Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] so [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
2 | It could not have done so had there not been considerable lack of confidence in these other analgesics and the 80 or so non-steroidal anti-inflammatories use to treat arthritis . |
3 | Referees of DOE proposals usually remain anonymous , and Jones could have done so had he wished . |
4 | It might perhaps have done so had Franco not delayed his assault in order to make a detour eastwards to Toledo . |
5 | Many of those who voted against the government would not have done so had they expected an election . |
6 | We would not have done so had the fee been £600 . |
7 | ‘ I did so after you left , and would have done so had you stayed . ’ |
8 | It is to be doubted , however , whether they would have done so had the Monarch exercised a wide personal discretion without seeking the advice of Conservative elders . |
9 | She had consented to intercourse with him and would not have done so had she known of the disease , yet her consent was not vitiated by his omission to tell her of his bodily condition . |
10 | Their officers might experience at times a tension between enjoyment of these qualities and impatience at their collective uncooperativeness , but few of them seem to have become so downhearted that they ceased to enjoy their work . |
11 | But I think that , you know , we 've got so involved we 've done a lot of work in our time , but now we do n't seem to be erm There is a younger element coming in they tell me . |
12 | By the early fifteenth century the Exchequer had become so overcommitted that creditors had to queue for payment , and a creditor 's place in the queue was determined as much as anything by political favour . |
13 | Some researchers had become so daunted by the devious nature of the virus , which can hide within the cells of the body , that they felt a vaccine would be impossible . |
14 | HAVING BECOME the Julian Copes of jazz café soul , The Style Council parted company because their records had become so deranged that no-one could comprehend even the tiniest part of them . |
15 | He could n't get an immediate break-down of where the money had gone so asked to see the manager . |
16 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
17 | We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will , within market production , be reduced or discontinued , while types which make a profit will be expanded . |