Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to shake her head , but found she was pressed so hard against the stack behind her that movement was impossible . |
| 2 | Why has it been extended so far beyond the large-scale political contexts where it was needed , to permeate modern ideas about choice and freedom ? |
| 3 | Why , in Oxford , has it been left so far to the police , the voluntary sector and private sponsorship to try to cobble together a scheme ? |
| 4 | And he still can not resist , all these years later , a spiky dig — ‘ but most gratifying of all was that the journalists who condemned me were proved so utterly wrong ’ . |
| 5 | Why had they been killed so barbarously and so mysteriously ? |
| 6 | She 's upset it 's 'appened so soon , ’ Carrie went on . |