Example sentences of "he [vb pp] so " in BNC.

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1 But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ?
2 Suddenly she wanted him gone so urgently that it was all she could do not to order him to get out .
3 As she walked away from him he suffered a stroke , and Alizon was later arrested and tried on the charge that she ‘ practised , exercised and used her devilish and wicked arts ’ and that by these she ‘ had him lamed so that his body wasted and consumed away ’ .
4 For his supporters , the resignation was an embarrassing puzzle : why had he resigned so soon after accepting the presidency , as a result of a quarrel with a " system " that he had largely created , over constitutional principles whose significance he had never bothered to explain to the French people ?
5 However , had he done so , I would not have known how to find Woodbrook .
6 So , when Mr Goodman enquired about him , George was eager to come to Selhurst Park and most Palace historians agree that , had he done so even a month before the end of 1924–25 , the Palace would never have been relegated from Division Two .
7 Hardly had he done so when another unmarked limousine entered the base .
8 Then , deciding boldly not to enter another beguiling-looking passage which , had he done so , would have wasted very many miles and many days ( it is now called Canal Jeronimo , and leads into an immense maze of lakes and passageways ) , he sailed directly north-west , up the Paso Largo and finally into the Paso del Mar .
9 The King hardly needed to have a net laid for him , but had he done so it would have been difficult to assemble , almost in his own backyard , a more obvious team of trappers .
10 In fairness to the mother he should have directed that she be given notice of the foster mother 's application ; had he done so he would have learned — as we have learned from the mother 's statement which clearly should be admitted in evidence before us for this purpose at least — that if the matters to which she spoke were correct ( viz. the foster mother 's preventing her having access to and contact with the children , and allegations which she says the children made to her of their physical and emotional abuse by the foster mother and other members of her ‘ family ’ ) , then the mother 's wishes and feelings were not lightly to be ignored .
11 By a respondent 's notice the bank notified its intention of contending that the judge 's decision should be affirmed on the additional ground that he should in any event have exercised his discretion under rule 12.12 and set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that it was not a proper case for service of the originating application out of the jurisdiction ; and in particular because ( i ) the bank had at all relevant times no presence in , and/or sufficient connection with , England and Wales ; and/or ( ii ) the judge should have applied and/or had regard to the provisions of R.S.C. , Ord. 11 and , had he done so , should have concluded that the claims raised did not fall within the ambit of the order and that leave to serve out should thus be refused .
12 I then said to this young horseman : ‘ Now hop on your wagon and be off ! ’ and he done so . ’
13 You saw him , he was in no case and no mind to hold anything back , nor has he done so .
14 Had he done so , he would have ranked with Priestley , Lavoisier , and Henry Cavendish [ q.v . ] .
15 No sooner had he done so than she wiped the place on her cheek with her handkerchief .
16 The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems .
17 Never before had he seen so many people starving and so many crops dying , their dried remains being simply blown away by the wind .
18 Mr Clayton had not had this evidence , and nor , claimed the Chief Executive , had he said so to the journalists .
19 Why had n't he said so in the first place ?
20 Yesterday , two of them told The Northern Dr Clarke had not mentioned he was standing for the BNP , and that they would not have signed had he said so .
21 ‘ Never has homo faber better understood that he has made history and never has he felt so powerless before history ’ .
22 Never before had he gone so far and labelled himself an alcoholic .
23 Had he changed so much since Maisie 's death , or was he always vindictive ?
24 Had he changed so much , then , since that time ?
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