Example sentences of "so i [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's not particularly assertive , so I try to make him more so , ’ she explains . |
| 3 | After a while I thought I 'd go into the orchard and practise some chip shots so I went to get my nine iron . |
| 4 | ‘ Last night I finally realised what was missing from my design so I went to get it but I got into some problem . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I heard your dog scratching at the door , so I came to see what the matter was . |
| 6 | You were in Earl Moray 's castle , James , so I came to fight him . |
| 7 | I was determined , so I agreed to pay it back every week . |
| 8 | " At first , " John went on , obviously bent on making a clean breast of everything , " at first when I tell him you a whore , he do n't believe me , so I got to make him believe . |
| 9 | It would have been a foolish , bull-necked man who would have looked a gift horse in the mouth … so I like to see myself in a small way as following in his footsteps . ’ |
| 10 | If he does n't , we 'll do it for him , so I like to see them trying out grass for themselves . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's had a fever and now she wo n't let me out of her sight , so I 'ad to bring her . ’ |
| 12 | Well , 'e give me 'alf-a-crown , so I 'ad to pay me dues in the way of informin' 'im . |
| 13 | But the time to ‘ recognise ’ it image by image had gone ; just as the moments of each day fade away , so I 'd forgotten it . |
| 14 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 15 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 16 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds . |
| 18 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 19 | I shouted but you did n't hear , so I had to chase you . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They swallowed quite a bit out of politeness , but they 're not stupid , so I had to behave myself . |
| 21 | IN THE past year ‘ green ’ books have been flooding onto the market so I had to ask myself : ‘ What more can Green or Bust offer ? ’ |
| 22 | But I had no idea how to make them so I had to ask my tutor and show him the work . |
| 23 | I 'd started my album ‘ Were n't Born A Man ’ and Mick Ronson was the arranger and producer for a couple of tracks , and David produced a couple of tracks too , but during the making of the album , David became even bigger and bigger in America and the move to America was absolutely imminent so I had to finish my own album without the help of him because he was n't around — which I did . |
| 24 | ‘ It was bothering me , so I had to take it off ’ She closes her fingers over it . |
| 25 | ‘ At the end of each sitting I seemed to produce nothing , so I had to hide it ( the canvas ) and carry it facing me , so all the butlers would n't see it . ’ |
| 26 | Alarm clocks were unobtainable , so I had brought one from home , antiquated and enormous , with a bell like a fire-alarm , and I used to lie tense and rigid waiting for it to ring . |
| 27 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 28 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 29 | The person that was in my cell before me had urinated in it , so I had to clear it up before I could sleep and that was n't nice . |
| 30 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |