Example sentences of "so i [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , my parents live in Kenya and I was going to study in Nairobi , but Moi has suspended the classes at the university for this year , so I applied to come here . ’ |
| 2 | We have a right to know what is going on , so I went to find out . ’ |
| 3 | I just heard that Katie here was in so I came to see when she 'd be back on duty , that 's all . |
| 4 | No , I came to get a ticket for the literature festival but it was pouring down so I came to get out of the rain . |
| 5 | And if she comes back to the house , she wo n't be able to find me , so I got to stay there . |
| 6 | They 're closing , so I got to get out . |
| 7 | I dared not think how he would be if I went back then so I had to go on . |
| 8 | ‘ The trouble with using a Hasselblad is that you black out after each shot , and in the first session I 'd cut off the arms in one or two shots , so I had to go back and re-shoot those . |
| 9 | But because of the recession , my husband and I could n't afford to pay our mortgage , so I had to go back to work and I do n't enjoy it at all . |
| 10 | Funnily enough I believed that , but not Santa Claus , but my parents seemed to believe it , so I had to go along with them . |
| 11 | I did n't sign on or claim money or nothing , so I had to go out there and steal to get money in my pocket and clothes on my back . |
| 12 | I still needed money so I had to carry on working the streets . |
| 13 | If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times . |
| 14 | But she made no move to leave , so I had to say not at all , I 'd gone to bed because it seemed the warmest place . |
| 15 | Dad had been right ; it was foggy and getting thicker so I had to slow down because I could n't see where I was going . |
| 16 | Their positions were under constant sniper fire during the day so I had to keep as close to the ground as possible . |
| 17 | I had a terrible time last Friday — your paper sent me proofs to correct the same day so I had to struggle up with them . |
| 18 | It makes no sense arguing with them , so I had to walk away or get involved in fights . |
| 19 | The builders said the work would take six weeks , so I planned to move in after this , at the end of July . |
| 20 | ‘ So I decided to carry on with my knee heavily strapped . |
| 21 | My appointment was in Alès at eleven and I wanted to give myself plenty of time to find the place , so I decided to leave straight away . |
| 22 | ‘ The kids used to watch me working with my own tractor so I decided to make then their own version , ’ says Klaus . |
| 23 | For some reason I never understood , ICAO was not sympathetic and refused to include the item on the agenda , so I decided to attack head-on . |
| 24 | I had no proof of it but I was much too shy to eat every day in the company of soldiers anyway , so I decided to find somewhere else to eat . |
| 25 | I remembered that Charlie had always wanted to know how prices in Chelsea compared with those in Whitechapel , so I decided to find out for him . |
| 26 | I wished I 'd come instead with the local Horticultural Society — of which I am also a member — so I decided to wander off . |
| 27 | Talk did n't work , because he would n't , so I learned to hold back . ’ |
| 28 | But the Scanachrome process introduces a linear scanning over the whole image , so I proposed to paint only the area of the TV screen and leave the scanning on everything that is n't TV . |
| 29 | It started to rain when I was halfway to Porteneil , so I stopped to put on my ka-gool . |
| 30 | ‘ His engineer would not take over as he had had a full day 's terror , so I volunteered to take over engine control in his place . |