Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] so [subord] " in BNC.

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1 I hesitate to do so because that 's actually a source of difference between us and the County Council .
2 Positional accuracy is achieved by means of the equal numbers of teeth on the stator and rotor , which tend to align so as to reduce the reluctance of the stack magnetic circuit .
3 Well in er , this policy any time if you want to surrender so if you need er , some of the money , you can get that money or any time .
4 Nor would she wish to do so if he were to marry Cora-Beth , no matter how nice the girl was .
5 But , when you do check , make certain that you have maintained straight and level flight just previously , and that you continue to do so if re-setting the DI .
6 The expanded girths , embarrassing bodily functions and creative coiffuring I can cope with — but what 's harder to handle is that most groups who reform do so because of shrinking royalty cheques rather than any genuine desire to play together again .
7 The majority of candidates who fail do so because they have been so nervous that they have not been able to think clearly , far less to perform well .
8 she had said so when they had discussed his teeth .
9 Of course the majority of people who volunteer do so because someone they know has asked them and this avenue should not be ignored .
10 This is not to say that whatever mystery you have chosen so as to lead your hero or heroine into these successively more and more suspenseful situations will have to be kept entirely hidden from your reader till the last pages .
11 Because we have been made children of God ; we carry the family likeness through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit ; we want to live so as to please our Heavenly Father ; and we enjoy his Fatherly protection and generous provision .
12 It does n't get at what you want either but it 's one of the system that we 've got So if you write something th that you for a piece of , an essay that you got say a two one for and then you write an appalling piece , you might still get a two one for it under exam conditions
13 We have done so because we think they can do it better than anyone else .
14 Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ?
15 The directors added that they had done so because ‘ this is the basis adopted in the accounts of the overseas subsidiaries ’ , and that the group accounts should be drawn up on the same basis in order to show a true and fair view .
16 They have done so as technology has altered the source of profits in the total system of supply .
17 At night they like to ride horses , and in the morning one can see that they have done so because the horses are exhausted …
18 In many cases they have done so because their goods , produced outside the Community , have been regarded as unfair competition and have attracted anti-dumping duties designed to make them more expensive and therefore less competitive .
19 By and large , those who approved of conscription when it came did so because they believed that it was everyone 's duty to serve in the armed forces in any case .
20 Once a surface is disinfected it tends to remain so until used .
21 Even the Diet did not immediately call for offensive action against Russia , but it decided to do so when the tsar refused to negotiate on the basis of anything less than abject Polish submission .
22 If you make him feel that he should be getting dressed , and he tries to do so before he is ready , in rehabilitation terms , he will certainly increase his spasticity and make himself even less capable of learning the movements .
23 Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe .
24 If he had done so because he genuinely believed himself to be alone and was unaware that a mounted rider was behind a clump of trees nearby , though the horse as a result took fright , he might still plead that his action was not reckless .
25 When questioned , Mason , the carpenter , agreed that it was he who had raised the flag , but said that he had done so because he had been prematurely informed of the relief of Mafeking .
26 Everyone , Minton above all , pressed him to play ; scarcely had he begun to do so when Minton fell snoringly asleep .
27 Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes .
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