Example sentences of "did so [adv] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with a diversion from household routine . |
| 2 | Table 22 of Appendix 1 shows that when people have recently bought a major item for cash rather than credit , half did so either because they never use credit or because they prefer not to if they can avoid it . |
| 3 | I did so well because I was hard . ’ |
| 4 | Brailsford , Russell and those who looked to the US to enforce peace , did so partly because they could not convince themselves , in 1916 , that ‘ a revolutionary mass movement for peace ’ was in the making among Europe 's democracies . |
| 5 | Faced by the Welsh emergency of 1283 , Canterbury province granted a triennial twentieth , and York in 1286 possibly a thirtieth , although they did so reluctantly because they were still paying off arrears of the subsidy of 1279–80 . |