Example sentences of "so [adv] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So eventually you 're going to have to sit down with us and tell us how much you want . |
| 2 | ‘ Had a bust-up in the late fifties when he beat her up so badly he was sent to jail . ’ |
| 3 | Also what struck me was now that they they 're not fighting the Japanese erm they 're not required to make the sacrifices of war that they were so perhaps they 're going to think right let's see what we can make out of this , I do n't , I no longer have to pay X tax because |
| 4 | He made me slightly tiddly on champagne so perhaps he was trying to seduce me . |
| 5 | So obviously we are looking to get the points for the first time . |
| 6 | So somehow it was reassuring to find he had a sore throat when I saw him last Thursday . |
| 7 | So hopefully he 's going to burst West Ham 's pretty bubbles ? |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | So now we 're having to charge for more of our services . |
| 10 | " So now you 're going to have what might well prove to be a boy , very likely is from the way you 're growing . |
| 11 | And so now I am going to tell you . |
| 12 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |
| 13 | My feet had grown and the man said my shoes were too small so now I 'm going to wear my sandals all the time . |
| 14 | So now I 'm going to tell you . |
| 15 | We can study files for decades , but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely another literary genre : the past is autobiographical fiction pretending to be a parliamentary report . |
| 16 | At this vow , which he had repeated to her so often it was beginning to sound like a mantra , Ashley frowned . |
| 17 | He said it so often I was beginning to expect it , listen for it . |
| 18 | So today I 'm going to talk about notions of structure or about sentence structure and logical form , so point one a reminder something that I keep saying , knowledge of language is knowledge of a bod a body of rules that assign phonological , syntactic and semantic properties to words and sentences . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So there we are trying to fish out a bunch of keys from a three-foot pit full of human urine and excrement . |
| 21 | So there we were trying to fish out a bunch of keys from a three-foot pit full of human urine and excrement . |
| 22 | When I asked Dad he mumbled something about entertaining so maybe he was planning to turn it into a theatre or something . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The post was much too risky , so sometimes I was asked to carry funds to Parma on my bicycle . |
| 26 | So again we 're going to come back to several themes in a fairly repetitive way , and we — do n't forgive us for this if you do n't like it , but we 're certainly going to talk about certain things again and again and again , but what it really comes down to , is ‘ Learn what the media 's all about , learn what they want , learn what you can provide , see whether you can match this , in a sense , and see whether you can make it work to your advantage ’ . |