Example sentences of "had [vb pp] so [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It named the woman because NBC News had done so the day before . |
| 2 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 3 | The other islands followed and had slave majorities by the 1670s , and once they had done so the process was irreversible ; white men could not be persuaded to come to an area where wages were set by the cost of slave labour . |
| 4 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 5 | No firewood could be chopped up until after the landlord had called so the room was clean and tidy , all except for the odd quarry tile Dad had broken during the wood-chopping . |
| 6 | A return to work was negotiated under the conditions prevailing before the strike had begun so the union had prevented a further round of wage reductions ; but this was achieved at such a cost as to convince the leadership of the impossibility of organizing effective strike action in agriculture . |