Example sentences of "had done so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 2 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 3 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 4 | The General Council of British Shipping quotes a survey as reporting that those ships which had been found to use the Minches route had done so only because of poor weather conditions . |
| 5 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |