Example sentences of "so they [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt . |
| 2 | He complained , so they took those two pockets off us . |
| 3 | It was why his bare toes peeped out from beneath his trousers , why the trousers themselves were unsnapped at the waist so they rode low on his hips , why the beautiful musculature of his powerful shoulders and arms was so visible … |
| 4 | And apparently the one that had gone out to him had n't found him , so they sent another one and he found him straight away with his directions . |
| 5 | The cops saw me where they thought I should n't be , so they got curious . |
| 6 | ‘ Connie 's brother , ’ said Camille , ‘ has got kennels down Hackney dog track , a house twice the size of this in Chigwell and a villa in Spain , and he knows people in Walthamstow who sent all their sons to public school , so they got educated . ’ |
| 7 | came to , asked for a briefing on what we did in Estonia and then said , can we give you seventy thousand pounds so you can spend on projects in Estonia , so they got seventy thousand pounds off your Government . |
| 8 | As the fibres got thinner so they got stronger , slowly at first and then , when they got really thin , very rapidly . |
| 9 | What they wanted to provide very rarely brought expenditure close to this ceiling , so they had little problem in deciding whether the project could or could not cost-effectively support a client ( see Chapter Six for further details of the cost of care ) . |
| 10 | They needed a boost because of the Cuban crisis and this seemed to be the opportunity , so they had little choice but to enter into the quicksand of the Vietnam War . |
| 11 | We had every other Sunday off , you see , but otherwise we worked and did n't get any extra for it but of course the girls like myself well erm we could n't lift these huge urns of tea so they had two men keep them on , you see , and er , and we were er perhaps I know one day we did n't finish until five o'clock in the morning |
| 12 | My mum 's the sort of person who 'll just argue with anything , if she thinks she 'll argue with anybody , or anything if she thinks that she 's being swindled , so like , she even went to the extent of having , they , we had an extension built , right , and she , we had it , only fair 's fair , this one particular suite , we had erm , and they , they had this absolutely massive bathroom built , okay not specifically to have a nicer bathroom , but to have a very big room and erm , so they had two sinks , this sounds real extravagant , erm , |
| 13 | that er , oh course , like everywhere else , like the building of Stansted Airport or the , you know , there was people who were against , I mean the beautiful countryside spoilt by a New Town , so they had these committees and brigadier |
| 14 | It rained the whole nine days they were there , so they spent most of their time in the amusement arcades . |
| 15 | A vast circle of storm clouds hugged the ground and rose towering into the air , so they seemed becalmed on the inside edge of a massive mauve funnel through the swirling walls of which Trent could make out , to the south , a thin line of greater darkness that he knew must be the rain forest bordering the Makaa River . |
| 16 | And so they seemed obnoxious , blank and weary |
| 17 | He stopped talking to me and changed deadlines so they became impossible to meet . |
| 18 | Initially the Germans were more proficient at this than the Allies , for they kept their snipers in the same sector for long periods so they became familiar with the enemy 's trench systems there , while the Allies rotated their snipers with the units to which they belonged . |
| 19 | their throats were completely erm , full of worms , and they could n't get any more worms into those throats , so they knew these chicks were totally full , as full could be . |
| 20 | THREE police football teams were too busy tackling crime to play all their fixtures — so they invented bogus results and sent them in to the league . |
| 21 | As their sorrow increased so they grew bolder . |
| 22 | Her mother had made some scones and pies in her afternoon leisure and picked some flowers in case the child came back in need of cheering up , so they ate some supper and then went out to the headland . |
| 23 | Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money . |
| 24 | Men would all risk their lives , so they made some sharp knives , to stick out of the wheels to make sure . |
| 25 | ‘ So they went both of them together . ’ |
| 26 | Well , that 's not how schoolboys talk , so they sneered some more and waited for Oliver to challenge them to a formal fight . |
| 27 | From a wealth of evidence the author shows that as powerful , influential and educated Germans embraced the values and beliefs of the Enlightenment , so they gave growing moral , material and manpower support to chemistry . |
| 28 | Then of course not one would enter the gangway to go into the steamer , so they caught one and forced it through , then all the rest followed quite eagerly of their own accord . |
| 29 | I slept on the bed with them but they kept falling out , so they bought another bed , for themselves . |
| 30 | and they did n't want to be scattered all over the earth so they built this er , he wanted to make , to make a name for themselves did n't they ? |