Example sentences of "so [adv] [pron] was [verb] " 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 | Colin bought enough to last the house about two hundred years , even if his son had continued using it , so perhaps he was thinking of selling it . |
| 4 | Except that she had n't dreamt about Tony for the past three nights , so perhaps he was doing some good . |
| 5 | Parents had been killed in the Hamburg bombing , so perhaps she was feeling lonely . |
| 6 | ‘ So obviously I was thinking along the same lines as him . |
| 7 | So basically she was looking for a job . |
| 8 | So naturally I was going into . |
| 9 | Mr Lucas said Michael worked for Bond Corporation for around five years and was trusted so greatly he was given responsibility for the security of international VIPs who visited Western Australia during Bond 's America 's Cup defence three years ago . |
| 10 | So somehow it was reassuring to find he had a sore throat when I saw him last Thursday . |
| 11 | Dalesfolk around the first half of the century tended to marry within their close community , so nearly everyone was related to nearly everyone else . |
| 12 | A second or so later she was giving herself a mental shake and opening her eyes again . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | He 'd been a bit scared of her before , but he was even more so now she was acting as if she was n't right in the head . |
| 15 | So now she was having a splendid time visiting friends , and who could blame her ? |
| 16 | So now I was becoming desperate , so I tried an osteopath and was able to get a little relief from minor repositioning of the discs . |
| 17 | At this vow , which he had repeated to her so often it was beginning to sound like a mantra , Ashley frowned . |
| 18 | He said it so often I was beginning to expect it , listen for it . |
| 19 | So here she was sitting beside me on the window-seat , shut in between a heavy curtain and a window . |
| 20 | I had also discovered that I had not put in with the ‘ essential documents ’ a vital letter — the one which contained Kathy and Len 's address , so here I was arriving in Perth , knowing nobody and without an address to go to ! |
| 21 | The question popped up so regularly I was getting used to it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So there I was lying in bed as the Mafias slowly closed in on me . |
| 24 | So maybe it was fitting that it should begin here , at Nanking , where DeVore had first slipped the net . |
| 25 | When I asked Dad he mumbled something about entertaining so maybe he was planning to turn it into a theatre or something . |
| 26 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 27 | Ruth leaned back in her seat and clutched her hands in her lap , so tightly she was hurting herself . |
| 28 | Without any warning , Volkov braked so hard she was thrown forward against her seatbelt . |
| 29 | So then she was asking me you know , what I 'd bought . |
| 30 | 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 . |