Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] so [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Just temper , Daddy , darling , ’ she muttered under her breath , her anger threatening to bubble to the surface , only failing to do so because of the sickening throb in her forehead . |
2 | It was the same mentality that led him into the folie de grandeur of thinking that , having been a champion driver , he was also fitted to run a motor-racing team — indeed , to think that he was better fitted to do so than those for whom he had worked and driven . |
3 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | As is well known , he wrote in the ‘ Foreword ’ to the second edition : ‘ I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations , and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence . ’ |
6 | They were not legally entitled to do so as teenagers and various factors may trigger their desire to find their birth parents at this stage . |
7 | If ‘ the investigation ’ has ceased for the purpose of enabling the Director to question the suspect , then they must equally have ceased so as to terminate all her other powers . |
8 | QPR are not good enough to finish in the top six , according to Trevor Francis , their player-manager , but they should have won and would surely have done so but for a mind-boggling miss by Andy Sinton when it was 2-2 . |
9 | As indicators showed that the quality of air fell to " very poor " in some areas , the government issued a health warning and urged people in London and other cities not to use their cars unless absolutely necessary , asthmatics and people with chest complaints to stay indoors , and those taking exercise outdoors to stop doing so until conditions changed . |
10 | So you see you need not make your own designs although I think that you will certainly want to do so when you get going . |
11 | The High Elves of Ulthuan have never developed gunpowder technology as have the men of the Old World and Dwarfs — indeed they have never needed to do so as their marksmanship with the bow is superior to that of lesser races . |