Example sentences of "done so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also one of a select band of Palace players who have also appeared in the County Cricket Championship , having done so 14 times for Hampshire between 1957 and 1962 . |
| 2 | She was prepared to work hard to get them , and , indeed , had done so all her adult life . |
| 3 | They picked a proper team , not having done so two years previously when they incomprehensibly left out their two best players , Peter McEvoy and Garth McGimpsey . |
| 4 | The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems . |
| 5 | Rather than looking at the proposal we decided that it was so that 's what we did really and that 's why , if you have a look down there right , so all we 're doing then we 're working through the resources and allocating them room numbers erm and then when that 's done so that 's what we did for each of the little rooms . |
| 6 | It must have done so thirty times before dusk . |
| 7 | The survey also showed that 69 colleges provided full-time courses for students with severe learning difficulties , when barely a handful had done so five years before . |
| 8 | It is here that the Germans have done so much pioneer work , and indeed the whole tendency of their art historical studies has been to regard works of art almost entirely from a chronological point of view , as coefficients of a time sequence , without reference to their aesthetic significance . |
| 9 | And much much much much rather feed you brandy with my mouth which has n't done so much smiling since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and did n't know just how much fun this life could be . |
| 10 | It is a great tribute that the Labour Party , having done so much to destroy the climate in which industry is successful , is now having to listen to what we 're saying . |
| 11 | Luke Rittner , secretary general of the Arts Council , said inflation had outstripped grant aid by 6 per cent , and ‘ a failure by government to recognise this situation will be a cruel slap in the face to an arts world that has done so much to adapt to the market economy of the 1980s ’ . |
| 12 | At the same time she remains ‘ isolated from the very social structure which her courage and vitality have done so much to enliven and renew ’ ( Rose , ‘ Women in Men 's Clothing ’ , 389 — 90 ) . |
| 13 | It has done so much for us . |
| 14 | The meetings in Washington recaptured something of the wartime Anglo-American relationship that had done so much to win the Second World War . |
| 15 | The Irish Government was resolutely determined to rid itself of the British system which had done so much harm to the economy . |
| 16 | Moreover , the most impressive and unusual feature of Scottish bonding , the loyalty to a single lord which had done so much to make lordship so stabilizing a factor , was inevitably diminished . |
| 17 | Hughes admitted that one reason for the slow growth of the movement in Wales was that the Church of Wales was in a minority ‘ and there did not exist the sense of peril which , he feared , must be admitted , had done so much in driving them together in England ’ . |
| 18 | Having done so much good among them , the people were all the more prepared to listen to his teaching . |
| 19 | It may be appropriate to end this section with a quotation from H. C. A. Somerset whose research on examination and selection in African schools has done so much to clarify problems and suggest solutions : |
| 20 | Unfortunately , although Robert Stewart had done so much to secure David 's release and towards administering Scotland in his absence , David did not trust him and , in fact , had him imprisoned . |
| 21 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 22 | I usually find , though , that I have done so much walking and sightseeing during the day that , by the time I have had a meal and a bath , I am quite happy to read in bed for an hour and then go to sleep . |
| 23 | ‘ I ai n't done so much . ’ |
| 24 | This was so important ; he had done so much work ; he had to make Jean-Paul understand . |
| 25 | No man has ever done so much to popularise the kite as an educational instrument . |
| 26 | The former shot himself in 1800 after the disastrous breakdown of his marriage to Elizabeth Vassall , the daughter of a Jamaican planter whose wealth had done so much to preserve Webster ambitions . |
| 27 | ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more . |
| 28 | Twenty years earlier , it had been his patriotic rhetoric which had briefly rallied the nation around him and done so much to consolidate his grip on absolute power . |
| 29 | I could not help feeling proud of the missionary personnel who had done so much to help the fleeing refugees at Shwebo , Mohnyin and Myitkyina , and elsewhere . |
| 30 | My brother Dennis has done so much for me , too . |