Example sentences of "so i [vb past] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a tentative bite and then started howling again , so I had to open a tin of Whiskas — turkey flavour , full price . |
| 2 | ‘ In the end I ran out of material so I had to use a sketch devised by my son ! |
| 3 | It was only a four-seater plane , though , and in the end there was n't enough room for me , so I had to take a bus from Birmingham up to Dundee . |
| 4 | When I got back I found the office was n't open until the next day , so I had to get a driver to break in for me . |
| 5 | EQ'ing helps , but I found that over-correction would affect the lead channel , which shares the same tone circuitry , so I had to accept a compromise for my crunch sound . |
| 6 | Yet somehow Edward must be appeased , so I sought to make a virtue of my ignorance , asking questions that would allow him to air his greater experience . |
| 7 | Anyway , one day me and my mates were all going to a party so I decided to do a home perm . |
| 8 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 9 | That was a bit embarrassing — I 'd never seen him blush before — so I decided to have a joke . |
| 10 | ‘ So I decided to have a haircut . |
| 11 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all . |
| 12 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
| 13 | " Oh , it was agreed earlier that Mr Gerard would only need one of us to assist after the coffee was served , so I pretended to have a headache . " |