Example sentences of "so [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had a death in the family which I could understand , so I lent you a book , which you have n't returned . |
| 2 | He wanted work and to pay for the damage so I offered him a job . ’ |
| 3 | I asked her where she lived and she said Tower Hamlets , so I offered her a lift in the van . |
| 4 | After drawing a blank on Rhodes , I had to write something that justified my travelling expenses , so I made you the villain of the piece . |
| 5 | After he left it occurred to me that Harrington and Lewis might also find my effort useful , so I took them a copy . |
| 6 | All the same , heavy coughing always meant the possibility of water on the lungs which in turn could lead to pneumonia , so I gave her an injection of vitamin K , to thicken the blood , a sleeping pill , some linctus which contained a tiny amount of morphine , and also told her , ‘ Take one of these pills every morning for a week . ’ |
| 7 | I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow . |
| 8 | ‘ So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’ |
| 9 | He kept stealing Nigel 's food , so I gave him a bowl of his own every day . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well he needed a refill so I gave him a hand to push his hand cart into Berkeley last night . |
| 11 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 12 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 13 | She could have tried for goal , but Mike had an easier shot so she gave him a lightning , nearside , under-the-neck pass . |
| 14 | ‘ So you gave him the key . |
| 15 | Mrs Thatcher cares about the environment so we sent her a letter too . |
| 16 | Could n't find a size large enough for Hurley so we got him a nightshirt instead . |
| 17 | Room maids also suggested improving the honeymoon suite , so we gave them a project to look at suitable fabrics and rival hotel suites . |
| 18 | Er champion of champions we 've , I bought some prizes for the champion of champions , and food er just to go with the trophies er Keith again was our judge and erm knowing that he does n't willingly accept money , he wants to come and do it for nothing erm how many proposed that we buy him something a bottle to take with him , so we bought him a bottle of wine to take with him and er that was the three pound . |
| 19 | Oh Jenny is terrible , Sue and I decided were go to see her today because we had a message that she was in hospital , so we bought her a plant and we were on our way to see today |
| 20 | He looked like a wild thing so we called him the Yeti . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , perhaps the children 's home did n't have any boys , so they sent you a girl , ’ answered the station-master carelessly . |
| 22 | Some of the things he said made no sense so they gave him a crack across the head and took him away . |
| 23 | Of course they did n't get the portable with this , they rang them up , said where 's my colour portable said I 'll put you on to the manager anyway they had some deal that night that erm to launch this Mini Mayfair or whatever it was wine and cheese thing so he went to the wine and cheese thing and worried he was gon na kick up a fuss so they gave him a telly anyway . |
| 24 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
| 25 | Back on the recovery ship , they opened the hatch and there was Ham with his arms crossed , looking gloriously bored by the whole episode , so they gave him an apple ! |
| 26 | IMC could , but there was no legal way to transfer information — so they gave me a virus and I implanted it into the starsuits . |
| 27 | Anyway , so they gave us a bottle of wine . |
| 28 | She declined There was something else she needed from the van so he gave her the keys . |
| 29 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
| 30 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |