Example sentences of "[verb] so [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 2 | Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 5 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 6 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 7 | His main findings were that 51 per cent had left employment in the destination area at some stage during the twelve-month period , most of these had returned to their area of origin and that 75 per cent of those who left the destination area had done so within the first ten weeks . |
| 8 | It may have even done so within the last few centuries , though no one can know for sure . |
| 9 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 10 | Eubank looked as though he was going to finish off Thornton in the ninth round — and should have done so in the tenth . |
| 11 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 12 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 13 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is not that she believes this evolving female corporate future has yet been reflected by numbers of women employed at senior levels but that it is inevitable it will do so during the next decade . |
| 16 | If God can make matter think in this world , and give us material ‘ souls ’ , he can do so in the next . |
| 17 | Since only adults set up households , all those who will do so in the next 15 years are alive now , and we can estimate accurately how many will actually be alive in each age group — except perhaps for the oldest age groups — for at least that period ahead . |
| 18 | When the gravel was exposed , a stream of clean water flowed from it and continued to do so for the next 7 days . |
| 19 | Rome steadily rejected any compromise upon all three and continued to do so into the twentieth century . |
| 20 | Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men . |
| 21 | So , although the Bolsheviks did not start the inflationary process , they were unable to stop it either , despite their wish to do so in the first few months of Soviet rule . |
| 22 | Although Computing Science ( or Computer Science ) as a field has changed dramatically in the last ten years and will continue to do so in the next ten , I do not believe its boundaries have altered significantly . |
| 23 | These were already declining by 1400 and apparently continued to do so throughout the fifteenth century . |
| 24 | There are many who have already started to vote , or will be doing so for the first time soon , with no first-hand experience of what Labour governments were like . |
| 25 | Where are the projects that might stop them from doing so in the first place ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We did so for the next three years . |
| 28 | He did so at the last moment when the Unionists agreed not to oppose Henderson . |
| 29 | Most country houses and palaces did so until the twentieth century . |
| 30 | It should prove so for the first killer as well . |