Example sentences of "so [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benson was a large , calm man in his early sixties , grey of hair , cherubic and cheerful of countenance , and wearing a sports jacket , flannels and polo jersey , all of varying shades of grey and all so lived in , comfortable and crumpled that he could well have inherited them from his grandfather . |
| 2 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 3 | The South Africans claimed that between 600 and 800 SWAPO guerrillas had crossed from Angola into Ovamboland , their party 's home ground ; during the following three days , they said , another 500 or so came over . |
| 4 | Computer expert , Andrew Eccleston , explains that they were fed up with old-fashioned forecasting methods , so came up with something new . |
| 5 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 6 | Erm I suppose what we ought to focus on , is not so much the details of the ethnography so came up from the study , but erm but some of them are almost thieves |
| 7 | The kitten lived to be nine , so came out of the whole business best , I suppose . |
| 8 | He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’ |
| 9 | So woke up and Will 's now gon na show off for you , right we 'll see you soon |
| 10 | And I , and he said to me oh you 're so paranoid Catriona , you always wear your tracksuit bums , you know , you 're so stupid to get so worked up about it . |
| 11 | ‘ Thanks for keeping us so clued in , ’ he snaps . |
| 12 | He seemed so attentive , so clued in to my every word , that I suddenly found the confidence to go on . |
| 13 | He carried on flying , looking for a place to land and so flew back to the wireless station and decided to land in a field next to it . |
| 14 | After a quick glance I was delighted to see that my arm was still there , so went off to sleep again , feeling very cheerful about the whole thing . |
| 15 | I decided doubles was getting short-shrifted so went off on that tangent . |
| 16 | As he rounded the leeward mark for the first time , Pat Marshall in 9th place found himself being covered by Simon Allen and so went off on the opposite tack to get clear of the dirty wind , followed by Chris Eyre . |
| 17 | A week or so went by and I had n't received a reply . |
| 18 | Ten more minutes or so went by until she was ready for the net , one scoop followed by some frantic throwing in of excess tail which did n't want to go into the net and she was ours . |
| 19 | At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’ |
| 20 | This tim however we was unable to mustard owr yewshul gravel and detriment and so went out thre30 — . |
| 21 | Was it Monday , no it was yesterday , I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they 've got one of my club catalogues , I did n't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee , I thought what the devil 's he got , so went out , Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and , Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the , the , garage thing that I 've brought so I thought well now it 's out , well they 're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say , I said he 's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er , what 's Father Christmas gon na say ? , no Ben forget , so I thought while they 're out I could see Joseph 's playing a lot , way with this bus thing , he was having a whale of a time , he thought that was great , so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus ? |
| 22 | So went out and I was feeling really tired but I thought well I just been getting up very early in the mornings so |
| 23 | I took thirteen and I 've got some of me old Diodide so went back on to them . |
| 24 | I was cold and stiff , so went back to my chamber to warm myself . |
| 25 | I was , as usual , appallingly nervous , so went back during the lunch hour to practise . |
| 26 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 27 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 28 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |
| 29 | ROS : Madam , it so fell out that certain players We o'erraught on the way : of these we told him And there did seem in him a kind of joy To hear of it . |
| 30 | Aston Forbes has got the staff so riled up they 've walked out ! ’ |