Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] so [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence showed that the plaintiff would have worn the goggles if he had been firmly instructed to do so and supervised . |
| 2 | She said he had agreed to do so but had driven off when she shouted for her father . |
| 3 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 4 | which the House of Lords would have exercised if it had been asked to do so but had not in fact been so asked , Berry ( No. 2 ) would have been a very easy case for the Court of Appeal to deal with , but there is no indication that it found Berry ( No. 2 ) to be so simple . |
| 5 | We can not create reasons just by intending to do so and expressing that intention in action . |
| 6 | On being told by the manager to check with the bank , he pretended to have done so and assured the manager that the cheque was ‘ as good as cash , ’ whereupon the manager authorised the transaction . |
| 7 | People who smoke or otherwise abuse their bodies choose to do so and drain millions from the NHS budget . |
| 8 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 9 | They wished to kill and devour the father and then imagined that they had done so and felt guilty — is this what happened ? |
| 10 | He clearly regards the management of the mound as his own particular responsibility and expertise , for if the female comes to the mound to lay at a time when opening it might cause a dangerous fluctuation in its temperature , he will refuse to do so and drives her away . |
| 11 | If the innocent party is the buyer and he has not paid then he may simply refuse to do so and return the goods if he has already received them . |
| 12 | I wrote to say so and received a courteous reply from the producer , who said , ‘ I 'm interested in the DIY approach you suggest and in our next series perhaps we 'll look at this more closely . ’ |
| 13 | If an insolvency practitioner is appointed as interim receiver , he must give security and if he fails to do so and keep it up , then he can be discharged as interim receiver ( rr 6.54 and 6.55 ) . |
| 14 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 15 | Ukraine has failed to do so and seems to be stalling , despite a carrot of £120 million in US economic aid . |
| 16 | She had lived so long within its walls that , when the great-grandfather of Miss Douglas found it necessary to abandon the castle from its ruinous state , she refused to do so and continued to find shelter there till her death , towards the beginning of the last century . |
| 17 | Most came to terms with the constraints of the existing order but a radical wing refused to do so and dreamed of a society run on rational lines laid down by acknowledged experts ( themselves ) — a society they dubbed ‘ socialist ’ . |