Example sentences of "[prep] do so " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could extend student loans to part timers in higher education without primary legislation and have not ruled out doing so , but again , cost is a factor . |
| 2 | Winning elections , and governing well after doing so , are two different activities . |
| 3 | But , after doing so , the surviving poor devils were discarded like a bunch of rags . |
| 4 | Lawrence said : ‘ I need cover but there is no question that Ian will stay in the side on Saturday after doing so well against Leeds . ’ |
| 5 | Immediately after doing so , before her new skin has had a chance to harden , she is particularly vulnerable , so before the event , she ties down the door from the inside with ropes of silk . |
| 6 | In Couturier v. Hastie , the House of Lords said it was a matter of construing the contract and it was only after doing so , that their Lordships held that the buyer had not agreed to buy a spes and that the contract was therefore void . |
| 7 | He added , however : ‘ We were n't happy with the way we started the season and although people will make us favourites to win this one after doing so well against Derry last season , all that means nothing . |
| 8 | Yeah well they 've got ta be cooked tonight so you got ta do so and so , so and so and so and so and he 's gon na be cooking all these sausages and stuff ! |
| 9 | We 've taken all this into account , erm I 'm not sure all groups have tried to do that , erm but we have tried to please everyone , we do have some particular priorities and we do want to make significant improvements in service where we can and not necessarily looking for cheap publicity by increasing in lots of places as some people are supposed to of done so where one concludes sometime a significant amount of money in but will have a noticeable difference to their essential service . |
| 10 | The have had er a long grade of time since the complaint was put to the commission , to put a notification in if they wanted to protect their position , but still they could of done so on , on a precautionary basis , and without prejudice basis they have not done so , a longer standing commissioner had invited them to do so ten years ago , they could do so this week on without prejudice basis and that may erm lead to security in the future that they now seek |
| 11 | It 's all a load of bull shit basically , it seems , it seems that the para 's were certainly under fire , with nobody knows and erm , it does , the only thing that is blatantly clear , all these lying transferred by the para 's and they were like dragging them away and stuff and the only , there 's only one member that 's had any thing to do with the I R A that they can find out about , that 's one so at least nine were n't firing definitely , erm , three may of done or may not of done so it looks like the only thing that basic the same is looks like at least nine were innocent , you know its all right for |
| 12 | Had to satisfy that desire , he wrote , yet find a way of doing so that would not have that physical effect on me . |
| 13 | Up to his last days , he regularly walked his dogs , and was on the point of doing so on his usual route from his home — the oldest lived-in wooden house in London , built in 1483 — when he had his fatal fall . |
| 14 | And however silly it might sound to take so slight a fragment of the story , the possibility of doing so says perhaps as much about the richness of the opera as it does about the interests of the listener . |
| 15 | While London did not consult the Dominions much on financial matters ( though it made a public ploy of doing so ) it lacked the political will or administrative means to make the rigorous control of dollar imports practised in the UK effective in those countries . |
| 16 | The thought of doing so appalled us , but there are regulations . |
| 17 | But the strikers who have fought over so many months with so much courage and strength have achieved another kind of victory — they have exposed once and for all the myth of the TUC 's solidarity with exploited workers and in the process of doing so they have redefined the methods and outlook of industrial struggle . |
| 18 | In the course of doing so he could change the face of Britain . |
| 19 | In the course of doing so money will have to be spent on cleaning up the Six ( and , no doubt , eventually , the Soviet Union , too ) to ensure that they make respectable cohabitants of the new Europe which various leaders from Gorbachev to Delors to François Mitterrand have envisaged . |
| 20 | All avenues were explored to see whether such a guarantee could be given by the Americans , but no way of doing so could be found without breaching the US Constitution . |
| 21 | Though some of the President 's advisers wished to use the crisis to drive Britain out of the nuclear deterrent business altogether , Kennedy had no intention of doing so , and insisted on a formula being found that would enable Britain to buy Polaris without jeopardizing the US policy of working towards a NATO Multilateral or Multinational nuclear force . |
| 22 | Dolphins have an impressive ability to imitate and learn , often apparently for the sheer pleasure of doing so . |
| 23 | The social benefits of maintaining the supply of clean air will exceed the private benefits of doing so . |
| 24 | At the very least it might have asked itself how it intended to make money selling American shares to Americans at a time when Wall Street 's native giants were incapable of doing so . |
| 25 | Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them . |
| 26 | It has long been the case that the fact of winning is far more important than the manner of doing so , and since they have found a winning formula they have a powerful argument for keeping it , especially now that the financial rewards are considerable . |
| 27 | Improving life expectancy gave them every hope of doing so , especially if they belonged to the rising middle-class . |
| 28 | A senior executive at Jardine Matheson , Hong Kong Land 's parent , said : ‘ We have not talked to Olympia and we have no intention of doing so . ’ |
| 29 | There is a perfectly good way of doing so on television . |
| 30 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |