Example sentences of "so [pron] [verb] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He 's not particularly assertive , so I try to make him more so , ’ she explains .
2 I was determined , so I agreed to pay it back every week .
3 I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’
4 ‘ It was bothering me , so I had to take it off ’ She closes her fingers over it .
5 The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off .
6 The person that was in my cell before me had urinated in it , so I had to clear it up before I could sleep and that was n't nice .
7 I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster .
8 To do the line justice , it would take up the next six issues , so I intend to show you only some of the more interesting such as the First Class blank Privilege Ticket .
9 Andrew and Waddy play bars 7 and 8 in harmony , so I 've written them separately , for clarity 's sake .
10 ‘ I thought it might be diplomatic to take the garage , ’ he continued , ‘ so I 've cleaned it off and it 's in the car . ’
11 ‘ Mmm , that 's what I thought , so I decided to take you back to the house to eat . ’
12 ‘ He never used to notice when people took advantage of him , so I started pointing it out .
13 It 's back in its box now , but it 's still pretty big — so I have to stick it in with the dirty washing .
14 And I felt so happy and excited so I did ring him up . ’
15 It would be two weeks before she got another chance so she had to take it now whether Maggie was sober or not .
16 She had put on one of Alice 's brassières under the dress she had lent her , but it looked odd , so she had to take it off .
17 You know like twice a day , so she 's got nothing too loose really .
18 Because she said because he wo n't let the postman come round the back so she has to keep him inside .
19 So you 've told me before .
20 Oh , so you 've got nothing else ?
21 He asks something which , you know , I mean the way they do , what is life , and you would n't know — unless you 're perhaps trained or awake to the significance of what the child is actually asking — you would n't know how to respond to that , so you tend to put it off .
22 He asks something which , you know , I mean the way they do , what is life , and you would n't know — unless you 're perhaps trained or awake to the significance of what the child is actually asking — you would n't know how to respond to that , so you tend to put it off .
23 So we 've got that so you deserve to have it as soon as possible after banking it .
24 Erm so you have to do something now before you actually retire .
25 But , remember these are wet so you have to leave them out , flat to dry .
26 It was a tiny cell , so we had to take it in turns to sit down .
27 You 're in luck — we found a fowl this morning , and it did n't look too well , so we had to put it out of its misery . ’
28 ‘ Nothing takes make-up off faster than chicken grease so we had to keep them away from that , ’ continues Drexler .
29 While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ .
30 He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio .
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