Example sentences of "[conj] so did [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This particular comment was too good to be kept secret and so did the rounds of Parisian society , but in general what everyone remembered about these gala occasions was the sheer splendour of it all , to which the guests themselves contributed by the richness of their uniforms or , in the case of civilians , the elegance of the men and the style of the women .
2 The cutlery was from the same state factory and had the same design and so did the plates , the menu , and the waiters .
3 The toes pointed slightly outwards and so did the shoes , a pair of the finest winkle-pickers that ever threaded the eye of a needle .
4 And , and so did the feet go back .
5 But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties .
6 But people felt generally the better for his ‘ Quite ’ at conferences , and so did the guests at his baffling feast .
7 Mrs James seemed to talk to him by the hour , in the middle of the night , sometimes , he believed , and so did the children .
8 The powerbrokers of the resource industries in the mountain west thought he was going to be their president ; but so did the environmentalists who loathe them .
9 Huge grants of land to the church became rarer ( but so did the chances of resuming what had once been granted ) ; from the middle of the century , gifts were more likely to be of consuetudines from ecclesiastical lands or of other tolls and dues .
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