Example sentences of "so [pron] [verb] i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was passing when I saw the gates not shut properly , so I thought I 'd best come in and see if everything was all right at the house … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well , film work 's very precarious , of course — so I thought I 'd better get a steady job for a bit , especially when my money ran out . ’ |
| 3 | Your cousin warned me off again , we had a little set-to in the pub , so I thought I 'd better come and make me mark . ’ |
| 4 | Edwin was a crafty old so-andso and he did n't like his children very much — not that I blame him — so I thought I 'd better get the beneficiaries together and explain . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been tepid sponging and monitoring since he was admitted , but there does n't appear to be any improvement — in fact , I 'd say he 's marginally worse than he was an hour ago , so I thought I 'd better get you to take a look at him . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My job as deputy chief whip is to get MPs to pull their weight , so I thought I 'd better set an example . ’ |
| 7 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 8 | I 'd been told the baby was semi-posterior so I knew I had to turn her into a more comfortable position for birth . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 10 | My mother 's family came from England , so I felt I had a sense of searching out my identity . |
| 11 | My mother 's family came from England , so I felt I had a sense of searching out my identity . |
| 12 | Fuel costs were really starting to mount up , so I felt I had to contribute something . |
| 13 | ‘ He is n't our dog , but he lives next door to us , ’ she explained , ‘ so I suppose I 'd better take charge of him and see that he does n't do any more mischief . ’ |
| 14 | Well Grant should have tape loaded by now so I suppose I 'd better go and see how he 's getting on . |
| 15 | I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden . |
| 16 | I wait a minute ; no traffic passes , so I guess I have n't been seen . |
| 17 | We do not want to lose any explorers of the quantum world on the way so I think I had better issue a survival kit before we start . |
| 18 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 19 | ‘ So you see I 've got to protect myself . |
| 20 | that he just received them like , about half an hour before Mike rang up , so he said I 've got to get me secretary to type them out and then we , I 'll send them to you and we 've got to sign 'em , then what happens from there ? |
| 21 | Yeah no he was just saying that head office they 'll dictate to them like anybody else so he said I 've got to have erm the mortgage up to date for a start before I can consider anything . |
| 22 | Ryan he says it 's foolish , cards , he says mum when you just , you just put them somewhere and forget where you put them , so he says I 've decided to buy you oh this looks a lovely one |
| 23 | As all the world knows I 'm now 61 so it follows I 've been playing for yonks , interrupted only by a broken leg and two children . |