Example sentences of "have [verb] so [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it was the first time he 'd done so but he was damned if he was going to be wheeled into a restaurant like a blasted mental patient out with his nurse . ’ |
| 2 | like before the break when you want to have a permanent record of what you 'd done so that you ca n't turn round and say well I do n't remember them conversation |
| 3 | Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings . |
| 6 | I knew Mum would not have done so because they did n't get on , although I never found out why . |
| 7 | ‘ I should n't have said so if I was n't . ’ |
| 8 | However , before you sally forth on your next video shoot , take a long , cool look at your first tape to identify any mistakes you may have made so that you can avoid them next time . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | You would n't have spoken so if he 'd been alive , ’ Miss Phoebe protested . |
| 13 | ‘ She will have to say so before I take her back . ’ |
| 14 | " I 've worked until I 've dropped so that I should fall asleep with exhaustion and not lie awake remembering you . |
| 15 | He had turned so that he faced her , his body propped on that deformed arm of his , the sleeve of his anorak empty , the metal forearm and hand stuffed incongruously into his pack . |
| 16 | It was the first time as far as she could remember that any male person had done so since she left the convent school , where the visiting priest would call all the girls by their first names . |
| 17 | Reflecting these last results is the finding that fixed-contract workers tended to have taken their temporary jobs in response to a lack of permanent work , whilst seasonal , temporary or casual workers had done so because they did not want permanent work . |
| 18 | If he had done so because he genuinely believed himself to be alone and was unaware that a mounted rider was behind a clump of trees nearby , though the horse as a result took fright , he might still plead that his action was not reckless . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 21 | It took nearly two hours to get the pony out on to solid ground , but when they had done so and he was examined , Farmer Yatton was able to tell the thankful Angela that her pet had come to no real harm . |
| 22 | she had said so when they had discussed his teeth . |
| 23 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 24 | The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard . |
| 25 | Er so what I 'm looking for is to try and see that we do all we can to make sure that the second half of ninety three we take full advantage of everything that we 've got so that we do actually rapidly increase our productivity in the second half of the year . |
| 26 | It does n't get at what you want either but it 's one of the system that we 've got So if you write something th that you for a piece of , an essay that you got say a two one for and then you write an appalling piece , you might still get a two one for it under exam conditions |
| 27 | ‘ This is not some countries , ’ retorted my mother , perhaps wondering again whether the money she had spent so that I might learn French and a little grace had been utterly wasted , for I had learned only superstition and discontent . |
| 28 | Several mentioned that in recent years the rate of voluntary leaving had decreased so that they were no longer able to rely upon increasing or slowing down the rate of recruitment to maintain their labour forces at the desired level . |
| 29 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |
| 30 | The range of Iain 's reading was a constant surprise to me , and he had that rare ability to remember what he had read so that he could pass it on . |