Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] so [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are not obliged to tell anyone at school of your child 's HIV status , but you may choose to do so if you feel it is best for your child to have a trusted adult who knows the situation . |
| 2 | We might begin to think so if we reflected that in parlour games the rules never change , and then noticed that this year the most accomplished of our poets in their forties published , sixty years after Pound 's Lustra and Eliot 's Prufrock , an ambitious poem in the shape of fifteen interlinked pentameter sonnets . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ? |
| 5 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 6 | They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings . |
| 7 | I knew Mum would not have done so because they did n't get on , although I never found out why . |
| 8 | ‘ I should n't have said so if I was n't . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You would n't have thought so if you 'd heard him shouting after me as I ran away , ’ Sarah said . |
| 10 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 11 | Indeed , they would probably not wish to do so unless it was centrally heated . |
| 12 | But I might not wish to do so because I might believe it to be wrong to buy an Italian car for one reason or another . |
| 13 | Nor would she wish to do so if he were to marry Cora-Beth , no matter how nice the girl was . |
| 14 | And how are we to make alliances with those women or are we to say that we do not wish to do so until they 've gone through a greater degree of learning process . |
| 15 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 16 | You would n't have spoken so if he 'd been alive , ’ Miss Phoebe protested . |
| 17 | ‘ She will have to say so before I take her back . ’ |
| 18 | Obviously if the demands upon us outweigh our resources this will create stress and will continue to do so until we act either to strengthen our resources or reduce the demands upon us or both . |