Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish I had red hair , ’ Samantha said to her mother , inspecting herself as she so often did in the tarnished mirror surrounded with gilded laurel leaves and intertwined cherubs . |
| 2 | She realized she was fiddling with her finger-socket as she so often did , but it was a useful habit now and she did n't stop . |
| 3 | He looked away and she said the word for him , anticipating him without quite knowing how , as she so often did . |
| 4 | Glenda Grower stood a little aside , as she so often did — splendid , cool , apart . |
| 5 | Then she retraced her steps , pausing , as she so often did , when she reached the landing . |
| 6 | The plane he so nearly did n't catch crashes , and he is forced into befriending a vaguely familiar-looking German who turns out to be the brother of an old friend … |
| 7 | There were few children lucky enough to visit the cinema mid-week , as he so often did , and that made Frankie feel particularly privileged . |
| 8 | He stopped Henry , as he so often did , in the street one afternoon and said , as he so often did , ‘ Drinking and driving , Henry , wreck lives . ’ |
| 9 | He stopped Henry , as he so often did , in the street one afternoon and said , as he so often did , ‘ Drinking and driving , Henry , wreck lives . ’ |
| 10 | He could n't bear to wake up screaming on the plane as he so often did alone at night at Robinsgrove . |