Example sentences of "so i was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I had expressed a preference for the Navy , so I was sent to Plymouth , to join the Devonshire regiment , at Mill Bay docks , which was a an infantry regiment and machine gun core regiment . |
| 2 | So I was waling through the bus station one day and I met this girl and er Ooh , she said , I 'm glad I 've seen you , she said . |
| 3 | My first , er , but sad duty is simply to say that Sir Kenneth , our President , had hoped to be here , but he 's had er , an operation and er , he is not really quite well enough , so I was asked as a Vice-President , whether I would stand in for him , at the weekend , and er I shall do my best , and erm , I 'm glad to have to opportunity of doing one or two things , but we 'll come to those in due time . |
| 4 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 5 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 6 | So I was looking at the slide sitting on the strings , and looking at the major third on the fretboard , and then I said , ‘ If only I could get this note here . ’ |
| 7 | So I was looking for , I did n't know where it was and I thought well |
| 8 | So I was looking around the Beckenham and Bromley area when I found this place called Haddon Hall which was an amazing property . |
| 9 | So I was learning from my own mistakes and others at the time er things like getting the right county where the New Brighton happen to be and things like that I was learning . |
| 10 | So I was left on the on the on the on the verge . |
| 11 | And so I was left to live alone with my aunt . |
| 12 | and then you two started whispering so I went somewhere else , so I was whispering in class |
| 13 | There was a feeling that by doing so I was siding with the white community , not showing solidarity with my own people . |
| 14 | So I was put in a total quandary when my partners asked me to go out and do just that , ’ she says . |
| 15 | However , due to a lack of refinements such as a truss rod , the neck was so warped that I could n't put any frets on it , and so I was introduced to the world of fretless bass at an early age … ’ |
| 16 | So I was introduced to Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 17 | So I was racing through South London on my bike , nearly getting crushed several times by lorries , head bent over the dropped handlebars , swiftly running through the ten Campagnola gears , nipping through traffic , sometimes mounting the pavement , up one-way streets , breaking suddenly , accelerating by standing up on the pedals , exhilarated by thought and motion . |
| 18 | The magistrate did not consider a barrack changing-room to be a proper address , and so I was ordered to be confined in a bail hostel in Camden Town while social reports were completed . |
| 19 | So I was caught with these milk tokens . |
| 20 | Erm sell for about eighty seven pound including spacers so I was gon na go in at about eighty three , eighty four but it 's the new pricing company so I 've got to ask your permission have n't I ? |
| 21 | And it was a completely different fitting to the other one so I was gon na get one the same as the old one |
| 22 | I 'd just had enough of them so I was gon na do them when we got the shafts , like then I see what you do . |
| 23 | No , so I was gon na say , I , I , go up to the shop up Kingswood see if they had any cheap up there . |
| 24 | I do n't , I du n no cos I do n't really know her , I do n't really know her and all this , I was gon na say something , but I do n't really know him , so I was gon na ask him does he fancy Sukey |
| 25 | Well her mother was saying , they got engaged and , you know , there was drinks and her mother was saying oh the wedding 's gon na be in February , it 's gon na be a quick wedding and all this so I was talking to her , I said Cath I said when are you are getting married then ? |
| 26 | But after almost everyone had tiptoed tipsily to bed , one couple — or so I was told over breakfast next day — stayed behind in the darkened dome-car and made love softly , to the rhythm of the rails . |
| 27 | or so I was told in all seriousness |
| 28 | So I was doin' about a gram of heroin , a gram of cocaine , the most I ever done was a gram . |
| 29 | So I was taken to hospital and I was in hospital two years . |
| 30 | So I was taken into care again , went to an assessment centre and ended up in an approved school for girls in Hertfordshire . |