Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] so [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has done so at the expense of sharp cuts in living standards and in expenditure on its long-established system of social services and free education . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend always speaks out powerfully for Basildon : he has done so for the past eight years , and I have no doubt that he will do so for the next eight . |
| 3 | Can I just say , first of all , that I am the odd-speaker out in this gathering because virtually everyone else who has addressed you has done so from the point of view of their own particular expertise and occupation and those of you who know health councils will appreciate that they tend to take a pretty robust view of private care as it impinges on anything to do with health . |
| 4 | The Committee has done so in the past , but the Government have taken no notice . |
| 5 | Solvent can kill and has done so in the past . ’ |
| 6 | The New Zealand experience suggests that those who proceed with ‘ open ’ adoption are not altogether the same as those who would have done so under the more traditional approach . |
| 7 | Employees ' representatives counter that many that accepted early retirement offers would never have done so without the promise that medical expenses would be covered for life . |
| 8 | Whether they would have done so without the force , is simply history . |
| 9 | Yet she could not have done so without the help of a young French countess , Sybille de la Borde . |
| 10 | She could hardly have done so without the Archdeacon 's leave . |
| 11 | Eubank looked as though he was going to finish off Thornton in the ninth round — and should have done so in the tenth . |
| 12 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 13 | Yet even as one half of her mind speculated on its significance , the other half reminded her that if she had stumbled on this odd circumstance , then the police would almost certainly have done so in the course of their routine enquiries and , since Barney was still their prime suspect , found a satisfactory explanation . |
| 14 | And , after all , would you have done so in the same situation ? |
| 15 | It is important to consider the link and the station together , and British Rail and the Government should have done so from the word go . |
| 16 | In an experiment , leaf-cutter ants of the species Atta texana had to follow a trail by walking along a plastic roadway placed just above the trail ; they followed the trail as usual , but must have done so by the airborne odour of evaporated scent . |
| 17 | IT MIGHT not have seemed so at the time , but Troy Coker 's sending-off for punching against Bath proved to be a blessing in disguise for the quarrelsome Queenslander . |
| 18 | Whatever dread and resentment the Soviet regime inspires amongst its own population , that regime has solved the perennial problem of Russia 's vulnerability , and is seen to have done so by the common people of the land . |
| 19 | Although it was the king , not the chief lord of the fee , who issued the licences , he seems to have done so from the start — and certainly after 1292 — only with the assent of the chief lords . |
| 20 | The poll tax returns for some areas in the West Midlands suggest that little more than one village in ten had resident gentry , and in Leicestershire the situation seems to have been similar , and to have remained so into the sixteenth century . |
| 21 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 22 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 23 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 24 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 25 | Both defendants maintained to police that the baby suffered fits and had done so during the weekend he died . |
| 26 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 27 | Or , at least , she had done so at the Young Conservatives ' Summer Dance in July . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) For as long as they were presenting the case , the prosecution had done so on the footing that it was section 18 or nothing . |
| 29 | Crucial to the conviction was evidence from Pederick , who had , at his own trial , admitted planting the bomb and further claimed at Anderson 's trial that he had done so on the latter 's instructions . |
| 30 | Their opponents linked the negative phenomena in Chinese society with ‘ bourgeois contamination ’ , as they had done so in the ‘ spiritual pollution ’ campaign . |