Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] so [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had turned so that he faced her , his body propped on that deformed arm of his , the sleeve of his anorak empty , the metal forearm and hand stuffed incongruously into his pack . |
| 2 | It was the first time as far as she could remember that any male person had done so since she left the convent school , where the visiting priest would call all the girls by their first names . |
| 3 | Reflecting these last results is the finding that fixed-contract workers tended to have taken their temporary jobs in response to a lack of permanent work , whilst seasonal , temporary or casual workers had done so because they did not want permanent work . |
| 4 | When questioned , Mason , the carpenter , agreed that it was he who had raised the flag , but said that he had done so because he had been prematurely informed of the relief of Mafeking . |
| 5 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 6 | she had said so when they had discussed his teeth . |
| 7 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |