Example sentences of "[pers pn] do not [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , by the third sub-maxim of Manner ( " be brief " ) , wherever I avoid some simple expression in favour of some more complex paraphrase , it may be assumed that I do not do so wantonly , but because the details are somehow relevant to the present enterprise . |
| 2 | I did not visit so often . |
| 3 | You do not look so well either . ’ |
| 4 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 5 | Those evenings were the good times , when she did not question so fiercely what she was making of her life . |
| 6 | Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing . |
| 7 | ( Although she did not seem so very surprised . ) |
| 8 | Even the otherwise haughty Surrey committee was moved to complain about this lack of common courtesy , though naturally they did not go so far as to suggest meals should be taken in common . |
| 9 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 10 | Such theories at least attempt to cope with the reality of the female presence , even if they do not do so accurately . |
| 11 | If presented as a guide , not a rule book , and project leaders are free to reject any of its provisions , they do not do so irresponsibly . |
| 12 | However , they do not do so directly , as earlier writers in the ‘ great divide ’ tradition did . |
| 13 | They do not interact so very much . |
| 14 | Over the next few days , however , there were a number of such incidents and some of them did not end so happily . |
| 15 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
| 16 | But he did not do so immediately . |
| 17 | He did not look so much like Francis today . |
| 18 | But he was only young then , about thirty , and he did not have so far to fall . |
| 19 | However he does not go so far as to paraphrase by " see that " , as does Palmer . |
| 20 | Although he does not say so explicitly , this could mean that they were thought of as Trojans . |
| 21 | Although Sag & Hankamer 's theory provides the basis of an excellent account of the considered judgement of literate people , it does not fare so well in explaining their ordinary language comprehension . |
| 22 | Multi-strand , flexible , steel cable is particularly suited to winching because it does not kink so easily . |
| 23 | Apparently the green movement is worried that the rind may carry pesticides ; a new generation of beer purists dislike the lemon ; and it does not go so well with the heavily sedimented style currently favoured . |
| 24 | It does not go so far to ensure proportionality as other variants , but would involve the least departure from the existing system , would retain single-member constituencies which many regard as being a valuable feature of the present system , and would be much the simplest to understand in operation . |
| 25 | Such a population , especially if the average size of a family continues to diminish , calls for more looking after , medically and physically , than an equal population of lower average age : it does not die so cheaply and it does not , medically speaking , survive so cheaply . |
| 26 | It does not keep so well , so make and ice the cake shortly before it is to be eaten . |