Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb mod] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lie and ask him to comfort M and D and Minny , and Caroline who must feel so guilty and everyone else , even the ones it would do good to suffer for me ( or for anyone else ) . |
| 2 | When the tables had been cleared and those who could do so had entertained the rest with songs and recitations , the whole company settled down for a sing-song . |
| 3 | Anyone who could do so had already left the city for the comparative cool of the country . |
| 4 | We asked anyone who could do so to write a short statement about what the chapter was about . |
| 5 | For those who could do so , to subscribe to the militant slogans of Pravda was not the same as to accept the party line on every issue , still less that of Lenin . |
| 6 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 7 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 8 | At dinner a military band played ; the governor 's wife was ‘ a very agreeable woman , with an uncommonly mild and sweet tone of voice ’ , and the governor told Johnson and Boswell that ‘ the Arabs could live for five days without victuals , and subsist for three weeks on nothing else but the blood of their camels , who could lose so much of it as would suffice for that time , without being exhausted . ’ |
| 9 | I earned a few sous so I became more fantastical , maintaining I had met Brahmins who killed themselves on funeral pyres ; men with monkeys ’ heads and leopards ' bodies ; giants with only one eye and one foot who could run so fast they could only be caught if they fell asleep in the lap of a virgin . |
| 10 | There was one teacher who used to get so mad that she would throw slates around , with the whole class ducking out of the way . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd go first , ’ said Fenella , who would do so unhesitatingly . |
| 12 | ‘ All in all , we now believe that the corner has indeed been turned , although it would be a brave man who would say so categorically with the UK economy still in such an uncertain state . ’ |
| 13 | Since only adults set up households , all those who will do so in the next 15 years are alive now , and we can estimate accurately how many will actually be alive in each age group — except perhaps for the oldest age groups — for at least that period ahead . |
| 14 | So I went to visit the plants for him , went to check , in his memory who can do so no longer , whether the recurrent spring miracle of the Welsh mountains was still taking place now that the man who had seemed almost to stand for its yearly renewal had gone . |
| 15 | Do not expect me to congratulate you , madam , I am too busy congratulating myself that I am not the father-in-law of a man who can speak so demeaningly of any young girl in public . |
| 16 | It is nice to have a survey of resorts , necessarily selective , from a good , experienced skier who can weigh so many aspects . |
| 17 | Anyone who can say so clearly just what Derrida is saying , or doing , immediately puts the reader in his debt . |
| 18 | Anyone who can sound so apparently unconcerned , with his spacecraft exploding around him , and Houston asking him to repeat what he just said , deserves to be called in the words of a fellow astronaut , ‘ a real pro ’ . |
| 19 | Would you believe a politician who can find so many jobs out of his back pocket ? |