Example sentences of "do so [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King hardly needed to have a net laid for him , but had he done so it would have been difficult to assemble , almost in his own backyard , a more obvious team of trappers . |
| 2 | There were several questions I would have liked to have put to them , but had I done so I would have altered the environment for them and made them hyper-conscious of their limitations . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , and to lighten the situation added , ‘ And had you done so I would have dropped all the dishes for your dinner party tonight over your unfortunate guests to show that two can break a promise ! ’ |
| 4 | De Villiers grinned disarmingly. ‘ 'T WOULD not be so bad if I could get some work done so I could visit her now and then , but there 's little chance of that with the Bishop running to the Queen every five minutes . ’ |
| 5 | In fairness to the mother he should have directed that she be given notice of the foster mother 's application ; had he done so he would have learned — as we have learned from the mother 's statement which clearly should be admitted in evidence before us for this purpose at least — that if the matters to which she spoke were correct ( viz. the foster mother 's preventing her having access to and contact with the children , and allegations which she says the children made to her of their physical and emotional abuse by the foster mother and other members of her ‘ family ’ ) , then the mother 's wishes and feelings were not lightly to be ignored . |
| 6 | In fact , of course , we can not even measure what the initial state was , because to do so we would have to take the brain apart . |
| 7 | To do so we would require knowledge which in fact we lack . |
| 8 | In order to do so we must go back to the very beginning of society , explain the original trauma and then consider what consequences it has had for modern times ; for , as we shall see in a later chapter , an inability to accept the truth about ourselves and our societies is probably the most dangerous threat to the successful solution of our present cultural crisis and is certainly the chief obstacle to progress in the sciences of man . |
| 9 | If you fail to do so we will accept no responsibility for any unauthorised use of your Card . |
| 10 | To do so I must sketch the bare outlines of the opposing views on the conceptual issues , to see which one harmonises more with evolutionary conjectures about language . |
| 11 | To do so I must read the eye-witness accounts of those who knew him . |
| 12 | In order to do so it would have to be shown that their father , the Duke of York , was a more suitable parent than their mother . |
| 13 | While Newco remains an investment company ( and to do so it must receive income , other than payments for group relief ) it can carry forward any excess interest which is not surrendered to Target against its future income . |
| 14 | If wood is physically restrained from shrinking when it wants to do so it will split , because it has almost no tensile strength across the grain . |
| 15 | Valentine Cunningham 's excellent study , British Writers in the Thirties , records that , in prolier-than-thou fashion , Calder-Marshall briefly signed himself Arthur Marshall , and had he continued to do so he would have been overshadowed by a later NSS contributor whose speciality was parodying schoolgirl fiction . |
| 16 | To do so he would need Gomez 's permission , and in asking he might arouse the Latino 's suspicions . |
| 17 | the French mayor gains more from a more efficient system , but to do so he must accept the technocratic values of the policy elite . |
| 18 | The Profitboss goes out of his way to discourage report-writing : to do so he will go out of his way to walk the patch and give ( or obtain ) thirty-second verbal reports . |
| 19 | To do so he will need to earn about £18,000 in total , or around £6,500 from the three tournament starts he has left . |
| 20 | It was a high one , but although she was confident she could climb it , she knew that if she tried to do so she would risk being seen from the house ; but beside it was a shallow grassy ditch were she could remain out of sight , so bending double she ran along this ditch , and came to the spot where she had seen Tristram . |
| 21 | The shape of the budget line changes to 175 ; after point 7 the individual can consume more of good X , but to do so she must give up some quantity of good Y. In the example shown the new welfare maximum for the individual is on the corner point , 7 . |
| 22 | In doing so we shall return to some of the issues raised above , including the question of class and sex biases in these statistics . |
| 23 | By doing so we shall become clearer about the problems of nomic conditionals , and hence their solutions . |
| 24 | In doing so we shall begin to explore the ways people respond to and cope with high levels of uncertainty and demand , and to open up the question of whether some of these ways are misguided . |
| 25 | In doing so we shall concentrate in this chapter on lines of research that address the general issue of whether psychosis and creativity are in fact connected . |
| 26 | Without doing so we would know nothing at all . |
| 27 | For by doing so we can change ourselves and thus change the world around us . |
| 28 | Cos when we go in after winter break that 's when we 'll find out er what topics they 're doing so we can plan our lessons and |
| 29 | In doing so we will create the opportunity to deliver an individual service to our members through instant response and while improving our service to the members we will also improve our recruitment potential . |
| 30 | ’ Can pay , wo n't pay ’ is shorthand : written out in full , their credo was , ’ We have the money to make our proper contribution to the cost of essential local services , but , because we wish to indulge in political point-scoring , we will withhold that contribution — knowing full well that by doing so we will force local authorities either to increase charges for the great majority of law-abiding citizens , or to cut services . ’ |