Example sentences of "so i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had a death in the family which I could understand , so I lent you a book , which you have n't returned . |
| 2 | before so I lent them , so he 's gone in I go by the same time as him we both got ta sign them |
| 3 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 4 | A big grey house with a ‘ Guests ’ sign stood among trees , so I knocked at the door and asked how to find the holy well . |
| 5 | There was-no sign of a mansion , so I knocked at a cottage door and enquired . |
| 6 | I still thought she should be keener , however , so I knocked yet another half an ounce off her flying weight , until she was so eager that she set off towards me virtually the moment she saw me putting on the glove . |
| 7 | I could n't afford drink , so I resorted to Karen instead . |
| 8 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 9 | She s still got the fag and matches in her hands , so I take them away from her . |
| 10 | She also left her electric fire , so I take that in too . |
| 11 | There are too many to throw away all at once , so I take a handful out every day and hide them in someone 's garbage can . |
| 12 | I have to admit that if the situation was reversed I would go bonkers with frustration , so I take my hat off to him — but not my shirt . |
| 13 | ‘ So I take it that you 're just here for a holiday , on your own , Miss Fenemore ? |
| 14 | They 'll be shot , so I take their pay to them . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't have a car so I take as little as I can get away with , ’ she says . |
| 16 | ‘ So I take a few risks , ’ I snap . |
| 17 | We have to say the English one and I hate saying da-da-da so I make my own one , an Indian prayer and say it . |
| 18 | I think I probably wasted a lot of time not feeling good about myself , and I would n't want Deb to feel like that , so I make a deliberate effort to be supportive , to say she looks nice and notice what she 's wearing , that kind of thing . |
| 19 | Streets or parks are too theatrical for me to be at ease , so I make bad moves , exaggerate or , more often , under-bid . |
| 20 | ‘ When I was told to rest all week and just turn up and play on the Saturday , I felt sluggish and lethargic , so I make sure I do the required hours every week . |
| 21 | It takes a big man to allow a homeless person into his underpants , so I make no apology for returning to the otherwise distressing subject of Jonathan Lloyd 's nether garments . |
| 22 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 23 | OK , so I admit you were right about Lori , but it was rather cruel . ’ |
| 24 | Well I know that you use an answering machine , so I ignored it . |
| 25 | I 'm quite a lazy person so I ignored them . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I had brand new shoes on ; it was warm and they were uncomfortable so I undid the laces . |
| 27 | ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot . |
| 28 | There was no sign of the Transit , so I hung a right back the way I 'd come . |
| 29 | I decide to play it safe , so I tackle up with a ¼oz bullet stopped only 1½ inches from the number 4 hook . |
| 30 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |