Example sentences of "so [adv] it [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 So eventually it stepped in and moved to buy Unix System Laboratories Inc .
2 So eventually it stepped in and bought Unix System Labs .
3 Er we 're limited with people and while Brian was in the verge of moving it which the electrics all had to be took out and rerun , he got called away , down to the pre-packs to a breakdown so obviously it did n't get done , the job stopped cos there 's nobody else .
4 It had always seemed such an impossible dream , but with Louise talking about it so matter-of-factly it seemed almost a fait accompli .
5 ‘ I do n't think so , ’ she said , but she expressed the truth so artfully it sounded almost as if there was a possibility .
6 My dog was run over by one of them ; the bus was going so fast it did n't even stop .
7 And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get .
8 So then it went on from there to Canada so it just worked out or appeared to work out that right around the world at that particular time ten or eleven years ago , that nobody was bothered and as you said the Beautiful Dreamers and this sort of stuff until we came along and er but other than that we would be surprised .
9 So then it started over . ’
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