Example sentences of "[conj] so i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was worth doing , or so I thought at the time . |
| 2 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 3 | She was a real beauty , or so I thought at the time . |
| 4 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 5 | And so I wake in the night panic stricken over a lack of fuel . |
| 6 | An evening thunderstorm suggested that the situation would not be CAVOK , and so I struggled with the telephone . |
| 7 | When I first went to work , I went and joined the union , there was n't one in the factory I was working in and so I went to the nearest er trade union office and joined . |
| 8 | And so I waited for the darkness of the Tongan night to lift , my fingers tightly crossed . |
| 9 | And so I ran to the forge to fetch him . |
| 10 | Oh I know , he said erm , let me see , oh he says , er like that , if it was a narrow road er you er pretty well covered the road and I looked , I said , covered the road , I said I know I 'm big , but not that big a and of course everybody , the magistrates on the bench and everybody laughed , you see and there were newspaper reporters sitting down there writing all this down , you see and so I said to the sergeant , I said , would you be kind enough to send me a newspaper to er tonight and he to I am not sure if I can oh yes I think I did . |
| 11 | ‘ And so I broke into the palace , with a sponge and a rusty spanner . |
| 12 | But so I sat in the Barbican up up at the around at the same level as the Royal Festival . |