Example sentences of "so [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family could not speak English and my schoolboy French was almost exhausted so I bade them good afternoon but managed to make them understand that I would have dinner with them one evening soon — ‘ An English dinner . ’ |
| 2 | Not all mine did , so I left them all as thick as possible and matched the thick with the thin later . |
| 3 | Benjamin became lost in his own thoughts so I left him alone and lay on my own bed thinking about Mathilda until the bell sounded for supper . |
| 4 | I went back to Ralemberg 's house but it was all sealed up like a tomb so I left it alone . |
| 5 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 6 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 7 | " Tim was four years older than me , and quite clearly destined to be something successful in life , " he would remember , " so I thought it better to stay with him . |
| 8 | If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ So I thought it best to lie low for a while ; keep the nose clean by cutting out the rowdies . |
| 10 | I did n't like the colour on it , though , so I sprayed it gold with car spray . |
| 11 | Well , I was there , behind the bar , standing in for Marcus , for a few minutes he said , more like two hours , so I saw it all develop . |
| 12 | The fish was still on , and I had the golf-ball firmly clutched in my left hand , so I landed them both . |
| 13 | None of them applied to me , so I deleted them all and put ‘ Ms ’ . |
| 14 | I had no connections with the bigwigs of the movie capital so I found it impossible as a stranger to make the right contacts among publicity agents at the various studio lots , and to meet the stars . |
| 15 | ‘ Apparently , her cat had very bad plaque on its teeth and she was really concerned , so I gave her some advice and Amy has been in touch ever since . |
| 16 | Maui claimed to lose it , so she offered him each of her fingers and toes , one by one , until she realised she had been tricked . |
| 17 | oh , oh dear oh She said that one , one lady did a lot of recording and then played it back and listened to herself and did n't like her own voice so she wiped it all off and handed it in . |
| 18 | It sort of doubled up , or summat like that , so she crossed them all out and changed them . |
| 19 | No , so she told me that |
| 20 | from Pilkingtons and there 's little , she said you would n't notice it but there 's little like , little things on and when he did the grouting yesterday she said that she said it was awful , she did n't like it at all so she told him this morning |
| 21 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
| 22 | Aye , she were washing them or summat and he were annoying her so she threw them all . |
| 23 | Yeah , so you coloured it first of all then . |
| 24 | She needed to know that you loved her ; so you told her all about the new drugs she could get from the Arcturans , or the huge advances in radiation treatment since rho mesons had been discovered . |
| 25 | ‘ So you told us last night , Ramsay , ’ the Earl of Strathearn observed dismissively . |
| 26 | She was always careful while here to cast her inquiries in the form of statements and she said , choosing her words meticulously , ‘ I expect Jasper was a bit off-colour this morning so you felt it wiser not to send him to school . |
| 27 | When we originally talked to Barry about it , we already knew that the Prime Minister would be guest that night , so we told him all about it , and he had this great idea . |
| 28 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 29 | She came out and said he was definitely still in one piece but probably had cramp or pins and needles so we gave him some painkiller . |
| 30 | These people here are very over-careful you know , they just like to cover every eventuality so they asked us all to ring our families even though there is n't a thing wrong … . ’ |