Example sentences of "so i [vb past] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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1 | But it made sense at least to stretch my cramped legs , so I strolled down to the edge of the lake and lit a cigarette . |
2 | ‘ So I went up to him . |
3 | I thought he must have gone a bit ga-ga but there was no harm so I went up to my room and did my hair a bit . |
4 | There was no answer to my knock so I went round to the side door facing the canal . |
5 | It was groceries , peas , baked beans and things , so I went round to somebody 's house and asked if she 'd like to buy the Weetabix because I wanted the money for a pie . |
6 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
7 | ’ So I went down to the canal . |
8 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
9 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
10 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
11 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
12 | ‘ So I went back to Alassio and at the end of the month Constanza came to pick me up and to tell her mother . |
13 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
14 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
15 | It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique . |
16 | But I was still Queen of Scots , so I came back to Scotland . |
17 | I assumed the Maggot was delivering or picking up a customer , but it was none of my business , so I stripped down to my shorts and began work as Thessy , his brother Philemon and their father took a battered wooden skiff across the lagoon . |
18 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
19 | However , I find yoga a bit slow and I like to exercise to music , so I moved on to popmobility-type aerobics which I named ‘ slimobility ’ . |
20 | There was n't time to read anything then , so I nipped back to my flat and found a Virgin Records plastic bag to hide them in . |