Example sentences of "so [adv] [pers pn] had " 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 then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space .
3 There 's a story also of how I supposedly made him do take after take of a scene in which he slides down a rope until he was rope-burned so badly he had blood pouring from his hands .
4 ‘ To lutin ’ means to tie hair in ELF-locks ; sometimes he would tangle a horse 's mane so badly it had to be cut .
5 This lamb 's leg was tangled with twine and swollen so badly it had to be put down .
6 However , I 'm afraid Colin James got his wires crossed a bit regarding our catering vehicle , so perhaps I had better set the record straight .
7 The whole ritual took most of them half an hour though there were always a few that gossiped so much they had to be nagged by their Head Girl .
8 And they collected so much they had to use a milk float to deliver the load .
9 You know this K L M deal , so obviously we had n't got under the finger until called me in almost desperation
10 So suddenly you had a house all of your own !
11 So suddenly it had come , all they were working for .
12 For so long he had wondered if he would ever walk abroad again .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 So anyway we had us dinner so he says he said it 'll take thee half an hour to get ready wo n't it ?
17 So anyway she had the er settee and brought a friend with her with a well I think it was one of these Range Rovers that you can seat erm , you know , about seven and he dropped the seats down and got the settee in , I do n't know how he managed it .
18 The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the .
19 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 .
20 So yesterday we had our chat and today you go social calling on Mrs Edna Scamp , well-known geriatric reprobate and old slag of the parish of Woolwich .
21 There was no sign of his jacket but there was a second door to the room so probably he had a private bathroom and clothes closet as well .
22 So probably she had spotted him .
23 A minute or so later she had been connected and the reservations clerk was asking for details of her ticket .
24 I 'm not sure how the connection was made , in that I build canoes ( wooden canoes-wood — dog sled ? ) , but a week or so later I had a set of plans .
25 So far they had been doing nothing more than ‘ just walking the dog , Guv ’ .
26 So far they had smashed sixteen windows , burnt nine desks , singed the hair of several pupils and set someone 's jacket alight .
27 Mary lived in Ormskirk , and so far they had been lucky there .
28 Yet so far they had not prayed ; Amanda Fergusson appeared still to be arguing with her father ; while the God she had taken to proclaiming did not sound the kind of God who would lightly forgive the Colonel 's obstinate sinning against the light .
29 So far they had n't applied for a search warrant to go over the boat , but Maurice did n't care if they did .
30 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 .
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