Example sentences of "so [conj] [pron] had [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Max made us nail everything so that nobody had to put reverb on anything to cover up a mistake . |
| 2 | This was well below our own dead slow speed so that we had to keep stopping , or steam in wide circles to hold our position astern . |
| 3 | Corridors that sloped down more and more steeply , so that they had to sit and shuffle down the last few metres . |
| 4 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 5 | He used to pop out and use a pay phone , ringing publishers at awkward times like lunch time so that they had to ring him back . |
| 6 | At night , as they huddled round their fires , the people would murmur about the evil spirit who kicked holes in their kilns so that they had to buy their bricks from Dai Huang . |
| 7 | And dear old Sambo had provided more amusement by purloining the turkey , so that they had to eat the bread-sauce and chestnut stuffing without their raison d'être ! |
| 8 | Mum knew then she had met her match and tried-to retreat indoors , but Mrs Smith left her foot in the door so that she had to listen . |
| 9 | Lee felt a wave of self-pity in response , so that she had to brace herself with pride . |
| 10 | If only he would stop staring at her and winking at her and getting in her way about the house so that she had to brush past him ! |
| 11 | Her left field of vision was impaired ( technically hemianopia ) , so that she had to turn her head and use her right eye in order to see anything even slightly to the left of her . |
| 12 | Instead he stood , so that she had to gaze up to see his face . |
| 13 | ‘ Your design is very , very good , ’ he told her smoothly , curving his free hand under her chin , so that she had to look directly into his eyes . |
| 14 | He smiled again , so that she had to look away . |
| 15 | When Miguel tipped her chin so that she had to look into his eyes , she said rather bitterly , ‘ It sounds rather like where you took Victoria in the Mercedes , Miguel . |
| 16 | He grabbed her , reaching over to where she sat at the end of the sofa , turning her roughly by the arm so that she had to face him , had to look deep into his angry , ice-blue eyes . |
| 17 | As the moist heat of the mouth working at her breast penetrated the soft material of her shirt , that pang repeated itself , over and over again , so that she had to bite back a whimper . |
| 18 | as if the kiss he had forced from her had been forgotten , he released her and swivelled , abruptly leaving her so that she had to follow like a servant at his heels . |
| 19 | The tin was just wide enough for her to lie on , but it was very hot and burned her , so that she had to keep moving her bare legs . |
| 20 | Luke moved round the table and came closer , so that she had to tilt her head to look up into his face , and that — and only that ! — increased the whirling inside her head . |
| 21 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 22 | The Revolution of 1688 lost D'Urfey the courtly connections he had developed , so that he had to turn to other means of support . |
| 23 | And then , horizontally down the spine , so that he had to turn it round to read it in the light of a street lamp . |
| 24 | A gentle breeze broke the absolute silence , moving the curtain so that he had to steady it with his hand . |
| 25 | His family gave him control of his own finances again , so that he had to resume making budgetary decisions in his everyday life , such as choosing between a meal at Claridges or a physiotherapy session . |
| 26 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |
| 27 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 28 | But he was n't going to climb up there now and once up there see some obstruction ahead , some tunnel rim that might be just too low , so that he had to get down again and come back in like Damon had . |
| 29 | So that he had to get a job elsewhere — somewhere much better , ’ said Pickerage . |
| 30 | Two slotted benches occupied most of the space and they were high up so that you had to sit with neck bent or smash your head against the ceiling . |