Example sentences of "so [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |
| 2 | So I left it up a side street and got a taxi back to the studio where I was due to appear . |
| 3 | So I left it for a while , and I thought I will phone her and find out . |
| 4 | ‘ They were n't worth keeping so I swapped them for a couple of balloons . ’ |
| 5 | So I sprayed it with a fine spray and it 's kept very well , had n't it ? |
| 6 | So I settled myself in a small tavern just down the street . |
| 7 | So I chipped it into a little space over the scrum , ran round , picked it up and went up the middle of the field . |
| 8 | She had forgotten or erased his face , and so she saw it through a blur , but his body was naked , exactly as she had remembered it , golden-white , muscular and slender , the black mass at the groin and out of it the penis rising dark amber-red . |
| 9 | So she popped him into a plastic box , wrapped it in brown paper and posted it . |
| 10 | So she locked them in a coat closet where they beat each other half to death in the dark for twenty minutes . |
| 11 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 12 | Only his song could do the trick , and float the witch into a dreamless sleep , and so she tied him to a perch by a silken ribbon and put bells on his bird 's feet . |
| 13 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 14 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 15 | So he left me in a stew of doubt . |
| 16 | So he took me to a butcher shoppe with a bacon slicer in it and you know it turned out that he was right aftr all . |
| 17 | So he shaved himself in a great hurry . |
| 18 | So he marked it with a paperclip for copying , put it back in its manila folder , ‘ wiped off all my fingerprints ’ , and hid it ‘ out of an abundance of caution ’ in the stack of other papers to be copied . |
| 19 | Faced with this united German front , Napoleon III realized that for him nothing of substance was likely to emerge from the meeting and so he turned it into an exercise in public relations . |