Example sentences of "so [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not necessarily a soft option to tame wild animals , for to do so involves understanding their nature , being at one with it and drawing it into new forms of behaviour . |
| 2 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |
| 3 | Computervision Corp so wants to put its sad ownership by Prime Computer Inc behind it that it is remaking itself in the pure computer-aided design software image of the company Prime acquired as quickly as it can . |
| 4 | Well our M O T guy , fair do you know and he 'll say so and so wants doing , can you take it away and do it ? |
| 5 | If the nearest unit of Orcs or Goblins is fleeing , or if it fails a break or panic test and so starts to flee , then the Snotlings pretend to flee as well ! |
| 6 | The child receives no interest from the parent and so starts to behave in a way to gain more attention regardless of the fact that it is negative and unpleasant . |
| 7 | Lord Byron so loves to hear me play ! ’ |
| 8 | This is a copy of Countryd Top copy sent to OBITS Country Diary for Saturday December 9th Machynlleth : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
| 9 | A Country Diary : MACHYNLLETH : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
| 10 | But research over the past 40 years or so has revealed some great surprises in the natural world . |
| 11 | Trite though it may sound , the Pacific , unlike its sister seas , is an ocean of many worlds indeed — and at the same time by being so has become the world ocean , as dominant and all-encompassing as its immensity suggests it has to be . |
| 12 | These inner conflicts are in part due to the person having ‘ id-impulses ’ which he or she has learned to see as wrong , and so has internalized prohibitions against acting on them . |
| 13 | The Royal Family has thus judiciously assented to this and so has participated in the creation of its own image ; in the process , it has ensured that the monarchy , as an institution and as a symbol , retains a cultural past , present , and ( crucially ) future . |
| 14 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 15 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 16 | The last decade or so has seen significant changes in patterns of employment . |
| 17 | Sometimes , if the child writes in there first I say , I concur with what so and so has said , Well done or something like that . |
| 18 | At least no trace of an attempt to do so has survived among the voluminous Cossack and British sources . |
| 19 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 20 | And it 's no good moaning , so has to go and do something about it , |
| 21 | If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) . |
| 22 | Much RE writing in the past 20 years or so has centred on the raising of ultimate questions , and there has also been an insistence on developing in pupils skills of understanding and of handling these questions . |
| 23 | had to notify the authorities that so and so has signed up for one . |
| 24 | To coordinate the efforts of people working in different parts of the country with different languages has always been a problem , whilst the failure to do so has tended to result in an unnecessary duplication of effort . |
| 25 | This is because until the commencement of the lead time period , the seller has probably not started work on the order , and so has incurred no expense . |
| 26 | The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again . |
| 27 | Environmental Issues , which spotlights this and other surveys on page 11 , is well aware of young people 's interest in green matters and so has introduced a section specifically for them . |
| 28 | Towards the end of his first letter to the Corinthians , Paul challenges the Corinthian Christians on the quality of their love , and in doing so has provided us with a bench-mark of quality as far as the practice of love is concerned . |
| 29 | But the last week or so has provided a couple of classics , little exchanges that appear to have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with ego , bitterness and vendetta . |
| 30 | So and so has started , or will start , alright . |