Example sentences of "do so many " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were occasions when someone did a large number , and they would bring the job-sheet round and show the others and say ‘ She has done so many , you also must . ’ |
| 2 | Smallfry had forgotten to warn him because he had done so many bad things and caused a lot of trouble . |
| 3 | For decades people have opposed the use of this trap on grounds of its cruelty , and among those who have done so many have called for the development and utilisation of what are called ‘ more humane methods ’ of trapping . |
| 4 | Rarely in Rover 's history has there been a time when it has done so many things so well as now . |
| 5 | Claire sat down , as they had done so many times together , and the years fell away as if they had never been apart and she had never married . |
| 6 | So I went by coach to the old town , as I had done so many times before , and walked to the forge . |
| 7 | She paused , imagining the scene in her mind 's eye as she had done so many times before , trying to picture her mother as a young girl , still in the fresh-faced bloom of youth . |
| 8 | She told me , as she 'd done so many times , that happiness could never be created out of the misery of other people , that Héloise was already jealous of her and unhappy because of her influence with the children . ’ |
| 9 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 10 | I mean , it 's unbelievable , you know th er , he 's done so many breweries and yet why they do n't talk to wo well I mean they must talk to one another . |
| 11 | I 've done so many of |
| 12 | That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way . |
| 13 | They 'd have been worried sick about her , and what could they do so many miles away ? |
| 14 | Many of the singers were what we call verpflichtet : they were contracted to do so many performances and they simply turned up and did them . |
| 15 | I 'm sure he gives them a lot of his time but if you practise and play that much … hell , you have got to do so many other things as well . ’ |
| 16 | So many people had to be pleased or mollified , and it was trying to do so many things at once , that the pages were hopelessly crammed with bitty stories . |
| 17 | ‘ I followed you both the way I used to do so many years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ You made an undertaking with Ronni to do so many hours a day and you have flagrantly disregarded that undertaking . ’ |
| 19 | I 've got to do so many hours that it 's got people upset . |
| 20 | whatever you can , there 's no stipulation you 've got to do so many , you have to do whatever you can , but I expect some people can take them to work and just leave them on ca n't they ? |
| 21 | to do so many big things , Bangor the University and so many . |
| 22 | So many bodies doing so many varied local duties created a lack of concerted effort and so Parliament gradually absorbed these boards into the local government machine by transferring their functions one by one to the local authorities . |
| 23 | We 're doing so many er bathroom first-fix er plumbing , this was the allowance for it . |
| 24 | Pic oh I 've got it for a week and if I get successful in doing so many tapes then I get twenty pound , twenty five pound v voucher to spend |
| 25 | Why did so many of the children put the ‘ e ’ and the ‘ i ’ the wrong way round again in ‘ their ’ ? |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , such a day , and to stroll along as I did so many times in the old days . |
| 27 | WHY did so many people assume that John Cranko 's sudden death must have been suicide ? |
| 28 | It felt like a command , as did so many of Elinor 's remarks — but it had the menacing power of a scientific law . |
| 29 | Oh Lord , we did so many extravagant things — all sort of at the last minute . |
| 30 | In the first case a combination of inflation and world growth ultimately saved us ( as it did so many other sixties ' optimists ) , and subsequently ammonia and fertilizers became one of our most successful businesses . |