Example sentences of "[vb past] so [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevin said : ‘ Some people have put a question mark over our away form but we have n't always got what we deserved so to beat a side of Leicester 's calibre is very heartening . |
| 2 | Over such key issues as the European Common Market he had followed a prudent , unadventurous course , only moving to endorse membership at the last moment when political circumstances seemed so to dictate . |
| 3 | For example , when Bernstein showed working-class children a sequence of pictures and asked them to tell the story contained there , they began so to speak from inside it : ‘ he kicks the ball through the window then the woman chases them ’ etc. ( 1971 ) . |
| 4 | I could therefore possess myself of my nephew by force if — ’ he paused for full effect and looked from one to another of the councillors ‘ — if , as Lord High Protector , I elected so to do . ’ |
| 5 | Whoever was on duty would move gently any part of the affected limb , trying as they did so to persuade Jimbo that now the pain was gone he might — I did not dare to say ‘ would ’ — be free soon to walk normally . |
| 6 | When Alan Cairns and other leading ministers opposed the candidacy of William McCrea and James McClelland they did so to preserve the interests of the Free Church and not to aid the DUP by reducing the public presence of Free Presbyterianism in the lists of candidates . |
| 7 | And the first man who pursued me did so to gouge a small fortune out of my father , to marry his true sweetheart and set himself up in business . |
| 8 | When early Christians adopted the pagan altar they did so to represent the table of the Last Supper and placed upon it a white cloth symbolic of the Shroud . |
| 9 | He claimed he only did so to seal the sale of a barbecue which was damaged . |
| 10 | And the second man who pursued me did so to gain a large fortune , to spend on his long-term mistress and their children , and to laugh at the silly girl and her father who gave it to him . |
| 11 | Most of them did so to make a political point and to gain publicity . |
| 12 | Lord Justice Watkins added : ‘ I would not accept that he did so to deceive his creditors , present or future . ’ |
| 13 | At first I did so to console Maman . |
| 14 | When South Africa suspended its proposed seal hunt in 1990 , it did so to await the results of additional scientific research into questions about ‘ harvesting ’ or ‘ culling ’ Cape fur seals ( see BBC WILDLIFE , October 1990 , p699 ) . |
| 15 | It is doubtful how many of those who bestow gifts of coral on infants appreciate that their forebears did so to protect them from bewitchment . |
| 16 | Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification . |
| 17 | There was no time to get back into the right position , take a breath and gently squeeze the trigger ; it was up and bang , and with my whole body unbalanced and both hands on the gun I fell forward , rolling as I did so to keep the gun out the sand . |
| 18 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 19 | If then his actions simply accorded with what was the convention of his society , this was not because he had so to act , or failed to see that a certain convention was socially limited . |
| 20 | at a time after the guest has arrived at the hotel , either the property in question was offered for deposit as aforesaid and the proprietor or his servant refused to receive it , or the guest or some other guest acting on his behalf wished so to offer the property in question but , through the default of the proprietor or a servant of his , was unable to do so . |
| 21 | By massing overwhelming artillery strength on a short front , and replacing prolonged duration of fire ( which had hitherto given ample warning of attack to the defenders ) by the number of guns employed , he hoped so to disrupt French trench lines that , when the bombardment ceased ; a relatively small German force could advance with little loss . |
| 22 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |