Example sentences of "he [verb] so [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | It was one thing for his guardian to tell Harry to forget the circumstances of his birth , but would he do so if it meant his beloved daughter had to share that stigma ? |
2 | He is polite and very careful about what he says so as not to offend anyone . |
3 | No sooner had he done so than she wiped the place on her cheek with her handkerchief . |
4 | Hardly had he done so when another unmarked limousine entered the base . |
5 | When Lord Young , the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ( 1987–9 ) , decided not to refer the Nestlé bid for Rowntree to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) , he did so because the effect of the merger on competition would have been negligible . |
6 | Thus where we might add that he killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed , Zande would say he did so because he was bewitched . |
7 | Boulestin was no illiterate peasant : when he called a recipe sauce moutarde he did so because that is correct French . |
8 | He did so when play was about to resume after a stoppage early in the last session of the fourth day , with the score 384 for 7 , and he could hardly have timed it more precisely ; 60 for 3 overnight , and , as next morning it looked as though it might rain at any time , Marshall decided to polish the rest off quickly . |
9 | We have already seen that someone with a voidable title can nevertheless transfer to an innocent purchaser a perfect title , provided he does so before his title is avoided . |
10 | To suggest that what they were doing before was of low priority is a misleading simplification — could one for example conclude that if a professor moves from one department to another he does so because the former is of low quality ? |
11 | Fangorn looks long at the two hobbits when they tell him Gandalf is dead ; he does so because he does n't believe them , having seen Gandalf himself a couple of days before . |