Example sentences of "do so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sooner has it done so than another baby joins on behind in the same way and within a few seconds , the entire litter has formed a caravan behind their parent . |
| 2 | No sooner had he done so than she wiped the place on her cheek with her handkerchief . |
| 3 | They both rejected the practice which had grown up since the decision of Slade J. in In re Castle New Homes Ltd. [ 1979 ] 1 W.L.R. 1075 , whereby if the liquidator had sued or decided to sue he was refused that order ; if he had not done so but was seeking information to enable him to sue he was granted an order . |
| 4 | The time can be shortened , however , if those members who were supposed to make some enquiry or obtain some information , or to write a short factual statement , have not only done so but have informed the Hon. |
| 5 | He said it was the first time he 'd done so but he was damned if he was going to be wheeled into a restaurant like a blasted mental patient out with his nurse . ’ |
| 6 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 7 | There is no need for the history department to teach the skill before using census materials if the mathematics department has already done so but even more importantly if the historians need to know how to do this at an earlier stage than the mathematics department would teach this skill in their programme of study then the historians must negotiate this with their colleagues in the best interests of the children . |
| 8 | Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ? |
| 9 | Although the defendants had power to cut off the water supply for non-payment of rates they had neither done so nor threatened to do so . |
| 10 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 11 | QPR are not good enough to finish in the top six , according to Trevor Francis , their player-manager , but they should have won and would surely have done so but for a mind-boggling miss by Andy Sinton when it was 2-2 . |
| 12 | Indeed , Hartland and Wright almost carried New Zealand to stumps without loss in their second innings , and probably would have done so but for a debatable bat-pad decision against the former . |
| 13 | I had had no intention of seeking to intervene in the strike and would not have done so but for the ubiquitous activity of George Wigg . |
| 14 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 15 | As is well known , he wrote in the ‘ Foreword ’ to the second edition : ‘ I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations , and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence . ’ |
| 16 | It was the first time as far as she could remember that any male person had done so since she left the convent school , where the visiting priest would call all the girls by their first names . |
| 17 | Had not done so since that first encounter . |
| 18 | She thought how rough they had been with each other , how savage almost , sometimes in an odd way wanting to be done so that they could begin all over again . |
| 19 | RIGHT Reconstructions of finds are often done so that they can be better understood , studied and recorded , and also so that they are more meaningful when put on display . |
| 20 | This is done so that the formulae will still be correct when you copy from F5 to every other cell that is going to be required . |
| 21 | A much higher average might well cancel out these small variations and should be done so that a more reliable measurement would be available immediately without waiting for later processing on a mainframe . |
| 22 | Will he ensure that everything possible is done so that Derbyshire can have its first opportunity to have a university , in contrast with Nottingham which will have two , Leicester which will have three , and Loughborough which will have one ? |
| 23 | like before the break when you want to have a permanent record of what you 'd done so that you ca n't turn round and say well I do n't remember them conversation |
| 24 | make sure it 's done so that you 're not prejudicing your industrial tribunal case by saying that you 'll accept the ex gratia payment but you also reserve the right to take legal advice about the termination of your employment . |
| 25 | But all this is done so that it wo n't shift , it wo n't move . |
| 26 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 27 | They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings . |
| 28 | A variation order or some other delay caused by the client occurs at a time which does not cause additional delay or cost but which would have done so if the contractor had not already been behind schedule . |
| 29 | Hardly had he done so when another unmarked limousine entered the base . |
| 30 | No sooner had we done so when a staff officer drove up in a car , accused us of looting and ordered us to put the tins back in the cases . |