Example sentences of "so [pron] [vb past] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 2 | It rang while Elizabeth was in the field and I picked it up and someone spoke to me , but I can not speak , so I tore it from the wall and then no one could speak to me . ) |
| 3 | ‘ Your tea is ruined so I threw it in the bin . |
| 4 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 5 | The sister was n't in her office when she went back , so she left it in the middle of the desk : ‘ Miss Carolyn Tanner , care of Clare ’ . |
| 6 | You could n't face the thought of a handicapped wife so you hightailed it off the scene and out of her life . |
| 7 | ‘ So we kept it in the family , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Frankie warned me he was comin' down the street so we wheeled it into the pantry until he 'd gone . |
| 9 | The standard way to do this journey is by changing at Chester , but I am never averse to a trip on my favourite line , the Cambrian Coast , so we did it via the Ffestiniog and the Conway Valley line . |
| 10 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 11 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 12 | Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime . |
| 13 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 14 | And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ? |
| 15 | The bronze statue of Boadicea , in her chariot , which can be seen on the Thames Embankment at Westminster Bridge , is the work of Hamo Thornycroft , R.A. , who had a studio in Holland Park , but it proved too small , so he removed it to the ‘ tin tabernacle ’ which Sir John Isaac Thornycroft , F.R.S. , had built as a workshop in the gardens of Walpole House on Chiswick Mall , during the last decade of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 17 | But as all the figures were multiplied by a factor of ten , the area was too great to be enclosed in the Mediterranean , so he placed it in the Atlantic ; and the date was put back into remote antiquity , thousands of years too early . |