Example sentences of "[verb] so [subord] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridges ( 1979 ) certainly does n't think so because he sees the curriculum as a selection from culture requiring value judgements over which teachers have no monopoly of wisdom . |
| 2 | He himself admitted so when he emerged , telling his followers that he thought he had killed Comyn , whereupon one of them rushed in ‘ to mak siccar ’ ( make sure ) : the Kirkpatricks of Dumfries have ever since carried the emblem of a bloody hand with dagger and the motto ‘ I mak siccar ’ on their coat of arms . |
| 3 | When questioned , Mason , the carpenter , agreed that it was he who had raised the flag , but said that he had done so because he had been prematurely informed of the relief of Mafeking . |
| 4 | ( vii ) Where the chairman holds a proxy requiring him to vote for a particular resolution , if no one else proposes that resolution , he must do so unless he considers that there is good reason for not doing so ( r 6.89 ) . |
| 5 | He is not obliged to deal with proofs lodged after the last date for proving but may do so if he thinks fit ( r 11.3(2) ) . |
| 6 | Unfortunately he had n't repeated that success and Inspector he had remained , and would do so until he left the force . |
| 7 | In highlighted pen that you know so when he goes out with someone in ninete , in two thousand he 'll say to someone the last time I went out with someone was in nineteen ninety three . |
| 8 | He must have decided to do so because he took on an apprentice the day after he was freed . |
| 9 | He would go some way to doing so if he told the House tonight that he intends to monitor carefully what is happening and to initiate independent research into the strengths and weaknesses of the new system in its initial stages . |
| 10 | Indeed he would be doing so if he did no more than move an item from one place on a shelf to another . |
| 11 | I suspect that he is doing so because he believed what the Home Secretary said when he intervened . |
| 12 | You would n't have spoken so if he 'd been alive , ’ Miss Phoebe protested . |
| 13 | He was on the point of saying so when he despaired . |
| 14 | After a year at training college to qualify as a teacher , he had two years at a comprehensive school in St Neots , Hunts. , but he wanted to achieve much more as a music teacher and did so when he became assistant director at Sevenoaks . |
| 15 | He dared not do so for he knew one thing for certain — that he had never really fallen out of love with this stunningly beautiful girl . |
| 16 | I do so because he made much clearer the philosophical basis of such a position than Milton Friedman does in , for example , Capitalism and Freedom . |
| 17 | Feelings , the Collector now suspected , were just as important as ideas , though young Fleury no longer appeared to think so for he had given up talking of civilization as a " beneficial disease " ; he had discovered the manly pleasures to be found in inventing things , in making things work , in getting results , in cause and effect . |
| 18 | v.etc. ) , and that she does so when he appears cross-gartered may be an instance of humouring a madman by descending to his level ( III.iv. 16ff . ) . |
| 19 | Fangorn looks long at the two hobbits when they tell him Gandalf is dead ; he does so because he does n't believe them , having seen Gandalf himself a couple of days before . |
| 20 | I see so if he gets |
| 21 | For a long time Roe has harboured a desire to do some commentating so when he had the chance at the European he took it with both hands . |