Example sentences of "which he [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began speaking as soon as he entered the lecture-room , which he generally did five minutes after me hour . |
| 2 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 3 | He could have been in a hotel , had he not needed care and supervision which he blatantly did not get . |
| 4 | If he 'd got any sense at all ( which he probably did n't ) he 'd go to the bank and try to draw out money . |
| 5 | The defendant had been told by the police to leave the scene outside a party where he had been swearing and shouting , which he grudgingly did , continuing to use foul language . |
| 6 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |
| 7 | He was shown the Kurume azaleas , which he later did much to popularize , and collected in Korea and Taiwan . |
| 8 | It fell to William , the only son left in London , to prove the will , which he duly did on 22 October at the Principal Probate Registry ; the body was laid to rest at Abney Park Cemetery , Stoke Newington , grave no. 66,417 . |
| 9 | Peter , however , demurred at this and asked Keiran to help out generally at the event , which he duly did in great style . |
| 10 | I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell . |
| 11 | A few credits shy of his degree at the University of Missouri , however , he took off for Los Angeles , ostensibly to attend art school , which he never did . |
| 12 | He had also taken to haunting the Holborn offices of The Little Magazine : for hours he sat crouched in the coffee bars and sandwich nooks opposite , with the unsettled intention of springing out at Sixsmith — if he ever say him , which he never did . |
| 13 | He had quite forgotten it , or , rather , it had sunk back to the dark , subterranean level from which it had sprung and on which he really did believe his father might kill him some day . |
| 14 | Then , when he returned — which he always did , as quickly as possible , for Smugglers ' Cove ( and its occupant ) were so strong a magnet that he often drove home through the night — then she was unfailingly reassured . |
| 15 | She thought she might find Oliver sleeping on the couch which he sometimes did if he came late and did not want to disturb her , but he had not come home . |
| 16 | But there was a living to be made in comedy which he still did so well and he got on with it . |
| 17 | ‘ Which he obviously did not choose . |