Example sentences of "[pers pn] do so [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I do so because he made much clearer the philosophical basis of such a position than Milton Friedman does in , for example , Capitalism and Freedom . |
2 | I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened . |
3 | ‘ I did so after you left , and would have done so had you stayed . ’ |
4 | When I joined the NCT , like most members , I did so because I wanted the best antenatal classes possible and it seemed that I would have the chance to meet new mothers and make new friends after the birth too . |
5 | However , it must be pointed out that there will be an early encashment charge if you do so before you have paid six full years ' contributions . |
6 | v.etc. ) , and that she does so when he appears cross-gartered may be an instance of humouring a madman by descending to his level ( III.iv. 16ff . ) . |
7 | It was one thing for his guardian to tell Harry to forget the circumstances of his birth , but would he do so if it meant his beloved daughter had to share that stigma ? |
8 | No sooner had he done so than she wiped the place on her cheek with her handkerchief . |
9 | Put bluntly , it did so because it failed to convince enough people it could deal with the Conservative legacy and had a plausible philosophy of wealth creation of its own . |
10 | In so far as the system worked — some disputes were settled , some crimes fully atoned for — it did so because it accommodated to the plastic and multifarious notions of justice obtaining within a small group of men , known to each other from youth up , often related by marriage , who had to reckon on continuing to live as neighbours after the case was over . |
11 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
12 | Fangorn looks long at the two hobbits when they tell him Gandalf is dead ; he does so because he does n't believe them , having seen Gandalf himself a couple of days before . |
13 | It might be objected that when the comparison of habituation and latent inhibition gives rise to a discrepancy , it does so because we have failed to compare like with like . |