Example sentences of "done so " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is here that the Germans have done so much pioneer work , and indeed the whole tendency of their art historical studies has been to regard works of art almost entirely from a chronological point of view , as coefficients of a time sequence , without reference to their aesthetic significance . |
| 2 | So much done so quickly and then nothing . |
| 3 | That a person has done so in order to extract the monnaie . |
| 4 | And much much much much rather feed you brandy with my mouth which has n't done so much smiling since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and did n't know just how much fun this life could be . |
| 5 | I am not now going to engage in lamentations about the ignorance and lack of reading of present-day undergraduates , though I have done so in my time , and could be easily provoked into them again . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Abse has not put Thatcher on the analyst 's couch , and does not pretend to have done so . |
| 8 | It is a great tribute that the Labour Party , having done so much to destroy the climate in which industry is successful , is now having to listen to what we 're saying . |
| 9 | Luke Rittner , secretary general of the Arts Council , said inflation had outstripped grant aid by 6 per cent , and ‘ a failure by government to recognise this situation will be a cruel slap in the face to an arts world that has done so much to adapt to the market economy of the 1980s ’ . |
| 10 | If Cornhill could influence the outcome of Test Cricket , it would have been its patriotic duty to have done so by now . |
| 11 | But both played a great deal of different music before then , and have done so since . |
| 12 | Edwards , Manchester United 's chief executive and major shareholder , was at pains to emphasise that Knighton had been in a position to complete the deal , but had not done so ‘ in the interests of the club ’ and had at no time sought compensation . |
| 13 | It is not merely the fact of Saatchi selling works that has upset the dealers , but the manner in which he has done so . |
| 14 | She is in good form and hoping to break the 10-hour barrier today , having already done so in the European Ironman in August , where she took an individual bronze and a team gold medal . |
| 15 | If party rhetoric and television coverage ever set the public 's agenda , they should have done so on defence . |
| 16 | Once again the weight of television coverage had no effect on party credibility ( though the nature of the coverage may have done so ) . |
| 17 | Nor , in truth , had they done so often in the past . |
| 18 | But the record since 1945 suggests that it is highly improbable that the British people will play anything like the major role in the affairs of mankind in the twenty-first century that they have done so frequently , if often unavailingly , in the course of the twentieth . |
| 19 | It would not be the first time that it had done so . |
| 20 | I have done so with the earnest endeavour to be able to speak to that brief , but I have to start by declaring failure and announcing that the results have been negative . |
| 21 | But I had done so not in the belief that indefinite British occupation of the Zone was practicable but in protest against a treaty which purported to give Britain rights of reoccupation and a policy which proclaimed that Cyprus , Jordan and Kenya afforded adequate geographical alternatives . |
| 22 | The band will need to open a bank account , if they have n't done so already . |
| 23 | At the same time she remains ‘ isolated from the very social structure which her courage and vitality have done so much to enliven and renew ’ ( Rose , ‘ Women in Men 's Clothing ’ , 389 — 90 ) . |
| 24 | Of the convergence of homosexuality and race , fewer still are prepared to speak , and those who have spoken have oft en done so in racist and/or homophobic terms — and that , as Mercer and Julien show , includes people in both the black and gay communities . |
| 25 | The question that such analysis then suggests is : why has Labour done so badly ? |
| 26 | Once permitted and enabled ( chiefly by virtue of legal aid ) to petition for divorce , women have done so in ever-increasing numbers . |
| 27 | She had done so ; Rachel had not known how to handle it then , and still did not know ten years later . |
| 28 | It has done so much for us . |
| 29 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 30 | There were occasions when someone did a large number , and they would bring the job-sheet round and show the others and say ‘ She has done so many , you also must . ’ |