Example sentences of "they [verb] done so [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | That 's the trouble is n't it Peter , that 's so often the trouble with United as well , they 've done so well this afternoon , but such an important game against Oldham , again I 'm a great Oldham fan , I think Oldham play some delightful football . |
2 | Anyway , I think these young ladies deserve a round of applause for what they 've done so far . |
3 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
4 | But the record since 1945 suggests that it is highly improbable that the British people will play anything like the major role in the affairs of mankind in the twenty-first century that they have done so frequently , if often unavailingly , in the course of the twentieth . |
5 | And Britain 's swim pin-up Sharon Davies added : ‘ We have all been told not to talk about the Chinese and why they have done so well here . ’ |
6 | I am delighted that they have done so well that it is now proposed , even in these difficult times , to increase their establishment . |
7 | It is indeed historic , not because reforms of local government have not taken place before — they have done so often — but because it offers a reform of the structure of local government . |