him under training for Mosquito , and to the best of my knowledge ( and this is only a guess ) he did over 70 sorties , got himself at least one DFC , if not two , and became a very worthwhile member of the Pathfinder Force . |
| 3 | A very famous Yoga teacher from India came to England and , after observing many Yoga classes , asked the instructor why it was that he did not first teach his students to sit , stand and walk with balance and coordination before teaching them the more complicated postures . |
| 4 | He did exactly that , little knowing that he was about to stumble upon one of the greatest discoveries of this century . |
| 5 | ‘ He did n't 'alf like them , he said he 'd give me a penny every time I showed them . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm glad he did n't that night . ’ |
| 7 | He did n't that . |
| 8 | His Dad insisted he locked his bike , but he did n't this time . |
| 9 | He did n't half go into him with his stick . |
| 10 | Naturally , he tried to hush it up after , but your dad got to hear of it from the doctor and he did n't half go for Josh — you can imagine . |
| 11 | Procter 's anger at this annoyed Lloyd so much that he told his captain he was going to hit him over the pavilion ; and he did just that — next ball . |
| 12 | He did just that . |
| 13 | ( Look back at the Cliff Gallup solos we covered in June and July and you 'll notice he did just that , too . ) |
| 14 | This prompted an unusually animated argument between counsel and the judge , who was clearly outraged at what he expressly called the crass incompetence of the Crown Prosecution Service in serving and making part of the prosecution case a witness they knew would support the defendant and then seeking to discontinue when predictably he did just that . |
| 15 | As the fight progressed , Ferguson sensed he could beat the overconfident Mercer and he did just that on points in New York on February 6 . |
| 16 | He did just that . |
| 17 | And six months later he did just that . |
| 18 | He did just six minutes later . |
| 19 | This is becoming about as routine as Cal Peete leading driving accuracy , which he did again this year , hitting 753 out of 900 . |
| 20 | This time he came with nine ships , and a determination to win agreement from the Japanese — and he did precisely that , concluding a treaty of peace and friendship that — unknown to all its signatories — was to have consequences of shattering proportions . |
| 21 | He did precisely that , on the Day of Pentecost ; and the gift has never been withdrawn . |
| 22 | And he did far more than help them just to survive . |
| 23 | In his letter of acceptance he wrote , ‘ I gladly accept and I shall do all I can for you , ’ and he did literally that . |
| 24 | If , in the years to follow , he did relatively little to help the Valois war effort , his defection greatly angered the English who reacted in strongly emotional terms to what they regarded as an act of betrayal and treason against the English crown . |
| 25 | Chapter Five argued that the main problem in discussing the peasant question in the reign of Nicholas I is explaining why he addressed himself to it at all , not why he did relatively little . |
| 26 | He did quick mental arithmetic and named a large sum . |
| 27 | Well he did about three laps of the lounge this morning . |
| 28 | I er I phoned him up to let him know I was going in and he 's not too far away you see so asked him if he 'd like to pop in so he did about half eleven . |
| 29 | Though he did very useful work on molecular structure by other means , his main contributions came through his ‘ parachor ’ . |
| 30 | He did very little work himself , but bullied everybody who did . |