Example sentences of "[verb] and so [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the new firms that started were under-capitalised and so went to the wall , but the net number has increased by many hundreds of thousands since 1979 . |
| 2 | Ken came and so did Orton and Halliwell . |
| 3 | The EQ had to be re-tweaked and so did the mixer 's , but the end result was a very powerful rock guitar sound indeed . |
| 4 | Mick lined him up , smashed him backwards , the danger evaporated and so did the crowd 's passion . |
| 5 | I began to weep and so did Liza . |
| 6 | Happily the village is now bypassed and so spared the torture of heavy traffic , a blessing appreciated by the grateful residents . |
| 7 | Five minutes later the coffee arrived and so did a call from Brian Harley . |
| 8 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisdiction to determine . |
| 9 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisiction to determine . |
| 10 | I felt like a filly starting a race beforehand , sweating and so hyped up . |
| 11 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 12 | I should be sorry if the debate on the Bill were to be unnecessarily prolonged and so prevented the House from debating the Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill that hon. Members are waiting to discuss . |
| 13 | Until at last there was only one Callanish eagle left , a juvenile whom the others had sought to protect and so had prevented from joining in the fighting even though she had wanted to . |
| 14 | He carried on flying , looking for a place to land and so flew back to the wireless station and decided to land in a field next to it . |
| 15 | When he led her away down the back steps the Tibetan followed and so did most of the crowd . |
| 16 | Russell 's fame grew and so did his practice ; in 1754 he moved permanently to the nearest local sea-town , Brighthelmstone , to encourage its development as a major treatment centre until his death in 1759 when others , less scrupulous , followed . |
| 17 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 18 | All did and so did my mother 's side , they came from the farm up the L up the Loch I mean , that 's where my mother came from . . |
| 19 | ‘ You did and so did I. ’ He looked up at her when she was seated on a calm grey horse . |
| 20 | When a plant has been placed in a low-humidity environment likely to cause water stress the measurements taken so far have always decreased and so revealed the stress . |
| 21 | Coach tours proliferated and so did specially-chartered trains to take holiday-makers to destinations in their own countries or abroad . |
| 22 | The trap in Sam 's boathouse kept intruding and so did Angela Brickell ; the cold threat of khaki water that could rush into aching lungs to bring oblivion and the earthy girl who 'd been claimed back by the earth , eaten clean by earth creatures , become earth-digested dust . |
| 23 | I froze and so did Harvey . |
| 24 | Jim Fleming sends off a Western Samoan and an Argentine while Finlay Calder 's head-butting went ignored and so did some of the forwards from France against Canada . |
| 25 | It seemed he had become confused over the time I 'd said I 'd pick him up , although it was always the same , and Miss Prescott thought he was a little agitated and so brought him round herself . |
| 26 | Thomas Jackson may have found that his own baptism had not been recorded and so insisted on having it written in the margin twenty-two years later . |
| 27 | As the float rose the shaft rotated and so did a circular metal plate attached to the end of it . |
| 28 | But Dot had changed and so had the skirt and cardigan . |
| 29 | But down in the hollow the sunshine remained and so did Delia Sutherland watching her father , her mother , herself . |
| 30 | When Christopher Steffen , reportedly a slash and burn merchant when it comes to cutting costs and staff , quit Eastman Kodak Co on Wednesday after just seven weeks in the job of chief financial officer of Eastman Kodak Co , saying that the team was agreed on the objectives , but had irreconcilable differences on how to get from here to there , IBM Corp shares jumped for joy in anticipation that he was about to be named finance chief — but the joy subsided and so did the share price , off 87.5 cents at $49 when nothing happened yesterday ; word out of IBM is that there is an appointment already to be announced , but unless the fact that Steffen is now at a loose end causes a last-minute re-think , he is not the man that IBM has in mind . |