Example sentences of "so i [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual . |
| 2 | Cawthorne had disappeared around the northern end of the farmhouse , so I ran back the way I had come , around the south end and climbed the fence back into the hop field . |
| 3 | It was too cold and windy to sit and wait , though , so I limped back the way I had come , embittered at having to walk unnecessarily . |
| 4 | Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham . |
| 5 | Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal . |
| 6 | The lump is not ready to answer , so I turn up the pressure : ‘ He ai n't gon na say nothing . |
| 7 | Although we are now debating a piece of works legislation , it represents a major reform of parliamentary procedure , so I put down a marker at this stage to the effect that the Minister should be more forthcoming in considering whether we should have new procedures for dealing with orders . |
| 8 | Big men do n't cry so the saying goes , so I hold back the tears — but they 're there none the less . |
| 9 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 10 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 11 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
| 12 | He wanted someone to help him with his horses , so I took on the job . |
| 13 | ‘ He suggested it could have died another way , ’ Small recalls , ‘ so I took out a knife , skinned it on his desk , and showed him where the fox 's teeth had punctured the flesh . ’ |
| 14 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 15 | Back in the bathroom , so I turns down the bed , and goes . ’ |
| 16 | I could really do with a bit of a sit down and summat to drink , so I go down the driveway into the station . |
| 17 | Then I remembered the location of a luxurious caravan a relative has near Perpignan , so I looked up the guide , and found that there are a number of crags nearby — even better . |
| 18 | No one follows , so I come out the other end and nip round the small block . |
| 19 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 20 | Nothing happened for half an hour so I asked where the nearest Young Women 's Christian Association hostel was . |
| 21 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 22 | There 's a woman just up the road so I hop off the wall and run after her . |
| 23 | I had my trumpet case on my knee and half a carriage to myself , so I pulled out a paperback of Gore Vidal 's latest Essays and read the one where he thinks he gets confused with Anthony Burgess . |
| 24 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 25 | I must do something , I thought , so I rang up a friend of mine called David Woolcock . |
| 26 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
| 27 | But here I was stuck back on the dole with a Fostex 250 , a guitar , a microphone and a drum machine , so I worked out a way of getting up to about eleven tracks on the Portastudio by constantly bouncing to and fro . |
| 28 | I hate Heathcliff too , but I could not agree to murder , so I called out a warning from the kitchen window . |
| 29 | I took off the yellow waistcoat with its white lining and hung it on a hanger , and I took off my shoes , but rather like George I still felt myself to be on duty , so I switched off the light and lay on top of the bedclothes watching the black Canadian land slide by , while the free northern show went on above for hours in the sky . |
| 30 | Pater 's as busy as ever , of course , but the mater has kept on the house in London since Madeleine 's season , so I spend quite a lot of time in the Great Big City seeing shows , etc. etc . |