Example sentences of "[pron] do so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moderator it may seem a little strange to resist this er addendum but I do so really because er it 's never a good idea to er to be amending what is in a sense a liturgical piece of work on the floor of the house . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 3 | I did so well because I was hard . ’ |
| 4 | While noting that Parolles is given some kind of dignity in verse , we should also observe that Shakespeare seldom ends a scene with a soliloquy in prose — Thersites and Falstaff are the only characters who do so more than once . |
| 5 | But when at last she spoke , she did so simply and directly , for although the moment was solemn , and although it was probably historic as well , these were not creatures who would react favourably to grandiloquence . |
| 6 | She blinked at that , something she did so rarely that it was noticeable . |
| 7 | ( g ) We do not know what the mother said to Miss T. , because she has not chosen to tell the court , but it appears to be the fact that on the two occasions when Miss T. raised the issue of blood transfusions , she did so suddenly and ‘ out of the blue ’ without any inquiry from hospital staff and immediately following occasions when she had been alone with her mother . |
| 8 | We did so not because we did not want money spent on community care , but because we did not necessarily believe that a one-track policy was the best way to ensure the ideal form of care . |
| 9 | We now give a variant of the method of 2.9.3 ; we do so partly because the variant can save computer time , especially if may iterations are required , but also because it enables us simply to bring out certain features of the method , which lead to possible modifications . |
| 10 | if we demand freedom of secession for the Mongolians , Persians , Egyptians and all other oppressed and unequal nations without exception , we do so not because we favour secession , but only because we stand for free , voluntary association and merging as distinct from forcible association . |
| 11 | He has sat and matched the former world amateur champions shoot up the rankings and said : ‘ I 'm glad to see them doing so well but it 's annoying when you know you are as good as them but are not able to do anything about it . |
| 12 | They have not won away for 24 games since they clinched the 1992 title , and there was never any prospect of them doing so yesterday once Ian Rush had struck after 24 minutes . |
| 13 | Martin , tall with a roll-necked sweater under a grey suit , played war games ; John , slightly paunchy with a beard , was into steam trains — he took photos of them ; Julian , fair , well-dressed , with crooked teeth , divorced , spent Saturdays with his children and would expect her to do so too if they suited each other ; Lewis , in three-piece suit and striped shirt , supported the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools ; Gerald , a mild , bushy-haired man , described with passionate precision the arrangement of the plants in his garden . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , they did so well that from then on Emma was asked to contribute on a regular basis . |
| 15 | They did so mostly because the transactions depended on the new debt burden being temporary while bits of a firm were sold , but the burden turned out to be lasting . |
| 16 | They did so impeccably and I believe their judgement was a judgement reached in accordance with the rules laid down by Parliament ’ Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind on the handling of the port sale to Teesside Holdings . |
| 17 | Faced by the Welsh emergency of 1283 , Canterbury province granted a triennial twentieth , and York in 1286 possibly a thirtieth , although they did so reluctantly because they were still paying off arrears of the subsidy of 1279–80 . |
| 18 | In fact , in some respects at first they did so better than Copernicus 's calculations . |
| 19 | Play the harlot ( 1 ) : they did so literally and also as far as religion was concerned . |
| 20 | If they hand in an idea , by mail or in the suggestion box , they do so anonymously and the idea is a joke or an impertinence . |
| 21 | People did not have to face the problem alone as they do so often when it comes to social security benefit cuts . |
| 22 | But they do so only after they 've had their seven rehearsals . ’ |
| 23 | Legally , it will be harder for anyone to do so now that the separate protocol to which we are not party provides , for those who wish it , the opportunity to introduce such legislation . |
| 24 | At the end of 1864 he went to Bombay to superintend a large land reclamation scheme adjacent to the harbour , which he did so successfully that in 1873 the government of India formed the Bombay Port Trust with Ormiston as chief engineer . |
| 25 | THE SOPHISTICATED Miss Gertrude Jekyll , gardening heroine of the Edwardians , commissioned Edwin Lutyens to design her Surrey homestead , and this he did so beautifully that their relationship was cemented and many future joint commissions ensued . |
| 26 | It did so well that the King gave a charter to the ‘ gentlemen adventuring into Hudson 's Bay ’ which allowed them a monopoly of trade in the whole area of the rivers and streams running into the Bay . |
| 27 | Whoever used it did so rarely and left few traces . |
| 28 | Like most of his music , it looks back fondly to a golden age , but it does so creatively and with vitality . |
| 29 | It does so indirectly as probably the most important forum of opinion and vehicle of publicity in relation to the Executive 's other chief constitutional responsibility — to the electorate . |
| 30 | Not only do we not usually think of Snell 's law when we try to net a fish or tickle a trout , but we could not use it to help us do so even if we did . |