Example sentences of "so [adv] [pers pn] had [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 And they collected so much they had to use a milk float to deliver the load .
2 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 .
3 So far she had to agree .
4 So now she had to stop thinking about it .
5 She had decided not to free the prisoners , so now she had to see what happened to the passengers .
6 So now he had to think of something different .
7 Pascoe 's mind was racing so fast he had to make an effort of will to bring it under control .
8 The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages .
9 to put his coat on , I picked him up and tried to carry him , and he just flung himself around so hard I had to put him down and he immediately flung himself on the floor again !
10 But the songs were pushing so hard I had to get out there and do it . ’
11 Some got as far as Rhodesia and the high altitude was n't any good so then they had to go on to Cape Town .
12 So then I had to put in for another grant because he 'd smashed every damn thing .
13 The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change .
14 So then she had to explain the rest of it , from the beginning .
15 It used to heat so then you had to give it time to cool and settle down .
16 So then you had to argue it out to get the script changed to how it ought to read .
17 He 'd shot the question at me so unexpectedly I had to have time to recover .
18 But er at that time there was plenty work coming in , erm there was , there was no need for us to be apprehensive , and so therefore we had to convince the management that in the best interests of everybody , having agreed that the scheme would go on across the whole spectrum of the workforce , was to move reasonably , you know , quickly through the various machine departments and introduce with a minimum amount of frustration .
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