Example sentences of "did so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The servants , who did much of the living which is commemorated here , and his parents , who did so little of it , are placed well within reach of an impartial sympathy in a work which nowhere feels vindictive , and which declines to settle for any final understanding of what went on . |
| 2 | The small foreign person was walking as jauntily as ever , though Bramble realized that he did so with a pronounced limp . |
| 3 | ‘ Chewing gum , ’ she informed Bridget , picking at it with her fingernails as she did so . |
| 4 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 5 | By the time the first sharp feelings of his loss had begun to wear off - it would be very many years before all of it did so , and arguable that it ever did — other voices were beckoning . |
| 6 | Startled , his young student did so . |
| 7 | Another influence — arguably of even greater influence — burst upon him at this time , in the form of Irving Layton , the enfant terrible of Canadian poetry then a local school-teacher , who was invited to participate in a poetry workshop on the campus , and did so with great élan . |
| 8 | Leonard could be depressive along with many other poets ( the psycho-endocrinological critique of poetry has yet to be written ! ) ; he could also be uplifting and assertive ; he could , indeed , write ‘ about something ’ to use Faulkner 's phrase from The Bear , and did so to the advantage of large numbers of people who gladly read , and asked for more . |
| 9 | Many did so think , and fear ; and saw nothing in the religious experience — or that to which it pointed — of the last decade and a half to cause them to think otherwise . |
| 10 | One thing is certain , that those of them — priests , prophets or saints — who did so respond , were usually rejected . |
| 11 | He did so . |
| 12 | Why did so many of the children put the ‘ e ’ and the ‘ i ’ the wrong way round again in ‘ their ’ ? |
| 13 | It was rare for the Leader of the Council to make a proposal ; he did so now . |
| 14 | Arbortech did so by developing a stamped disc with a tooth shape that differs from the chainsaw , to make sweeping cuts possible . |
| 15 | I also proposed they aim for all other dogs ( except known or obvious ‘ nasties ’ ) and people , and to speak encouragingly to Moby as they did so , to keep him relaxed . |
| 16 | What 's more , though it seems not to be generally realized , Pound recognized what had happened and acknowledged it ; he did so in the public welcome he gave to Binyon 's translations of Dante , which employ a very archaic and convoluted diction indeed . |
| 17 | He did so , having ‘ The Hollow Men ’ before him , by insisting on the extent to which Eliot was indelibly American : |
| 18 | When , infrequently , he wanted to write in ‘ some simple metre ’ , he did so ; but when more often he wanted to get away from standard metres , he left them behind altogether , no ghost of them lurking behind his arras . |
| 19 | Those of us who helped constitute the large House of Commons majority in favour of the principle of joining the community did so with our eyes open . |
| 20 | As no rugby country has won at Parc des Princes since England did so in 1982 ( remember Colin Smart and the after-shave ? ) , this result was a revolution of sorts — which was fitting as the match and its prolonged preliminaries were designed to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution . |
| 21 | Goldwyn tried to stamp his own notions of quality and Americanism on his pictures , but he did so as a tycoon , in competition with writers , directors and stars . |
| 22 | Guscott 's , set up by a break by Brendan Mullin , was a felicitous product of the renewal of the Lions centre pairing who did so well in Paris last week . |
| 23 | Only 37 per cent agreed that employers handled applications efficiently and fairly against nearly 70 per cent who thought that universities and polytechnics did so . |
| 24 | The ideal grew out of one man 's initiative and people who referred to Sir Matt Busby as a visionary did so without hesitation because , of all the titles bestowed upon him , none appeared to be more appropriate . |
| 25 | In that campaign , which he ended with a score of 221 , he also rode the fastest 100 by a jump jockey , smashed Jonjo O'Neill 's record seasonal total of 149 , and not only became the first man to ride 200 winners over jumps , but the first to do so under either code since Sir Gordon Richards did so on the Flat in 1952 . |
| 26 | That , after all , is what Don McLean did so brilliantly in ‘ American Pie ’ , a personal reaction to ‘ the day the music died ’ . |
| 27 | Those that have did so while stationed elsewhere , for the district of Easton has predominantly ‘ ordinary crime ’ . |
| 28 | But only 64 per cent of Sun/ Star readers did so . |
| 29 | Overall television fulfilled its public service role of informing the electorate , and did so particularly well as the election drew closer ; while the press fulfilled its self-assigned role as pamphleteers within a libertarian system , and did so with increasing effect as the election drew closer . |
| 30 | Overall television fulfilled its public service role of informing the electorate , and did so particularly well as the election drew closer ; while the press fulfilled its self-assigned role as pamphleteers within a libertarian system , and did so with increasing effect as the election drew closer . |