Example sentences of "[verb] have so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He supports the view that under current law the Fed has so much leeway that it can honestly claim to be fulfilling the will of Congress no matter what policies it adopts .
2 ‘ He 'd had so little education , but he loved books and believed learning was the key to living .
3 Well , I 'd had so much time on the sick , they put me on half pay .
4 I 've got so much bloody , I hate having so much stuff in my pockets it really really does annoy me .
5 Oh God I hate having so much shit in my pocket !
6 JERVIS : Why , sir , she is a poor , innocent , young creature and I believe has so much confidence in me that she would take my advice as soon as she would her mother 's .
7 She felt sleepy rather than tired , as a result , she told herself , of having had so little sleep of late .
8 It seemed so sad that Mrs MacAllister should have had so little time to enjoy this beauty and that he should be left here by himself . ’
9 ‘ We 'd have had so much shit over several hundred assorted carcases with immigration and quarantine on the borders in Europe , ’ Jourgensen 's partner Paul Barker explains .
10 The condemnation of the figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out is that in those boroughs we need never have had so many liability orders or so many people taken to the courts or threatened with prison if they had not been misled by Labour Members of Parliament and councillors into running up enormous debts .
11 ‘ It was disruptive , ’ she admits , ‘ because we kept having so many phone calls which meant that the staff got involved , together with the photocopying and sending out documents .
12 In the same spirit , ISS drew attention to the importance of HMI work on ‘ areas of experience ’ which seem to have had so little influence on TNC .
13 Like her great namesake she was always well organized , and of course she had had so much experience helping with my grandmother 's last six confinements , and going out sometimes with our local midwife , who to some would be a Sairey Gamp , but to those who knew her , another angel of mercy .
14 On the right side the hedgerow ran parallel with the road as it sloped away down to the crossroads where we had had so much trouble yesterday .
15 I wake up hating myself and fabricating reasons why I 've had so little sleep — I was woken in the middle of the night by a phone call , my cat kept jumping on my bed all night .
16 I suppose it 's because you 've had so much experience . ’
17 And the water 's high at the moment because we 've had so much rain , so it 's come up around their roots . ’
18 The carrycot , with buggy combined , has been really good value ; it cost about £120 but I 've had so much use out of it already .
19 They 'll keep it for Crunchie but never use it for anything else again because they 've had so much trouble with it .
20 ‘ It is a long time since I have had so much excitement . ’
21 We have had so much vandalism in the gardens including the removal of the Columbine VC bust .
22 I 'm sorry you have had so much trouble contacting us — blame the wonderful Indian summer we are having .
23 That is why we have had so many research studies in this area , and why we have such a wide variety of interesting cases of both successful and less successful projects which are extremely valuable starting points for analysis .
24 Honestly this bathroom 's had so much thought over it .
25 It is very difficult to play under the shadow of an older brother who 's had so much success .
26 She 's had so much plastic surgery done , it 's not like she 's herself any more .
27 Mum gets frightened on these occasions too ; she feels sorry for me ; neither of us understands quite why I have to have so many blood tests .
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