Example sentences of "[num ord] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also has to be a front runner for the captaincy of Scotland and indeed , if so chosen , would become only the eighth to do so from the fullback position , following W.D . |
| 2 | Researcher : Why is the percentage of Afro-Caribbean pupils staying on in the sixth form so low ? |
| 3 | and er he said the lad across the road , the hardware shop , he did first aid so he started on him , on the , Clifford resuscitation with the |
| 4 | His arm , at first placed so firmly and impersonally around her , relaxed and instead his hand moved at her waist , caressing its curve . |
| 5 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 6 | ‘ A ’ used tae , but a' never expected tae come here in the first place so a' gave up wonderin' what comes next . ’ |
| 7 | Nicholson had taken LSD , but he had first done so , he said , as a quest — an adventurous actor seeking experiences to file away for the future . |
| 8 | Remember we used to have a prisoner group did n't we , when I first came so that the |
| 9 | Probably HMI 's greatest influence was Aspects of Secondary Education ( 1978 ) , which first commented so authoritatively and adversely on the short-changing of youngsters through the unfettered and badly guided option system at the end of the third year of secondary education . |
| 10 | The latter 's daughter , Lady Joan , is certainly interested in ‘ the Condition of England Question ’ , and his guests include the principled , High-Church , and well-born clergyman , St Lys , who retorts to Lord Mamey that war on the cottage does not at first seem so startling a cry as war on the castle . |
| 11 | In the three years since her father had first called so unexpectedly at the Red House , she had made an effort to see her mother most Sundays . |
| 12 | In that campaign , which he ended with a score of 221 , he also rode the fastest 100 by a jump jockey , smashed Jonjo O'Neill 's record seasonal total of 149 , and not only became the first man to ride 200 winners over jumps , but the first to do so under either code since Sir Gordon Richards did so on the Flat in 1952 . |
| 13 | Although Balcon was not the first to make films in Germany , he was the first to do so on a regular basis . |
| 14 | It would not be the first to do so , though it would be the biggest . |
| 15 | Although they were not the first to do so , they became the longest running and , presumably , most successful pin manufacturers in the Painswick area . |
| 16 | Among the first to do so for this purpose was Adelard of Bath ( fl 1116–42 ) . |
| 17 | The ancient Greeks certainly aged their trees by counting rings and were probably not the first to do so . |
| 18 | But with seven wins from their last eight , the Chargers look set to reach the play-offs for the first time since 1982 — the first to do so after such a poor start . |
| 19 | A number of authorities in Britain have attempted to devise means of sharing decision-making with neighbourhood groups , Islington and Walsall Councils being among the first to do so . |
| 20 | He had carried his bat through the innings , the first to do so for England at Lord 's , thus winning another campaign medal of note . |
| 21 | Louis Pasteur had observed it in 1877 , but even he was not the first to do so . |
| 22 | The first to do so was the Queen of Italy . |
| 23 | She tried at first to do so in a properly genteel way , nibbling daintily . |
| 24 | ‘ But as for forgetting about this morning 's little episode … personally , I suspect that you 'll be the first to do so . ’ |
| 25 | On Oct. 2 the US aircraft carrier Independence entered the Gulf , the first to do so for 16 years , in a move placing its aircraft within range of Kuwait and Iraq without refuelling . |
| 26 | Countries establishing diplomatic relations with the Baltic states before Sept. 6 included Iceland ( the first to do so — see p. 37945 ) , Austria , Belgium , Canada , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Hungary , Italy , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , the United Kingdom , and ( on Sept. 2 ) the United States . |
| 27 | He 's won the Wargrave Regatta nine times in succession — the first to do so in its 126 year history . |
| 28 | People who had at first seemed so friendly and decent and open and neighbourly , but who , after two or three encounters , had turned into ravingly obsessive lunatics . |
| 29 | Treatment for a sexual problem in one partner is rarely successful , or if it first appears so when some mental block is eased , results in the exposure of the problem in the other . |
| 30 | The other member , who might have been expected to buy it for his own son , a young man recently qualified in law , did not at first do so ; he said business was unreliable , there were not enough clients , the reputation of the firm had been allowed to run down . |