Example sentences of "so it have " in BNC.

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1 And so it had begun …
2 So it had , Maggie realized .
3 And so it had proved .
4 So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished .
5 Frustratingly , however , the IPG was unable to view these publications in advance and so it had little idea as to how useful they would be .
6 So it had been a collection day today .
7 He had shown , or so it had seemed to her at the time , genuine concern for others .
8 The house had become far too large and expensive to maintain for Aunt Lou and so it had been altered , the top half being made into a separate flat on the first floor and a studio apartment created in the former attics .
9 And so it had .
10 So it had seemed better all round that they should go .
11 And so it had gone on , generation after generation , Dowd changing his face on occasion ( a simple trick , or feit ) so as to conceal his longevity from the withering human world .
12 And so it had remained until the scoops and cranes and bulldozers of 1970s Post-Industrial Man had moved in to uproot the scrub and to build the suburb known as Greystone Edge .
13 There had been the lot , or so it had seemed , at Cambridge : socialists , communists , socialites , die-hard dinner-jacketed Pitt Club Tories , Bohemians , Christians , lacrosse and rugger players , sloggers , poets , actors , Leavisites , wits , bores , eccentrics , homosexuals ; to Cambridge they flocked , from ancient grammar-schools , upstart grammar-schools , progressive schools , public schools , private schools , even from private tutors in the South of France .
14 Well it was still light so it had n't di I did n't really realize how late it was getting .
15 So it had to be closed .
16 So it had to have a structure .
17 He was aware that Sidacai 's death at this point would be considered a waste , and so it had been a calculated risk to demonstrate readiness to accept a challenge .
18 So it had n't been Johnny up there this morning , after all .
19 So it had been a bluff .
20 So it had to be .
21 So it had been quite refreshing when Luke had said goodbye with no more than the lightest brush of his lips against her cheek .
22 So it had n't occurred to Folly to ask her assistant if Luke had been in .
23 He kindly gave me a lift home en route to get his bike : he had a nasty fall off it last week and so it had to be repaired .
24 Oh I think there 's no doubt about that and also their their their wages were low in the beginning you know and and their their their hard work that they 've put into it for the last you know I mean it had it I mean David Price says at the best of times is not easy to run a quarry you know you know and they they ha all work in a quarry so it had to be a cooperation and you know the management said you come up with us and and they were n't complaining actually about the wages it was quite good wages for .
25 And so it had started ; and now it had come to a head .
26 He 'd met up with a marvellous girl in Munster , anyway ; then a fully consenting Hausfrau from Hamburg … and so it had gone on .
27 Æthelred 's henchmen were perhaps able to stifle or ignore discontent for much of the time , but even so it had its price .
28 er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well .
29 If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies .
30 Erm so it had to have all the lighting , official lighting for the continent and so on and so forth .
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