Example sentences of "he [vb past] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does not he feel that unwise comments such as those that he made do not help an already difficult situation ? |
| 2 | Credit to them , they came back , got a great goal , Les Phillips had a great game , made the first one I think , no the second one he made did n't he ? erm But he played tremendous , Les ; he got the passing going and I thought they did very well as a team , we kept our composure . |
| 3 | Credit to them , they came back , got a great goal , Les Phillips had a great game ; made the first one I think , no the second one he made did n't he ? erm But he played tremendous , Les , got the passing going , and I thought we did very well as a team , we kept our composure . |
| 4 | It 's like erm that leisure , I mean he 's obviously learned his lesson when he did that competition that time did n't he and he , he went in and he passed did n't he ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Details of a promotion were discussed with the manager , a promotion in which he expected to do well having sold a considerable amount of Stoddard Templeton carpet . |
| 10 | But if he entered diplomacy at all he expected to do so at or near the top . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Called on to repeat information he failed to do so . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He failed to do so in his brief statement from the Dispatch Box . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If ever he tried to do more — to hop or semi-fly down towards them to try to catch them — they simply darted away and out of reach . |
| 18 | He abdicated did n't he ? |
| 19 | For example , the performance of the hon. Gentleman 's authority , Sheffield , was markedly inferior to that of Rotherham , although the discrepancies of the sort that he described do not exist in those two authorities . |
| 20 | He often worked late and most of the Lab staff knew that he proposed to do so last night . |
| 21 | 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 . " |
| 22 | Hayling would take over as managing editor until somebody else could be found — he 'd done well enough on last year 's dummy . |
| 23 | But he 'd done neither ! |
| 24 | I saw the lie and line , and knowing what he 'd done already , I expected him to chip in . |
| 25 | fifty eight roles he 'd done earlier on in his career and he wanted to sort of you know , have a go at everything |
| 26 | She wanted him to plead with her to stay with him , forever , as he 'd done once before , but this time she would accept and tell him how wrong she had been the first time . |
| 27 | ‘ Not , of course , that I realised what he 'd done then . |
| 28 | He 'd done so once , and seen them writhing in silent laughter . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |