Example sentences of "so [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durkheim saw the centrality of the prison as largely brought about by the operation of the first part of his first law : prison was a milder penalty than capital and corporal punishments and so became adopted as collective sentiments became more sympathetic to the criminal 's suffering . |
| 2 | He could n't get an immediate break-down of where the money had gone so asked to see the manager . |
| 3 | So got to continue on there on behaviours recognize people that you see around about recognize to be aggressive , some as assertive some as passive . |
| 4 | So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass . |
| 5 | She encouraged the rich to take holidays within Iran , so tried to foster a sense of Iranian culture and a national pride among a people notoriously liable to succumb to self-pity and paranoia . |
| 6 | Like the others he failed from the Centurion corner , so tried to gain entry from the right . |
| 7 | Or perhaps , in the old days , people were even more scared of death than we are , so tried to appear friendly towards it , as a woman might try to appear friendly to a rapist in the hope — |
| 8 | At first the party leaders resisted such demands as being likely to destroy the party truce and so tried to avoid the public discussion of . |
| 9 | For although Red Rum went on to win two more Grand Nationals in 1974 and 1977 ( and to finish second in the intervening years of 1975 and 1976 ) , and although Crisp beat Red Rum easily the next time they met , there has never been a big race which a beaten horse so deserved to win . |
| 10 | Well , so United won one nil , so did Witney , that was in the Beezer Homes League southern division . |
| 11 | The anniversaries , called ‘ birthdays ’ , of the martyrs were carefully remembered , and so came to create the earliest church calendars ( so that the historian can know on what day of what month a martyr died , but not necessarily in what year , that being of no liturgical significance ) . |
| 12 | So came to do the other side , went to the same routine the nipple snapped off . |
| 13 | He realized the delicacy of the balance , and so hated to make team changes . |
| 14 | We were all hungry , so began to search our rucksacks for food which did not require to be cooked . |
| 15 | The Commission found that it could no longer find any Poles or Kaszubians who were willing to sell their land , and so began to turn to the purchase and resale of Junker estates . |
| 16 | The company needed workers , and so began building small terraces of houses for its labourers to live in . |
| 17 | The origin of these substances did not suggest that they would have magical or mystical properties , and so began to dispel ideas that psychotropic drugs had any metaphysical significance . |
| 18 | But let me return to the question that is of genuine interest , this question we so enjoyed debating when our evenings were not spoilt by chatter from those who lacked any fundamental understanding of the profession ; that is to say , the question ‘ what is a great butler ’ ? |
| 19 | We so enjoyed having friends to stay and got to know them so much better than in London . |
| 20 | They must have felt the need for a farmer 's almanac and so started to keep a tally of days , which they recorded with special symbols . |
| 21 | I am glad you came — really — and bless you for the things — I so needed to see you . |
| 22 | Finally , the unforgettable Stan Reynolds , a player who so loved scoring goals that he would attempt to do so in whichever net was nearest . |
| 23 | But to do so meant passing through Fen 's cabin , and she 'd tried that once before and been caught out . |
| 24 | Erm the er desire that I twelve conveys to encourage district councils to make special provision in their you know to emphasize high density employment in their city centres is understood , no quarrel with that , but if you ca n't , if you feel unable er at county level to be absolutely explicit , that a district would be free if it so chose , it might not choose to do so , if it so chose to make I twelve decisions that did n't come out of its I five , er they would n't have to come out of its I five allocations , unless you can be clear that they 're free to do that , erm it suggests to me sir that may be it 's I twelve that 's that 's getting in the way , erm and w that might well be something we can do without . |
| 25 | He saw two of the women under the mini being tended to , so went to help one who was screaming out loudly obviously in a lot of pain . |
| 26 | No it does all over the place , wherever put newspaper down , he does it on the carpet so kept doing it by the cooker so we put newspaper down there , and put the toys away , see they was in the way you see , put newspaper down there and then next would n't have that , . |
| 27 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 28 | In the 80s , shares reached record heights and so did skirt lengths . |
| 29 | On the other hand , in 1966 when manufacturing employment turned down , so did total employment . |
| 30 | So did put his gun in his holster ? |