Example sentences of "so what [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happened was , the track was very heavy and I guess Michael wanted to go more toward a ballad direction , so what they did was sell the song to Cher and she sang on it . |
| 2 | So what they did was introduce statistical techniques whereby not every bullet was inspected , a sample was inspected and great conclusions were drawn from very careful examination of a small number of , of items . |
| 3 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 4 | So what they did was they sent people out to listen to him , you 've got evidence of that as early on as Chapter One and Chapter Two . |
| 5 | Okay , so what they did was they looked at what would be an attractive reinforcer in their work force erm , if if they were to persuade them to wear ear defenders , and they found out , from doing research in the work force , that consumer durables would be appropriate . |
| 6 | So what they did was they went elsewhere . |
| 7 | So what we thought was , if you use this as your address , you can go together South Shields . |
| 8 | ‘ So what we did was to take a couple of months for everybody in the band to write songs , and to rehearse everything . |
| 9 | On the other hand we did want to keep it medieval looking on the inside , so what we did was we installed these Yorkshire sliding casement but on the inside as you can see at the top window , we put panel window . |
| 10 | So every everything was held right up so what we did was we was we cut back off we 're coming along the main road cut back off and went all down Halbury New Road and along Beach Road and around that way . |
| 11 | Erm I was , I , I thought that , when you covered all the policies you then went through and summarized all the needs and I thought you were n't going to go back and , and er explore further so what you did is you covered all the policies and then you summarized everything and then explored all the needs and s and at one point I thought that you were n't actually going to do that but you did come back and do it , you just did it in a different way . |
| 12 | Shaved this Lieutenant Sergeant Major eyebrow off when he was sleeping one night , and he was in front of the , the Colonel Chief and Regional so what he did , he , cos it , it took , taken ages , took about three months to grow back , so what he did was he shaved the other one off as well |
| 13 | But dad 's being chilly so what he did was calculated was n't it ? |
| 14 | So what I thought was that it was quite important to look at all these organisations that do seem to me really to have nothing to do with Oxford or Oxfordshire , and that we should be very careful . |
| 15 | So what I did is I writ thirty plus thirty four , adding up to sixty four and she jumped up and she 's grabbing thing off table and she had hold of the screwdriver and I says to Linda thought she was gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were n't , she were looking for a pencil so she could rub it out , well she could n't and she found this pencil and she scribbled thirty four out . |
| 16 | ‘ So what I did was , I got some stones and threw them at the driver . ’ |
| 17 | Er so what I did was something a bit simpler than that I just went through the memorandum and and ticked off what I regarded as restrictive statements as against positive ones . |
| 18 | So what I did was I used Illustrator and did a , used a free hand tool and drew a really sloppy dollar sign which looked kind of dangly dinosaurish , only with the inside with a nice curve , so they could see that I was n't a complete |