Example sentences of "and so [noun prp] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The famous film director from France could speak no English , and so Miranda was being sent to do the interview as well as provide the paper 's weekly caricature ; she had the address of the location , a newsagent 's in the High Street of a part of the city she had never heard mentioned before , Giblett Park , though she had lived in London most of her life ; the Press Office had said that he would give her ten minutes between takes , or more if she were lucky and the filming was going well and Jean-Claude Meursault was feeling mellow . |
| 2 | And so William was able to escape . ’ |
| 3 | And so Oliver was left with only the drunken nurse . |
| 4 | And so Willi was squeezing himself into his best suit , the one he wore for daytime ceremonial occasions , and had spattered himself lavishly with aftershave cologne , and spent a long time arranging the frill of curls round his bald crown . |
| 5 | Penny went shopping with Rowan , into one of those very expensive boutiques shops , yeah , and between them they bought this dress , and when they got it home , Rowan 's mother would n't let her have it because it was too revealing and so Penny was stuck with it and then her mother would n't let her have it either , but the shop would n't refund , it would only give them credit so she 's got all this money to spend in the shop . |
| 6 | Joanna Lumley had always had a passion , as she put it , for Dirk Bogarde ; Dustin Hoffman was a fan of Sting ; John Lennon had been a great Monty Python fan , and so Yoko was delighted to meet John Cleese . |
| 7 | And so Forbus was gon na get the smack of firm government and the federal troops went into Little Rock and sorted it out . |
| 8 | And so Wemmick was married to Miss Skiffins , and we all celebrated afterwards at a little pub near the church . |
| 9 | South Wales , the principal supplier of paper for London newspapers and magazines , was part of the GWR empire and so Paddington was the destination for that bulk cargo , an average of 623 reels of paper arriving daily . |
| 10 | Though always happy at Saint Cloud , the Emperor had a weakness for the great palace of Fontainebleau , perhaps because of its associations with Napoleon I. Because of the magnificence of the palace it was impossible to live a quiet family life and so June was a month of great social activity , a sort of informal summer Court , at which was to be found the glittering society so indelibly associated with the regime . |
| 11 | Boadicea , on her shining chariot with scythes on the wheels , razed all the Roman settlements in her path , and so Durobrivae was obliterated . |