Example sentences of "they have [verb] so [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They had done so at little cost to the state or to the better-off taxpayer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 5 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 6 | Even if somebody had picked it up , maybe they had done so by mistake . |
| 7 | They had done so by being in the right place at the right time , for the first and last time in their history . |
| 8 | Their opponents linked the negative phenomena in Chinese society with ‘ bourgeois contamination ’ , as they had done so in the ‘ spiritual pollution ’ campaign . |
| 9 | Of the places which did not petition in 1814 , although they had done so in 1792 , some 40 per cent were in Scotland . |
| 10 | Rock art evidence suggests that they had done so in pre-historic times . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ For nothing , David , ’ said Julia , knowing that it was her fault and not his that they had got so near the brink . |
| 16 | However , local authorities have had a duty , since 1968 , to provide adequate sites for gipsies normally resorting to their area and , where they have done so to the satisfaction of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment , they have criminal powers to remove illegal campers . |
| 17 | Theories that suppose latent inhibition to be a function of what the stimulus itself predicts have been compelled to introduce special explanations to deal with the fact of context — specificity — and , as we shall see , they have done so with rather little success . |
| 18 | They have done so as part of a widely comprehensive output , ranging from chamber music to symphonies and opera . |
| 19 | they have done so on the grounds that the company is entitled to the benefit of those exemptions as a small ( or medium ) company . |
| 20 | In terms of proportions of votes cast at elections , the Official Unionists have recently regained the advantage but they have done so by becoming more and more like the DUP . |
| 21 | They have done so by fixing arbitrary standards of monetary compensation which … are not susceptible of analysis . |
| 22 | Other occupations have adopted the professional rhetoric and even if they have done so in order to enhance their status and monopoly or guild power , they have had to accept the concomitant constraints on self-interested behaviour . |
| 23 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the activities of TNCs , wherever they are and in whatever industry , are increasingly being integrated into global processes of supply , production and marketing and the theorists of the new international division of labour have rendered great service by highlighting these phenomena even if they have done so in a rather one-sided manner . |
| 25 | Accordingly , where humanities scholars have engaged the computer in text creation and analysis , they have done so in a sophisticated way . |
| 26 | I think that the issue really is erm are there ways in which perhaps they could be helped to do this more productively , and are there ways in which they could be helped to do this rather more collaboratively than perhaps they have done so in the past ? |
| 27 | Parishioners say if they want to speak to him they have to do so at the gate . |