Example sentences of "[been] so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never have I been so reviled , never , and I have taken it all , knowing him to be old and alone , and I … ’ |
| 2 | Was it possible for the corpse to have been so treated , with the ‘ hollownesse ’ of every bone to be filled up with solid lead ? |
| 3 | The Earl of Moira was one candidate who , having been so treated , was wrapped and bound in pseudo-Egyptian fashion prior to being deposited in his ancestral vault . |
| 4 | He 'd been so flattered by her unflagging attention , her unflagging efforts to please him , that he did n't have a clue who she was . |
| 5 | In an editorial on 2 November 1985 , headlined ‘ Unfinished Business ’ , it asked ‘ whether the structures and institutions of British life have been so shaken by six years of Mrs Thatcher that they can no longer fall back into their old ways — or whether more shaking is needed ? ’ |
| 6 | The West Indies were back home and they restored some of their public 's faith that had been so shaken by their failures in the World Cup . |
| 7 | This could be extended later to other agencies in the criminal justice system , but it has not yet been so extended . |
| 8 | Nigeria 's rainforests have been so exploited for logs that the country now imports more hardwood than it exports . |
| 9 | Within minutes we were discussing a recent television series adapted from a classical novel and disagreeing about why it had been so unsatisfying . |
| 10 | Would I had been so created ! |
| 11 | Out will go the flowery descriptions of aspects , views and outlook which have always been so derided by disappointed property viewers . |
| 12 | In some degree it is and a considerable number of products have been so harmonized . |
| 13 | And now David did n't want any part of it , and she 'd been so looking forward to their sharing in the discoveries . |
| 14 | The traditional Roman Republican portrait was also problematic , since it had been so abused by Caesar . |
| 15 | Pitt is obviously a big fan of his girlfriend 's talent and says he hopes to work with her a lot : ‘ Genius is n't a good word , because it 's been so abused , but … ’ |
| 16 | A bonus was that he had been so fascinated by his earlier experience that his confidence in hypnotherapy as a whole had grown , and he was far more willing to undergo treatment than he might otherwise have been . |
| 17 | Perhaps he had been so fascinated by the sight of the advancing waters that he had delayed his escape too long . |
| 18 | If only all those years ago she had not been so strapped by convention . |
| 19 | Not since England 's Derek Randall has a cricketer been so feted for his work in the field , and inevitably comparisons were being made with the legendary Colin Bland , his fellow countryman with the Exocet-like throwing arm . |
| 20 | which the House of Lords would have exercised if it had been asked to do so but had not in fact been so asked , Berry ( No. 2 ) would have been a very easy case for the Court of Appeal to deal with , but there is no indication that it found Berry ( No. 2 ) to be so simple . |
| 21 | He had been so butchered by shuriken stars that his corpse was a mere long mound of rashers glued by cinnabar . |
| 22 | A true representative is surely someone who is authorized to speak and act on behalf of those ( s ) he represents , and who has been so authorized by them . |
| 23 | In the same way , the ‘ Observer ’ , which acclaimed ‘ an evening of theatrical magic ’ , was the ‘ Quantock Observer ’ ; and the ‘ Mail ’ , who had ‘ rarely been so entertained ’ was the ‘ Western Mail ’ . |
| 24 | Well , it means quite a lot for the people who are living in Germany , especially the ones who are living in the East , because their economy has been so run down , it 's got to be put through a sort of shock treatment . |
| 25 | The Dark Elves of Naggaroth had been so weakened by Tethlis 's onslaught that they were afraid to harry the realm . |
| 26 | Few Yek were happy at sea , and a ship-borne invasion of Y'frike years earlier had come close to failure at one point because the reinforcements delivered to its shores had been so weakened by the effects of their voyage . |
| 27 | Joseph was alarmed by Monteith 's message , and bewildered that he could have been so misunderstood at the previous council . |
| 28 | Claudia 's smile vanished and she blinked away a tear at the thought of the poor farmers who had been so misunderstood . |
| 29 | I would n't have thought even he could have been so calculating . ’ |
| 30 | Railwaymen who worked in the area had been so overcome by a feeling of evil that pervaded a particular location that they refused to work the night-shift that involved going near the place in question . |