Example sentences of "[vb pp] do so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building materials are currently running a small surplus , but imports far outstripped exports in the housing boom of the late 1980s and can be expected to do so again when the construction industry picks up . |
| 2 | Not until 1859 , when he was forty-eight years old , did he publish it and even then he was driven to do so only because another younger naturalist , Alfred Wallace , working in Southeast Asia , had formulated the same idea . |
| 3 | I hope it will be agreed that those who think that the tax law is justified do so partly because they believe that there is in the circumstances imagined a reason voluntarily to contribute a sum which is equivalent to a just tax . |
| 4 | He had taken the money to pay off debts and had continued to do so even when bereaved relatives were desperate for cash to pay undertakers ' bills . |
| 5 | He had taken the money to pay off debts and had continued to do so even when bereaved relatives were desperate for cash to pay undertakers ' bills . |