Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] so [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most headhunters argue that the candidates who criticise them do so because they , the candidates , have been unsuccessful . |
| 2 | No sooner has it done so than another baby joins on behind in the same way and within a few seconds , the entire litter has formed a caravan behind their parent . |
| 3 | To speak in the same right tones , a causal circumstance can be said to comprise everything needed so as in a way to guarantee its effect . |
| 4 | Rachel could have brought the snow in and let it melt so as to distract attention from herself . |
| 5 | In our view , Clause 28 does not stop them doing so unless they are setting out intentionally to promote homosexuality … . |
| 6 | erm assume you do so if I if you know what three fours are |
| 7 | Suppose that the father had later authorised the creditor to sue for the balance of the debt — or required him to do so as trustee ( see Vaughan Williams L.J. ) ? |
| 8 | My husband did n't like me talking about the theatre although he had encouraged me to do so when we were courting . |
| 9 | I think I think so because if if we leave it any |
| 10 | No sooner had we done so when a staff officer drove up in a car , accused us of looting and ordered us to put the tins back in the cases . |
| 11 | Please permit her to do so as arranged with you by phone . |
| 12 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 13 | No sooner had he done so than she wiped the place on her cheek with her handkerchief . |
| 14 | Hardly had he done so when another unmarked limousine entered the base . |
| 15 | Thus where we might add that he killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed , Zande would say he did so because he was bewitched . |