Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] so [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I have to admit , if he had stared so at me … ’ |
| 2 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 3 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 4 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 5 | Among the landed classes men expected to marry young ( by our standards ) in the Middle Ages and women younger ; and probably had done so for centuries before our period opens . |
| 6 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 7 | Tillot-sons , who controlled the Bolton Evening News until 1970 , when it joined a chain , had done so for 104 years . |
| 8 | But there was no doubt in law that he had done so — and that he had done so for ever . |
| 9 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 10 | She wore a very sparkly large diamond engagement ring and had done so for about a year . |
| 11 | Both defendants maintained to police that the baby suffered fits and had done so during the weekend he died . |
| 12 | They had done so at little cost to the state or to the better-off taxpayer . |
| 13 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 14 | Or , at least , she had done so at the Young Conservatives ' Summer Dance in July . |
| 15 | As in America , boxing overwhelmingly dominated the attentions of blacks simply because it was the sport in which other blacks had been allowed to compete and they had done so with extremely conspicuous success . |
| 16 | The negotiating cell of the gang had brutally dismantled Ubaldo Valesio 's skull with a sub machine gun while the hard men who had executed Ruggerio had done so with a small hand-gun , a bedside toy for nervous householders . |
| 17 | Not only had she managed to walk past these birds , but she had done so without experiencing the usual sense of panic . |
| 18 | Other people had called them ‘ ladies ’ , even that very morning , and had done so without any offence . |
| 19 | One of the few women who had done so over time without the complement of sexual gratification . |
| 20 | Most countries tax multinationals on an ‘ arm 's length ’ basis , calculating the profits that the firm earned within their borders as if it had done so through a stand-alone business , operating at arm 's length from the parent firm . |
| 21 | Lord Justice Watkins said the Divisional Court could review an order of the magistrates ' court made for the purpose of preventing an abuse of its process and had done so on a number of occasions . |
| 22 | I myself had never witnessed a stoning , but Omar had done so on three occasions and had taken great delight in describing to us the fate that awaited weak women who did not carefully guard their honour which was so prized by their men . |
| 23 | The men defended themselves by arguing that the woman had consented to sex frequently and had done so on this occasion also . |
| 24 | Most of the practices making savings had done so on their hospital budgets , and this was attributed to a combination of setting favourable contracts , making fewer referrals , and doing more minor surgery in house . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) For as long as they were presenting the case , the prosecution had done so on the footing that it was section 18 or nothing . |
| 26 | But he had locked them in last night and he had done so on orders from the Gruagach so they did not dare rely on him . |
| 27 | Crucial to the conviction was evidence from Pederick , who had , at his own trial , admitted planting the bomb and further claimed at Anderson 's trial that he had done so on the latter 's instructions . |
| 28 | According to the report , 42 of the 56 mills investigated ( out of a total of 100 in Britain ) had exceeded their discharge limits at least once in the two years to March 1992 , and the eight worst offenders had done so on at least half the occasions when effluent was tested . |
| 29 | The disc that slipped had done so in such a way as to be digging into my spinal chord . |
| 30 | One night ( this was in the second week after he had arrived , and about nine or ten weeks before The Romance really began ) the man who had driven him away from the Bar had done so in a big , warm , expensive , deep-seated car . |