Example sentences of "so [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road . |
| 2 | My diary records such incidents as , ‘ Had to eat another roll at breakfast , much to my disgust ’ , or ‘ M. insisted that I eat another piece of toast , so I walked out in disgust . ’ |
| 3 | Nor were we provided with lunch , so I walked down into Walham Green , past pleasant little gardens full of the colour of autumn . |
| 4 | But it made sense at least to stretch my cramped legs , so I strolled down to the edge of the lake and lit a cigarette . |
| 5 | The Sierra had parked about a third of the way down the street , so I went on past the junction and ran Armstrong up on to the pavement . |
| 6 | ‘ So I went up to him . |
| 7 | I thought he must have gone a bit ga-ga but there was no harm so I went up to my room and did my hair a bit . |
| 8 | There was no answer to my knock so I went round to the side door facing the canal . |
| 9 | It was groceries , peas , baked beans and things , so I went round to somebody 's house and asked if she 'd like to buy the Weetabix because I wanted the money for a pie . |
| 10 | I could n't make friends so I went around by myself , did things by myself . |
| 11 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
| 12 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 13 | ’ So I went down to the canal . |
| 14 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 15 | It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension . |
| 16 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 18 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
| 19 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 20 | ‘ So I went back to Alassio and at the end of the month Constanza came to pick me up and to tell her mother . |
| 21 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 22 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 23 | They were still uncomfortable , so I went back into the optician . |
| 24 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 25 | It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique . |
| 26 | It suited George , so I went along with it . |
| 27 | He could n't get away when I did , so I came up on my own . |
| 28 | You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one . |
| 29 | But I was still Queen of Scots , so I came back to Scotland . |
| 30 | ‘ No , but I have n't told Ma yet , so I came out as if I were going too school . ’ |