Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] so [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One suspects that the writers were not altogether clear in their own minds ; the monk of Croyland , for all his extravagant remarks about the northerners , also spoke in terms of the ‘ sovereignty of England ’ , when describing a prophecy among the Welsh , whom he certainly regarded as different , that they would recover it from the English , although they failed to do so in 1469 ( 14 , p.543 ) . |
| 2 | There were times when he felt cut off by some imponderable barrier ; the usual sights and sounds reached him but they seemed to do so through a screen of interference , like a badly tuned radio . |
| 3 | Although Israel had to obey the laws in blind trust ( when they chose to do so at all ) , we can see how those laws were actually working for the nation 's health and wellbeing . |
| 4 | On royal orders , the towns were directed to see to their defences , and they had to do so by finding their own sources of finance through local effort . |
| 5 | They had done so at little cost to the state or to the better-off taxpayer . |
| 6 | As in America , boxing overwhelmingly dominated the attentions of blacks simply because it was the sport in which other blacks had been allowed to compete and they had done so with extremely conspicuous success . |
| 7 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 8 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 9 | Even if somebody had picked it up , maybe they had done so by mistake . |
| 10 | They had done so by being in the right place at the right time , for the first and last time in their history . |
| 11 | Their opponents linked the negative phenomena in Chinese society with ‘ bourgeois contamination ’ , as they had done so in the ‘ spiritual pollution ’ campaign . |
| 12 | Of the places which did not petition in 1814 , although they had done so in 1792 , some 40 per cent were in Scotland . |
| 13 | Rock art evidence suggests that they had done so in pre-historic times . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , 12 members of the Cabinet did visit the shrine on Aug. 15 ( and at least three others had visited it earlier in the month ) , although most claimed that they had done so in a private capacity . |
| 15 | True , they had done so in Roman times , but since then the state 's institutional decline meant that the terms of the competition had shifted in favour of the regions and the aristocracy . |
| 16 | They had done so after a period of co-operation and consultation with East Germany which looks in retrospect like a laying of the groundwork for what was to come in both Germanys . |
| 17 | They had stood so for more than two hundred and forty years now , victims of the great Ko Ming purges of the 1960s , their ruin becoming , with time , a natural thing — part of the bleak and melancholy landscape that surrounded them . |
| 18 | ‘ For nothing , David , ’ said Julia , knowing that it was her fault and not his that they had got so near the brink . |
| 19 | On the great northern coalfield they did not work underground after 1780 , although to some extent they continued to do so at some pits in Yorkshire , Lancashire and Cumberland . |
| 20 | Despite the failure to ratify SALT II both Superpowers adhered to the terms of the treaty ( they continued to do so until 1986 ) and in mid-1982 a new round of talks on strategic weapons began , called START , which aimed not simply to place limits on strategic arms but to reduce them . |
| 21 | They continued to do so among all kinds of paper until about the early 1950s ( Table 3.1 ) . |
| 22 | Their public excuse was that they attempted to do so in the Social Security Act 1986 , but it has clearly been a failure . |
| 23 | When , in the past , men were confronted with the problem of differentiating themselves from animals they tended to do so in terms of human attributes such as self-consciousness , rationality , free-will , or the possession of a soul or a moral sense . |