Example sentences of "so [verb] i " in BNC.

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1 He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand .
2 So round I went to Daddy 's flat . ’
3 This is another aspect of my work with film that has so fascinated me : the physiognomy of a great orchestra when the players are really concentrating , really absorbed in the process of music-making .
4 Already , after a few months ' acquaintance , he complained to Harry of ‘ this hideous analysis which so masters me ’ and he tried to express Helen 's profound effect upon him : ‘ I always wonder when I look at her or think of her .
5 No doubt my readers will have bigger and better examples of the persistence of facies which so fascinates me in this chapter , but I write as far as possible from my own experience .
6 Even Wilbye did not disdain specific Italian models ; his ‘ Lady , your words do spite me ’ takes off from Ferrabosco 's ‘ Donna se voi m'odiate ’ which had appeared in Musica Transalpina as ‘ Lady , if you so spite me ’ : and once more the English monosyllables leave their stamp on the music .
7 ‘ He said something that made the implication that I 'd copied and I was sort of so choked I did n't answer .
8 So send me to Sing-Sing …
9 I think this is tosh myself , but it 's really up to first ascensionists , so send me details if you wish .
10 This has probably been done before but I 'm new to the list so forgive me .
11 This has probably been done before but I 'm new to the list so forgive me .
12 The mail will probably take a couple of days longer to reach you from Sian , & no doubt we 'll be very busy when we get there , so forgive me if you do n't hear from me for a little while .
13 Little Maureen , whose face so disturbed me , fair , freckled , abjectly Nordic , the mouth too big or just too external , designed to express only powerlessness .
14 ‘ Then I 'm going to The Casbah , so expect me to be late . ’
15 so touch me with the memories you 've made
16 Dusk was falling swiftly , as it always does in the tropics , and the silence that had so impressed me by daylight suddenly became noisy with the night life of the jungly-type trees in the mountains behind-the bull frogs , strange bird cries , the never-ending background of the cicadas .
17 He even managed to do some work in front of the Greek television cameras , so enabling me to make the Central Television programme ‘ At Home with Costakis in Athens ’ .
18 Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark .
19 So listen I wan er er so is there any snow out there at all anywhere ?
20 Sure Ji he came in looking for Jim one morning and Jim was n't there , says he 's in bed so listen I said do you wan na go up and waken him like fuck Jim says when Acky woke me I said what you mean he give you a kiss and he woke you up .
21 But somebody so told me aye and I said that was a funny name or was it else 's then .
22 I do n't think a person told I do n't think a person told to apologize is n't rea really an apology so I think there must be a reason why you did n't and so told me on Sunday why you did n't .
23 Well perhaps , perhaps the so and so , so told me .
24 next week so catch me if you want anything .
25 The fact that I had not done so put me too high for the first available field , but with insufficient height for the next one .
26 Then they decided perhaps I did n't have to stay in that one after all , so put me into another single cell , which was equally disgusting .
27 So put me right , my dear , since you keep insisting I 'm mistaken .
28 Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child .
29 Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on .
30 I 'm as open minded and honest about my dogs as any dog owner , so let me tell you that I have the most beautiful , most gentle , most serious and most feminine Golden Retriever that ever lived .
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