Example sentences of "so they [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 2 | they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house |
| 3 | I said I wanted him to go to an outside hospital , so they took him . |
| 4 | They felt he was bored so they took him to training classes and Tricia said he 's an absolute natural . |
| 5 | she says er I 'm er guaranteed , she says oh no you 're not , she says Ruth 's told me last week to take you off guarantee , so they took her off like |
| 6 | Apparently I 'd chosen to pee up against a police station , so they took me inside , and told me off , and of course I apologized . |
| 7 | Ten teams took part in the first race in 1975 , and they all enjoyed themselves so they thought they would do it again the following year . |
| 8 | Yes , Lord Stradbroke went up there ; and they thought the pub had become unruly , so they thought they 'd better close it . |
| 9 | They had never seen me so they thought I was white . |
| 10 | I had a notepad and I wrote poems on it when he was talking , so they thought I was taking letters . |
| 11 | ‘ The whole House thing was happening then , so they thought it would be a good idea to send us to Chicago , ’ says Eric . |
| 12 | anyway they were needed beds , so they sent her home , and er , you know er see that stuff that come away , you see there were still some stuff left to come away |
| 13 | I did n't know what career I wanted which baffled the system so they sent me to Edinburgh for a year . |
| 14 | She would n't know how to use a real weapon ( fnar fnar ) , so they sent me a to sharpen my axe on this month 's adventure offerings . |
| 15 | Our own lads were getting killed in Russia , so they sent us Belgians to play with their widows . |
| 16 | at one time so they sent us |
| 17 | ‘ Well , perhaps the children 's home did n't have any boys , so they sent you a girl , ’ answered the station-master carelessly . |
| 18 | Aidan was a better authority on women than any of the rest of them so they followed him willingly . |
| 19 | He hung onto me and started crying , so they said they would only take Antonio to make a statement . |
| 20 | But it was so costly so they said they 'd get a second hand one . |
| 21 | he had , he had a definite attitude problem so they said they would relieve him of his contract oh that 's fair enough , they 're paying you good money and they expect you to work hard and that 's it but we finish at one o'clock next term |
| 22 | she can move them but she 's got no use in them , so they said it 'll take a long time |
| 23 | Kelly Johnson had just left and so they asked me to join . |
| 24 | These people here are very over-careful you know , they just like to cover every eventuality so they asked us all to ring our families even though there is n't a thing wrong … . ’ |
| 25 | There was going to be a riot so they brought her up . |
| 26 | It 's not that bad , it 's just that red and green are fairly important colours to people who try to wave down planes and things like that , so they told me that being a pilot was definitely out . |
| 27 | She said , no you write and he 'll , she 'll write back , you see but , and he went out to France and he was killed in three months and and his name , so they told me was on the er , on the board at er . |
| 28 | on your interview she said I want you tell us because at the end of the , your interview she said , it 'll help us to do the others , so they told us , giving me different situations , she 's took a patient out to a cafe and the patient pinched a cake and eaten it , what would you do ? |
| 29 | We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it was n't our room as we like took this guy in it was like books , everything was , there was so much crap on the floor , we had to get through to get to the radiator so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking . |
| 30 | They were n't too pleased about it , so they kicked her out the house I think . |