Example sentences of "[adj] did so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 22 of Appendix 1 shows that when people have recently bought a major item for cash rather than credit , half did so either because they never use credit or because they prefer not to if they can avoid it . |
| 2 | Of those who did marry , comparatively few did so as young as 20 . |
| 3 | If we should wish to tell you how every one behaved himself in this battle , it is a thing which could not be done , for all did so well that no man can relate their feats . |
| 4 | Even so , churchmen must have disagreed with Cnut 's behaviour , although perhaps many did so diplomatically , that is to say , silently . |
| 5 | 3–8- The Free Presbytery of Islay met and resolved to constitute themselves a Kirk Session , and on 30–10 did so again , considered nominations and elected Neil McNeill of Laggan and Charles McNeill of Lossit elders . |
| 6 | It is the Sidgwick title , ‘ written in cooperation with Queen ’ , that did so well in hardcover . |
| 7 | Cayley attracted his friend Sylvester into studying invariants ( the term " invariant " is due to Sylvester ) and these two did so much research on the subject that they were named the Invariant Twins . |
| 8 | But the expansion which took place throughout the 1980s did so largely without direct government help . |