Example sentences of "so i [verb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham . |
| 2 | Although we are now debating a piece of works legislation , it represents a major reform of parliamentary procedure , so I put down a marker at this stage to the effect that the Minister should be more forthcoming in considering whether we should have new procedures for dealing with orders . |
| 3 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 4 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 5 | ‘ He suggested it could have died another way , ’ Small recalls , ‘ so I took out a knife , skinned it on his desk , and showed him where the fox 's teeth had punctured the flesh . ’ |
| 6 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 7 | I had my trumpet case on my knee and half a carriage to myself , so I pulled out a paperback of Gore Vidal 's latest Essays and read the one where he thinks he gets confused with Anthony Burgess . |
| 8 | I must do something , I thought , so I rang up a friend of mine called David Woolcock . |
| 9 | But here I was stuck back on the dole with a Fostex 250 , a guitar , a microphone and a drum machine , so I worked out a way of getting up to about eleven tracks on the Portastudio by constantly bouncing to and fro . |
| 10 | I hate Heathcliff too , but I could not agree to murder , so I called out a warning from the kitchen window . |