Example sentences of "so [pron] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | Those Belgians must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time , and they probably saw something they should n't have seen , so someone shut them up for good . |
2 | Marie 's left a load of mags behind , so I pick one up and have a flick through it . |
3 | My hat 's fell off so I stick it back on and look round . |
4 | I do n't mind shopping on Saturday when I 've got the money , but I do n't like it during the week — I 'm usually broke by Monday — so I keep it down to a minimum . |
5 | Disconnect the mains lead to your PC and plug it into the Expert ; there are two sockets for power leads leaving the UPS , so I checked it out with two PCs . |
6 | I was afraid of getting an arrow in my eyes , but I suddenly remembered I still had an old pair of reading glasses in my pocket , so I put them on and continued my work . |
7 | ‘ Corsages were kept in a little drop of water , ’ Harry explained , ‘ but you ca n't plunge a bouquet in a drop of water , so I put them over a bowl of water supported by two canes . |
8 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
9 | Angela , 19 , from Woolton and presently studying medicine at Nottingham University , says : ‘ I had all the classic symptoms of flu so I put it down to that . |
10 | But dear Caroline 's got an almighty hangover , sick as a dog , so I brought him over on the back of the bike to see it again . |
11 | He came round to Grace , so I brought him along here . " |
12 | Mrs Donnelly said : ‘ I explained I did not want to buy any windows , but the salesman said he just wanted to show us what was on offer so I let him in . |
13 | Like , I did n't know whether to believe him or not , but you 'd feel wick if he was n't spoofing , so I let him off with a caution . |
14 | It was at this point , partly because I was so nervous , that I felt it necessary to build her weight up a little , so I fed her up and overdid it , with the result that she got above her ideal flying weight . |
15 | ‘ It was too sexy for the song so I toned it down . ’ |
16 | So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end . |
17 | By this time I was really getting worried , so I took him back and the doctor said , ‘ Oh , it 's all right , there 's nothing the matter with him . ’ |
18 | he had six sisters an' a brither an' he wouldna stay wi' any o'them , cause he wanted to stay wi'me , so I took him in . |
19 | ‘ She 'd put Peter Pan collars on them , so I took them off again , and fortunately there was enough stuff left to finish the neck lines . ’ |
20 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
21 | When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally . |
22 | I assumed something was wrong with the unit , so I took it back from where I bought it and got another one . |
23 | I 'd like to stay here on the floor but there 's cars beeping at me and I think I 'm lying in the road , so I push myself up and sort of crawl to the pavement . |
24 | Little grains of dry sand stuck to it , so I brushed them off . |
25 | I looked at my clock to find that it was nine thirty so I dragged myself out of bed and put on my dressing gown . |
26 | ‘ I do n't , I just happened to see that tatty book of horoscopes Myra keeps on her desk while I was waiting for you one day , so I looked it up , ’ Dana said defiantly . |
27 | I felt a bit sorry for 'im once , so I sent 'im over a bird but 'e were n't 'aving none of it . |
28 | I felt a bit sorry for 'im once , so I sent 'im over a bird but 'e were n't 'aving none of it . |
29 | But by then various other children were misbehaving too , so I sent them out , and suddenly I realized that half of my class was outside the door having a whale of a time ! |
30 | I was relieved to find my protege still motionless underneath his breeze block , so I picked him up , showed him the food and then laid him back on a fresh bed made from the local evening paper . |