Example sentences of "so that [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some of the older ones would get together so that they had ginormous piles of rubbish .
2 He threw the handkerchief carelessly into a laundry basket , then before she knew what was happening , he was kissing the tips of her fingers , then her palms , then drawing her hands towards him so that she had little choice but to slide her arms around him and receive his kiss .
3 So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’
4 I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal .
5 And then I bought another one and then I bought a third one so that I had three combines but there were no other combines on Orkney at all .
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