Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] so [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 2 | The population has been increasing so fast in most Latin American countries that despite out-migration , the numbers of the peasantry are still on the increase . |
| 3 | I was determined to get him , and must have been concentrating so intently on his movements that , like a fool , I forgot to look in the mirror until it was too late . |
| 4 | The conclusion could hardly be avoided that the Führer , who only a short while before had been speaking so confidently of imminent victory , had been mistaken . |
| 5 | For her to have gone off with him like that showed she must still care for him and yet she had been looking so adoringly at Fernando on the yacht . |
| 6 | Things had been moving so slowly in recent months that some Conservative MPs , like Robert Adley , the railway buff who chairs the Tories ' backbench transport committee , were convinced that privatisation was about to be dropped altogether . |
| 7 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |
| 8 | The simple sieves we have been considering so far in this chapter are all examples of single-step selection . |
| 9 | ‘ Roman and I have been working so hard on this business fair , he 's promised to take me away with him when it 's over ! ’ |
| 10 | The assumptions we have been making so far about intensional relations and their combination and representation seem to deny us the chance of distinguishing two different structures here . |
| 11 | Each features a very familiar rhyme accompanied by the kind of lively , funny pictures Colin and Jacqui Hawkins have been doing so well for years . |
| 12 | As we know , the organisation of business er is n't their strong point at the moment , whether its been run ragged by their own rebels or clumsily breaking down the usual channels , seems our non-cooperation policy is merely an extension of the one that 's been working so effectively inside the Conservative party under the present Prime Minister . |