Example sentences of "so [noun prp] [was/were] " in BNC.

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31 So Robert was whipped , .
32 So ITV was ‘ commercial ’ ; but was it ‘ independent ’ ?
33 So Ted was Dad 's triumph ; he really was someone Dad had freed .
34 well I do n't know how they work it , but I should n't get a bad one , it should be okay , I mean my dad 's gon na give me money anyway , so , I mean if I , London City so Phil was saying one of the best in the country he says that , so hopefully if they , they give me an offer , the others should as well
35 So Mickey was n't asked .
36 So Ange was saying she 's , she gets a bit funny do n't she ?
37 As Saturday in the Leeds of 1913 was a day of football — association or rugby — so Sunday was a day of religious devotion .
38 So Kalmu was launched on a highly successful career as a shamanistic seer and miracle-worker which enabled him to acquire both wealth and power and hence to compensate very effectively for the severe disabilities under which he laboured on account of his low caste origins .
39 The famous film director from France could speak no English , and so Miranda was being sent to do the interview as well as provide the paper 's weekly caricature ; she had the address of the location , a newsagent 's in the High Street of a part of the city she had never heard mentioned before , Giblett Park , though she had lived in London most of her life ; the Press Office had said that he would give her ten minutes between takes , or more if she were lucky and the filming was going well and Jean-Claude Meursault was feeling mellow .
40 Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved
41 So Trudy was taken home and that was the end of Cedric 's career as a stud dog .
42 So October was now devoted to preserving this munificence .
43 And so Oliver was left with only the drunken nurse .
44 So Rudd was appointed team manager and chief engineer for the season .
45 So Mrs was showing you how to do this ?
46 So Tonks was able to rest easy that no South Africans would play at Treviso .
47 So Anna was taken to her new home , where she was well cared for , and her new owner tried patiently to handle and groom her .
48 So Pip was what everybody called me .
49 So Simone was attracted to Piers .
50 So Tyrion was made ready for battle .
51 So Gabriel was responsible for both the important farms in the area , while their owners sat alone in their lonely farmhouses .
52 Boadicea , on her shining chariot with scythes on the wheels , razed all the Roman settlements in her path , and so Durobrivae was obliterated .
53 So Gustave was a six-foot giant , and the world shrinks just a little with that knowledge .
54 Went in there and went and got dressed so Mary was up then so when I got back downstairs the er breakfast , my breakfast was on the table .
55 So Schwarz was left alone as almost the only supporter of string theory , but now with the much higher proposed value of the string tension .
56 There was only a large crater where the wool shop had stood so Maureen was free to stay with her mother and Anne went to work on Monday .
57 Oh I du n no you 'll have to talk to Ian , she said I 've been working Les done , er Les , Les told me eleven till three , it was half past eleven till three and er , so Bev was alright
58 So Leonard was given his secular names ( Leonard Norman ) at the Sabbath on which his mother first attended synagogue , and his Hebrew name , Elieser ( ‘ God is my help ’ ) at the circumcision-ceremony itself .
59 So Leonard was called by name from among the congregation , arose and ascended the steps , stepped on to the special box placed for short candidates like himself , and recited in Hebrew the traditional blessing before the reading of the Torah :
60 So Hutchinson was in : he would trump him .
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