Example sentences of "they do so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 They did so mostly because the transactions depended on the new debt burden being temporary while bits of a firm were sold , but the burden turned out to be lasting .
2 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 .
3 In fact , in some respects at first they did so better than Copernicus 's calculations .
4 People did not have to face the problem alone as they do so often when it comes to social security benefit cuts .
5 But they do so only after they 've had their seven rehearsals . ’
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