Example sentences of "so [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are too many to throw away all at once , so I take a handful out every day and hide them in someone 's garbage can . |
| 2 | ‘ So I take a few risks , ’ I snap . |
| 3 | It takes a big man to allow a homeless person into his underpants , so I make no apology for returning to the otherwise distressing subject of Jonathan Lloyd 's nether garments . |
| 4 | I think I probably wasted a lot of time not feeling good about myself , and I would n't want Deb to feel like that , so I make a deliberate effort to be supportive , to say she looks nice and notice what she 's wearing , that kind of thing . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I had brand new shoes on ; it was warm and they were uncomfortable so I undid the laces . |
| 6 | There was no sign of the Transit , so I hung a right back the way I 'd come . |
| 7 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |
| 8 | She had no family so I arranged the funeral . |
| 9 | He has the look of a man whose cards are shot , so I try a finesse . |
| 10 | After a while we appeared to stop accelerating in this nose-high stance — and of course we could no longer clearly see where we were going , so I eased the yoke forward to lift us onto the step . |
| 11 | But you were n't there , so I left a message with your Miss Philimore . |
| 12 | The going looked even worse ahead , so I left the wheelbarrow and scouted around . |
| 13 | Then I figured I 'd better try the same approach on guitar , so I put a really high nut on this old Gibson Melody Maker and I started using bottleneck on it . |
| 14 | — So I put the phone back down again . |
| 15 | It was n't a case of being fed up with golf , I just get really tired so I put the clubs in the bag and forget them . ’ |
| 16 | I did n't want to be dependent upon anybody , and I thought , ‘ This is the day to end it all , ’ but I did n't want to make anybody upset about it , so I put the cat out and I did n't leave a note and I thought , ‘ I 'll make this look very natural . ’ |
| 17 | It was now evening and a light wind was blowing , so I lowered the sails before climbing down a rope and into the sea . |
| 18 | I was off Cley at the time , so I lowered the main and ran for home . |
| 19 | More than half a sweaty hour touring the environs of the station , revealed there was n't space to park even a roller-skate , so I adopted a to-hell-with-it attitude and parked in a corner of the horseshoe — well out of everybody 's way . |
| 20 | No one stopped me , so I followed the edge of the path round to the house . |
| 21 | Further progress along the track was now not advisable , so I followed the kakar up the glade , and turning to the left worked my way down , over open ground , to the forest road below . |
| 22 | There was no footpath from here on , so I followed the boundary wall and fence dividing West Witton and Melmerby parishes until I came , dripping and thirsty , wet oil the outside and dry on the inside , to the Height of Hazely . |
| 23 | I hate throwing my MKM away so I devised a way of condensing the information and patterns . |
| 24 | Loose props tended to fall out with a movement of the window , so I devised a fixed prop using a crab clamp and a small batten . |
| 25 | Had to break out so I kicked a hole in it , you see , but I 've cut my feet … ’ |
| 26 | I had made a flask of tea and some sandwiches but had run out of milk at home , so I brought a stoppered bottle along planning to buy some milk in Keld . |
| 27 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |
| 28 | At last both the sous and the stories ran out so I sold the cloak and gathered a few objects : bones , shards of pottery and the occasional rag . |
| 29 | I 've been a boarder , so I know the routine . |
| 30 | My mum likes sherry , so I know the smell . |