Example sentences of "so [adv] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had a bust-up in the late fifties when he beat her up so badly he was sent to jail . ’ |
| 2 | He made me slightly tiddly on champagne so perhaps he was trying to seduce me . |
| 3 | So somehow it was reassuring to find he had a sore throat when I saw him last Thursday . |
| 4 | An hour or so later I was beginning to feel proud of our levels of determination and achievement as we topped out over the last sand dune , then my heart sank into my boots ! |
| 5 | At this vow , which he had repeated to her so often it was beginning to sound like a mantra , Ashley frowned . |
| 6 | He said it so often I was beginning to expect it , listen for it . |
| 7 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 8 | So there we were trying to fish out a bunch of keys from a three-foot pit full of human urine and excrement . |
| 9 | When I asked Dad he mumbled something about entertaining so maybe he was planning to turn it into a theatre or something . |
| 10 | It seems they had two er registers really , one register meant that you were a part of the movement , the other register I imagine meaning you were actually an enemy of this movement so if you got on that register you , you were in , that that would er spell very bad news , so consequently you were trying to join the , the , the first association . |
| 11 | Erm , first the district did it and erm they did n't want it so then it was decided to have , to share it with county and that was a disaster too and they did so many cuts each a year and then county took it over . |
| 12 | The post was much too risky , so sometimes I was asked to carry funds to Parma on my bicycle . |