Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The MPs said the bank had to accept responsibility for its failure as BCCI 's supervisor , which had been demonstrated so clearly in the report by Sir Thomas Bingham , a High Court judge . |
| 2 | There was a knock on the door , and when I said " Come in " the middle-aged woman who 'd been treated so rudely by Lennis in the morning appeared hesitantly . |
| 3 | It was one of the reasons she had been promoted so fast . |
| 4 | He was one-eyed with a great purple birthmark across his face ; he must be the same fellow who had been closeted so secretly with Irvine at the Sea Barque in Leicester . |
| 5 | Naomi Headleand , who had been killed so tragically , so tragically young , when driving herself quietly and soberly home from Glyndebourne one night . |
| 6 | This was not the first false alarm designed to draw the police into an ambush , although no one had been ambushed so far . |
| 7 | Most crossed just for the experience of a freedom they had been denied so long . |
| 8 | He 'd been gone so long , without a word to her on his whereabouts , and now he was back and wanting to celebrate ! |
| 9 | ( Remember Russell 's chicken ( Russell , 1959 , p. 35 ) , whose true beliefs about the regularity with which it had been fed so far led it into a false belief about the security of its future . ) |