We did this more to bring out the evidence against us, than from any hope of getting clear of being sold; for, as I have said, we were ready for that.
He did this to alarm their fears, and strike terror into those who escaped.
As he did this, all hands fell upon him, and, after beating him some time, they finally overpowered him, and got him tied.
And every day after he did this, his body and his countenance appeared fairer and fresher than before, and his voice clearer, though he waxed weaker and weaker daily, so that he could not move in his bed.
And while he did this, Pedrarias fell down dead, just without the mark.
It seemed a pity, later, that he did this, but the break was bound to come.
He did this later, and eventually included the entire story, with comments, in one of his own volumes.
He did this, but he had been nursing old injuries too long.
He did this when he heard one of my Novices name me to another as Father Viscount!
The Lord High Sheriff, who had marked down each vote upon a paper on his desk, now added them all up: and there was a great silence while he did this.
He did this using a prism to dissect the white light into its spectrum of constituent colors and then using a prism and lens to recombine the colors to reconstitute white light.
He did this by connecting theory with experiment, through the use of scientific knowledge, especially the Royal Society's investigation into atmospheric pressure.
He did this by using leaden chambers instead of glass globes to collect the vapor from burning nitre and sulphur over water.
He did this by remelting refined high quality wrought iron bars at very high temperatures in sealed fireclay crucibles, together with small quantities of charcoal and ground glass as reagents.
Whenever he did this I was not strong enough to move him, and could do no more than shout, "Come on, come on!
Papa, laughing and putting his hand to his cheek (whenever he did this I used to look for something particularly comical from him).
He did this so roughly that he hit the image of my patron saint suspended to the oaken back of my bed, and the dead fly fell down on my curls.
Why he did this, he himself did not fully understand.
He did this, because he wished to hold his line of retreat open.
He did this by raising his head the few inches necessary to bring his eyes just above the level.
He directed one sharp glance at me as I did this, at the same time picking up an envelope from the table with his other hand.
I mean that he inserted it between the concealed slip and the face or slit side of the envelope; and as he did this he caused the lower end of my slip of paper to pass through the slit in the center of the front of the envelope.
As he did this he slipped each one into a duplicate envelope, which was also numbered by the manager with a ring drawn around the figure.
But, later in the conversation, Martin foolishly admitted that he knew a great deal; perhaps he did this out of mere fatal vanity.
While he did this, I retained my seat by the fire, for I was still chilly.
It was remarkable that all of the busybodies and impertinent people in the parish, not one ventured to put the plain question to Mr. Hooper, wherefore he did this thing.
As he did this a bundle of papers dropped upon the floor; these he glanced at hastily and put into his pocket.
Say that I did this thing,--then Sir Peregrine would be crushed, and would die with a broken heart.
As I did this, something seemed to touch and claw me upon the back, and a huge black rat of the size of a kitten leapt from my shoulder on to the deck and vanished in a breath.
Her father brought his knitted hands together to his brow, and never could I have imagined the like of the look of mental anguish that was on his face as he did this.
Therefore, to tell the time, I was obliged to strike a match, and whenever I did this I would stare at my watch and put it to my ear and doubt the evidence of my sight, so inexpressibly slow was the passage of those hours.
He did this notably in the case of both Vittoria Colonna and Tommaso dei Cavalieri.
Thither accordingly he went; nevertheless, he believes that Niccolò did this in order to get him out of the way, and to prevent the construction of the bastion.
That he did this wilfully, on principle, is certain.
How it did this, why it did it, and so forth, one knows not much more than one knows why and how all the things happened in the novel itself.
That he did this deliberately is so unlikely as to be practically impossible: that he did it is certain.
Perry at the proper, possibly at the only proper moment, that I did this out of a wild desire to see if those marks were really the marks of strangling fingers.
That is what she would wish; but I don't know whether I did this or not.
Did this keep up after you entered the room where you found the telephone?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "did this" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
