Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] so " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | According to Geoffrey le Baker , the bishop first of all called upon Edward to abdicate , and in an emotional scene he agreed to do so . |
| 2 | When Henry , who had not been present at the death-bed , arrived for the funeral , he at first refused to take the oath but eventually , confronted by his father 's decomposing body , he agreed to do so . |
| 3 | When he appeared in the Home Circuit Court at Kingston before Theobalds J. on 26 September 1983 both counsel invited the judge to see them in chambers and he agreed to do so . |
| 4 | He agreed to do so , and Apollinaris , the son of a previous bishop , the great Sidonius Apollinaris , was sent off to king Theuderic as the candidate for the office , and was appointed . |
| 5 | But if he entered diplomacy at all he expected to do so at or near the top . |
| 6 | In order to prove it was not composed of ‘ patsies ’ , as Reagan put it , the United States insisted that Arafat repeat specifically worded concessions concerning terrorism and recognition of Israel , and when he failed to do so verbatim , it required him to repeat the authorized US version . |
| 7 | Called on to repeat information he failed to do so . |
| 8 | She waited all day for the Kurd to return , but he failed to do so ; and when she made enquiries the next morning she was told that he had left the town within minutes of conducting her to the priest 's house . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He failed to do so in his brief statement from the Dispatch Box . |
| 11 | A severe critic of the statutes of 1861 might respond to the question " Why did Alexander II free the serfs ? " by saying that he failed to do so . |
| 12 | He often worked late and most of the Lab staff knew that he proposed to do so last night . |
| 13 | As he pretended to do so he hissed in his son 's ear , " God grant that I may not die until I have had my revenge on you . " |
| 14 | He had drawn the cross he 'd seen so briefly , and coloured the stones red and the setting yellow . |
| 15 | He was impressed by what he 'd heard so far , but how was all this going to come about ? |
| 16 | He 'd done so once , and seen them writhing in silent laughter . |
| 17 | He hurriedly tried to wind the window down as he could n't see clearly through the thin layer of frost and condensation , but by the time he 'd done so , the red Ferrari had spurted to the top of the ramp , its undipped lights blinding him , swung to the right and roared down the street . |
| 18 | He said it was the first time he 'd done so but he was damned if he was going to be wheeled into a restaurant like a blasted mental patient out with his nurse . ’ |
| 19 | Knocks it in towards Speedy and got the final ball wrong but a shame he 'd done so well . |
| 20 | She climbed into bed , leaning back against the pillows he 'd stacked so expertly . |
| 21 | He 'd sounded so sure . |
| 22 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 23 | He 'd said so . |
| 24 | He 'd said so himself . |
| 25 | But he 'd traced the mother , he 'd said so , so it could n't be that . |
| 26 | Not that he 'd said so ; he had n't spoken a word to her since the guide had joined them . |
| 27 | He 'd felt so pleased , victorious even , after leaving the depot , that he 'd quite forgotten about dropping the form . |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd cared so much about concealing his past when he was alive , it seemed unfair to reveal it after he was dead , ’ Ashley said ruefully . |
| 29 | Yet though she knew she 'd been a fool and totally lacking in self-control , still tangled in the sensual web he 'd spun so effortlessly , she could n't regret it . |
| 30 | He riffled through the statements he 'd taken so far . |