Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] so and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paid up , thinking of the Pascoes praying visitors should do so and save the precious fabric . |
| 2 | If by established principles of English law it is clear that Derbyshire County Council has the right to sue for libel then this court must say so and let the action proceed . |
| 3 | You notice in that quotation that Adams says that they may study so and so . |
| 4 | If I see this and if I see that , then that means something else , and that something else taken in conjunction with something else that I see might suggest so and so , and so on . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll go so and see to his dinner . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | And er , then I should go to the bobbin shop and ask them if they could get these done today and er , well we got this on , I said no but I , we want it if you could leave them on one side and erm I used to er I , I became , if I might say so and I 'm not boasting or bragging or anything , Michael , I 'm trying to tell you the situation as it was and er I was a very important man to and er they er got me er at one time to er figure out , they , they used to make what was called Woolworths locks . |
| 8 | ‘ I remember that my invitation extended to 14 days , but it was so arranged that any visitor who might have to leave for the day could do so and could return again . |
| 9 | You can sit there and say , I could go so and so if I want , but not bother . |
| 10 | Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem . |
| 11 | I would think so and the particularly the folk living in the towns consciously tended to use less Orcadian you know they they 'd more dealings with folk from outside the islands for one thing and folk come on in off ships and so on . |
| 12 | Since most women did marry , most teenage girls assumed that they would do so and that they would give up work then . |
| 13 | The neo-classical economists argued that it would do so and , therefore , that all Keynes had done in effect was to add a single assumption to the neo-classical system : the assumption that wages and prices were inflexible downwards because of the existence of trade unions and other restrictive practices ( which , of course , was well known anyway ) . |
| 14 | Even though the Government may be afraid to say what has been paid for the companies , we shall do so and will be able to compare the selling price with the asset stripping price when that process is engaged in . |
| 15 | To a readership schooled in ménages from Anna Karenina to Dynasty it would seem so and yet we are never really sure . |
| 16 | Well I would imagine so and I th I think if I talk to Jane |
| 17 | And many of my staff in s in not just but one or two others , see this as the tail wagging the dog if you like where somebody says , you will do so and so , or you know , I 'm telling you you 'll do this . |
| 18 | We will do so and remain steadfastly independent of pressure from whatever quarter . |
| 19 | If the result be unjust but inevitable , the judge may say so and invite Parliament to reconsider its provision . |
| 20 | I do n't need to copy it down when initially build it but er I might just put a little bit of extra work in I can make so and can copy it down . |
| 21 | The key question is now no longer whether stress accelerates ageing — there is a growing medical consensus that it can do so and often dramatically — but how best to prevent it . |