Example sentences of "so [adv] [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It was Jekub 's ; at least , it was in a big yellow box bolted to part of Jekub , so presumably it had belonged to Jekub .
2 And they collected so much they had to use a milk float to deliver the load .
3 So suddenly it had come , all they were working for .
4 For so long he had wondered if he would ever walk abroad again .
5 She was still not completely used to the journey northwards to the small empty house , when for so long she had gone southwards to the big flat near Westminster Cathedral , where her mother had waited , eager to hear every detail of her day .
6 So naturally I had to get it with and it was heavier th I do n't know how much it weighed , I I I got it by the way , in my barn in farm in Indiana , one of the last relics of Brothers .
7 She had been necessary , but despised , so naturally he had discarded her the moment she was no longer necessary to him , and their single sexual collision was all it had taken to free him .
8 My father would never have let me start digging up our graveyard for family pets otherwise , so off they had to go , departing this life in the rather undignified garb of half a badminton shuttlecock .
9 He lowered his head , kissing her angrily , and she fought him , struggling beneath him as he kept her trapped , even though she offered such resistance to what he knew so deeply she had wanted from the beginning .
10 So probably she had spotted him .
11 So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage .
12 So far they had smashed sixteen windows , burnt nine desks , singed the hair of several pupils and set someone 's jacket alight .
13 So far she had to agree .
14 So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition .
15 She wondered which part of the house Fernando and Maria Luisa occupied , which were their own personal quarters , because so far she had seen nothing that indicated that a happy couple occupied the place .
16 So far she had felt very little because she had been well prepared , but she did not have the necessary audacity to simply whisk the cloth away .
17 So far she had gained the distinct impression that being angry and obnoxious with her suited him just fine — he positively revelled in deriding her at every opportunity .
18 So far she had done nothing irrevocable .
19 His wife , more canny than she seemed , had already witnessed huge losses over a scheme to promote detachable shirt cuffs , and so far she had managed to sit on the remaining money .
20 Her part of the bargain was to keep that body in good working order , not to abuse it or damage it , and so far she had managed to do that pretty well .
21 So far she had got no information and she had come dangerously near to paying the price .
22 But so far she had refused to take any of them seriously — sensible Caroline .
23 So far she had avoided the interior of Emma Watt 's flat .
24 She gave a cool glance in return , cautiously pleased that so far she had betrayed nothing of her reaction at standing so close to him .
25 It had to be soon , it had to be quick , and so far he had seen no way of achieving it .
26 So far he had attended Mass at St Basil 's only once , sitting at the back and hurrying out after the service before anyone could speak to him .
27 Wolfgang was now 21 years old , no longer a child , and so far he had devoted his entire life to music .
28 So far he had found no way to resolve the conundrum facing him .
29 So now she had to stop thinking about it .
30 She had decided not to free the prisoners , so now she had to see what happened to the passengers .
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