Example sentences of "he do [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he did confess to one problem — when the washing goes out , the sundial has to be moved . |
| 2 | He did not go to the Grammar School , as has been stated elsewhere ; but he did go to Dr. Henry Clarke 's mathematical school in Salford , answering four mathematical questions in 1775 , and three the following year . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ drawled Odell unexpectedly , ‘ he did go to the kidnappers alone and unarmed — except for some goddam marzipan . |
| 4 | And I said ‘ All right then ’ and I cracked a joke and he did go to the supervisor . |
| 5 | He was supposed to go down well he did go to a meeting , but in he comes first of all . |
| 6 | If ever he did go to the bazaar he would expect the shopkeepers to stand up when he entered … |
| 7 | If he did go to Medewich on Thursday . |
| 8 | But he did go to church , so perhaps she was right . |
| 9 | He did go to an addiction centre and at present he is clear . ’ |
| 10 | but he did go to sleep about then |
| 11 | He did go to school |
| 12 | On one occasion he ostentatiously refused a challenge from an infuriated opponent in a lawsuit , preferring to endure public humiliation rather than call out his tormentor ( though he did complain to the Commons of the breach of privilege ) , and earned the public thanks of the Society for setting such a ‘ noble and Christian ’ example . |
| 13 | Perhaps he did want to be in the team ? |
| 14 | It seemed that he did want to , for he answered her question far more fully than he need have done . |
| 15 | But he did want to be asked . |
| 16 | He did mention to me now I 'd forgotten until |
| 17 | He did talk to his wife , Empress Farah , but otherwise he had never been at ease with Iranians . |
| 18 | But he did refer to a spectator and an alleged verbal and physical abuse on Dooley and himself . |
| 19 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 20 | To make matters worse , when he did refer to a rex he failed to name him . |
| 21 | Nightmares and night-time anxiety , are a regular feature of Leonard 's work , though he did remark to us , ‘ I do n't think that I was scarred by anything . ’ |
| 22 | He did speak to Murray on the phone but says he can not clear the mystery until he has a chance to study the report in detail . |
| 23 | But occasionally he did speak to us , telling more funny stories , offering encouragement and giving me advice and demonstrations on how to improve my golf stroke . |
| 24 | Oh he did speak to you ? |
| 25 | He did s yeah he did speak to her . |
| 26 | But the other thing that worried me , he was inclined to be erm mind you I felt aggression in his sermon a little , but he did incline to be very uptight . |
| 27 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 28 | Simon said goodness knew he did object to being blown to pieces : but , No . |
| 29 | Though in some ways Colin was quite close to his drivers — closer to some than to others — he was , in financial matters , something of a cheese-parer and though his sponsors were generally reasonably generous , even at the height of Lotus 's reputation he neither enjoyed the kind of largesse available to some teams nor , with his many other commitments and his fairly flamboyant life style , could devote all of what he did receive to his team . |
| 30 | I think he did say to me once that he was very disturbed at how much coke David was doing , and it got to the point where he did n't hide it in front of DeFries , whereas he did , for quite a while , at first . |