Example sentences of "so [pers pn] had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was mizzling steadily , so I had lashed out on a minibus ticket , which cost more than a taxi would here . |
| 2 | But because of the recession , my husband and I could n't afford to pay our mortgage , so I had to go back to work and I do n't enjoy it at all . |
| 3 | Funnily enough I believed that , but not Santa Claus , but my parents seemed to believe it , so I had to go along with them . |
| 4 | If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times . |
| 5 | I had a terrible time last Friday — your paper sent me proofs to correct the same day so I had to struggle up with them . |
| 6 | As soon as he walked through the door of the rather dark basement flat in the Bayswater Road and heard her explain that Pauline 's boyfriend was ill so she had gone off to his place to see what she could do for him , Freddie wanted to flee . |
| 7 | When we were married , Jane was still an undergraduate at Westfield College in London , so she had to go up to London during the week . |
| 8 | Juliet had managed to grab a cup of coffee and a sandwich , but had been reluctant to leave Wendy Target virtually alone on the ward , so she had hurried back after ten minutes . |
| 9 | If you were unfortunate enough to get a bad cook it took a while before the powers that be realised it , so you had to put up with inedible food for weeks . |
| 10 | I was putting them round the back and sat thinking about it and I said well we ai n't got no peat , so we had to rush over to Hetford and bought some very good peat , and erm , by the time I got back and started digging hole for them to go in |
| 11 | It was on another run , we got another coach come back so they had to go out to where the one it was |
| 12 | At the same time they had on Mondays and Tuesday we used to sell weekly tickets , so they had to go out in another box on Mondays and Tuesdays . |
| 13 | But this was a lean season for flowers , so he had gone out into the rain looking for snowdrops . |
| 14 | Baby Jesus was real poor , so he had to grow up on a farm and that , and when he got bigger he went round with some friends telling everyone about God , and then he died . |