Example sentences of "so he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he helps a hell of a lot . |
| 2 | So he went home and he out about two weeks got fed up , you know , like that man you know , doing nothing so he had a scooter that needed repairing he died as he repaired the scooter ! |
| 3 | So he had a go at making some grown-up movies , such as The Color Purple and Always — films dealing with heavy subjects such as relationships , conflict and bereavement . |
| 4 | So he sent a telegram to his wife saying : ‘ Am in Market Harborough — where ought I to be ? ’ and she , being a practical woman , sent a terse telegram with one word : ‘ Home ’ . |
| 5 | So he hired a lorry , bribed the demolition men to let him cart away the finest doorcases , moulded corner cupboards , cornices and chimney pieces and stored them in a London County Council Historic Buildings warehouse at his own expense . |
| 6 | There are one or two old professors here left over from before the liberation ( apparently no profs have been appointed since ) and the professor of English , Prof. Chen Jia , is a charming though deaf old fellow who studied in the U.S.A. , and who used to write books on English literature before the Cultural Revolution put a stop to all that sort of thing — but even so he quoted a bit of Chaucer to me surreptitiously at the dinner table . |
| 7 | A frank talk was a help , but it was no substitute for knowing what it was like to have to milk cows at the crack of dawn every morning or mend fences , or battle with the elements , and so he began a series of annual stays on Duchy farms . |
| 8 | So he arranged a job as a sewing teacher at the school for her . |
| 9 | When asked to show what it was he offered a bottle opener , but Miss Sherwin said as he did so he dropped a polythene bag containing 12 LSD tabs and a small amount of cannabis resin . |
| 10 | So he dropped a metal pallet on purpose and course , it makes a hell of a row ! |
| 11 | So he asked a variety of advisers about his options . |
| 12 | As his family began to grow , money was hard to come by so he became a clerk for his family and John cannily gave dressmaking work to his new daughter-in-law to help them survive whilst getting good value for money for himself . |
| 13 | Marx tries to get away from the idea of private property when discussing pre-capitalist social systems by using the phrase ‘ appropriation of nature ’ but in doing so he uses a word with the same root as ‘ property ’ . |
| 14 | So he made a man , tall and strong like father , to take care of the plants and animals . |
| 15 | So he made a go of permanently avoiding the issue . |
| 16 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 17 | And so he made a gesture as if to say , It 's all yours . |
| 18 | So he made a habit of it , Loretta thought to herself . |
| 19 | So he made a cup of coffee ( realising , sensibly for once , that he 'd had enough alcohol ) , and sat down in the low upholstered chair with wooden arms that was one of the room 's few comforts . |
| 20 | So he took a stroll down to the City Hospital , dressed up in a white overall , walked into the room and finished off Mahoney . |
| 21 | So he used a verse of Isaiah |
| 22 | So he has a drink , talks to the barman , starts dancing and has a good time all at the ‘ club ’ . |
| 23 | So he has a problem basically about calling beauty itself beautiful . |
| 24 | So he did a lot of that , for nothing . |
| 25 | So he wants a printer which gives quality results , is easy to use , — and can be relied upon . |
| 26 | So he put a curse on the house . |
| 27 | He became impatient with the pace of work there , and moreover felt that gas warfare was unlikely to be used , and so he obtained a post as a superintendent of explosives research at the Armament Research Department in 1942 . |
| 28 | . So he needs a fitter desperately . |
| 29 | So he created a smokescreen , making the excuse that he did n't think Steve was a good enough guitarist by himself and that we needed a second guitar . |
| 30 | But he was n't going to risk going for the green in two — he 's a gambler , but he 's not stupid , not with a one-stroke lead — and so he hit a wedge for his second shot short of the lake and then a 155-yard 9-iron directly over the flag for his approach . |