Example sentences of "so [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen .
2 Although the defendants had power to cut off the water supply for non-payment of rates they had neither done so nor threatened to do so .
3 She did n't think that it was her place to do so nor did she want to appear to be a burden to the man she loved .
4 So that told us that we had better get a full-scale defence working immediately . ’
5 Bienvida had red hair when she was born but later on it turned dark , so that told her very little .
6 We had a large factory at Bournville employing about ten thousand people and there were a great many incentive payment schemes , so that became my job .
7 Yes , so that became the the fire prevention suite , erm and erm still is the fire prevention suite , erm and is well used now again , almost bursting , I should think er with increasing staff and , and work which seems to come each year .
8 So that seemed conclusive . ’
9 So that seemed to me to be all right . ’
10 It invites the contrast to be made on the particular process , so that objectified social consciousness can be compared with non-objectified , and social representations can be contrasted with those commonsensical beliefs which are not social representations .
11 The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for .
12 Er er well the engine which should have pulled , the post train , broke down so that went to the works and the engine which took its replacement
13 So that viewed from the purl side it 's the opposite way round to the mylar sheet , while on the knit side it 's the same way round as the mylar sheet of course .
14 She could n't swim , so that left her with only two options : she could stay where she was and wait for whoever was lurking there to reach out of the darkness — but with her nature that was unthinkable — or she could run the gauntlet .
15 So that left Andrew and Karen on their own ?
16 So that added to the delight and fullness of life .
17 erm On the question of the river samples and pool samples , yes , I think one of the city pools , one of the school pools we had a bit of a problem , so that took much of concentrated attention of it for a period of two or three weeks , so that 's probably a reflection , I do n't think much of it relates to the river sample .
18 The Salvation Army worker living there was a young girl , Sharon , so that balanced the house up a bit .
19 So that got me over the turkey .
20 The only road was a quarter of a mile away up a track , leading down to the campsite itself , so that made the immediate area pretty safe .
21 ‘ She knew the lads and said they were very nice so that made it easier to audition for them . ’
22 So that made me unhappy , and in turn made Lesley unhappy , so it was n't a very good situation .
23 The Aldershot method because er it it sort of explained to me the most effect way of getting across whatever you want to say so that made me a feel a bit happier about that .
24 She says : So that made it easier for you to carry on then .
25 so that made sixty four .
26 So that cheered us up a bit as you can imagine but what really cheered us up was making contact with the Indians .
27 So that stuck and eventually when that place folded and we came over here , er we just called them the Dollies and that was , they were referred to , everybody knew who they were ,
28 So that accelerated my own ideas and I came over to England with that in mind .
29 Mills was n't gay , so that ruled out a killing of that sort .
30 All Boy could think of to explain this was that the man was older than he was , and that he actually had a husband in a sort of way , and not just for one night or a few nights , and so that had to be why he felt differently about the films he watched .
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