Example sentences of "and [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Wilson : We know that the Hon. Gentleman is advising both companies — he informed us of that in Committee and has said so again tonight — but is it correct that he is backing Strathtay for his own area ? |
| 2 | And he grows hellebores Christmas Roses to the uninitiated — and has done so professionally since retiring from his job as a mathematics lecturer at Manchester University at the age of 50 , 18 months ago . |
| 3 | He was elected to Middlesbrough Council in 1983 to represent Hemlington and has done so ever since . |
| 4 | The child has initially been asked to compare the number of cars on the two shelves , and has done so correctly . |
| 5 | Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) . |
| 6 | Punch is certainly one of the great British institutions , and has become so much a way of life as to make it impossible to imagine a world without it . |
| 7 | And having done so beautifully in the buildup how did he get it so wrong with the shot ? |
| 8 | The blow was enormous , not least because Knox had been once again reluctant to leave Geneva for Scotland , and had done so only after consultation with his English congregation there , and with John Calvin . |
| 9 | The cloth was linen , for Mrs Maugham held that plastic table cloths were the last resort of the working classes , and had said so often and at length ; but it was adorned with place mats of plastic . |
| 10 | Bob Greener died in February 1970 and the club he loved and had served so well printed a moving obituary in the Programme for 21 February 1970 . |
| 11 | She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down . |
| 12 | Edouard de Chavigny did : he was a fine athlete , with a blue for cricket , and had taken so well to rowing that , even though a late starter , he had narrowly missed selection for the Oxford eight . |
| 13 | Lydia was wondering why Elizabeth had n't asked April to her dinner party , and also why she had been so silent on the previous evening and had left so early . |
| 14 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 15 | Teachers do n't like the idea , and have said so loudly . |
| 16 | Marxist — Leninist ideas became highly influential among the intelligentsia in the 1920s and have remained so ever since . |
| 17 | But both played a great deal of different music before then , and have done so since . |
| 18 | Arguments raged then , and have done so ever since , whether or not the industry was responsible for the long-term destruction of much of the Weald 's best timber . |
| 19 | Many Dwarfs live in the Empire and have done so ever since the time of Sigmar himself . |
| 20 | Older people comprise a large proportion of those living in poverty in Britain and have done so ever since the systematic studies of Charles Booth ( 1894 ) at the end of the nineteenth century . |