Example sentences of "so it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's like your dad were , were n't it , but he 's , he had a hole in his back , so it ran up , and it used to fill up and it , every so often it would burst out would n't it |
| 2 | So it came as something of a shock to Labour 's Brian Wilson when he found that a Commons motion he had tabled had been … well , subbed a bit by the authorities of the House . |
| 3 | And so it came about that while the Operational Staffs of the three Service Ministries were grappling with the Suez crisis of 1956 , which entailed increasing the Defence effort and calling up reservists to fill gaps in the order of battle for the contingency plan Musketeer , they were answering questions posed by the Hull Committee about the implications of halving Service manpower by April 1960 or 1961 at the very latest ! |
| 4 | ‘ So wonderfully pleased and satisfied ’ was he with it that , as Molyneux wrote to Locke , ‘ he has ordered it to be read by the Batchelors in the College , and strictly examines them in their progress therein ’ ; and so it came about that Locke 's masterpiece was on the curriculum which faced George Berkeley , the subject of the next chapter , when he entered Trinity as a student in 1700 . |
| 5 | And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her . |
| 6 | ‘ And so it came about that all over the land children were assembled in groups of 40 and made to learn the facts set out in the books written by Messrs Hall & Stevens , Warner & Martin , Durrell & Palmer , and Potter and Ridout . |
| 7 | And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement . |
| 8 | And so it came to pass . |
| 9 | ‘ Although Steven said he 'd heard arguing , I never had so it came as a complete shock . ’ |
| 10 | So it came as no surprise that the first chants of ‘ Flashman out ’ were heard just two minutes into a contest in which the long ball was essential in atrocious conditions . |
| 11 | And so it came to pass that on Friday 24 April , at 11am our time , 94 ladies and gentleman of the British press are gathered at Stansted Airport inside a privately chartered plane whose previous occupants were Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party election campaign team . |
| 12 | so it came as no surprise when Audrey Roberts decided that enough was enough and stormed out , leaving Alf puzzled and in the lurch . |
| 13 | And so it came to pass , that they escaped all safe to land . |
| 14 | And so it came to pass that on the third day we journeyed to Gstaad and skied . |
| 15 | So it came out to be impossible to d to drive on paving , that . |
| 16 | So it came in and it went round |
| 17 | As they climbed so the flak followed them ; as they dived so it came down to harry them . |
| 18 | So it came to pass . |
| 19 | So it came to pass that somewhere , possibly among the lofty pastures of the mountain herdsmen of Mesopotamia , a better breed of beer was born . |
| 20 | So it came about that there was a vacancy for a rigger in No 70 Squadron , Hinaidi , and off to the Canal Zone , Egypt , I sped to learn to fly . |
| 21 | erm the buyer 's guide and the business card erm yes it is a legal requirement but I mean , you know , do n't hammer the fact , this is a legal , I 've got ta give it to you , okay so it came across in that particular vein . |
| 22 | So if you kept C R fixed and you happened to fiddle them so it came to one , you could just You You 're working out your graph you see you see then . |
| 23 | So it came out well . |
| 24 | So it came out of a budget when we were all ratepayers , it did n't come out of poll tax payers ' budgets okay ? |
| 25 | Once when I was looking out the back of the palace and shots around the back and a shell hit the palace , so it came in my eyes and it hit |
| 26 | And so it went : a nice enough American bewailing the passing of London as he wanted it to be . |
| 27 | And so it went on . |
| 28 | So it went to the National Gallery . |
| 29 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 30 | Perhaps he had a friend of like rare quality … and so it went on . |