Example sentences of "[vb past] been so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |
| 2 | The deputy commander of the first artillery battalion reported that all its cell members had been so busily engaged on operations amongst the civilian population that there had been no meeting for over a month ( they were probably occupied in some of the unsavoury tasks noted earlier by our peasant soldier and his mother ) . |
| 3 | Brought in early last year , Max had been so badly kicked by a sadistic owner that most of his bodily organs were in the wrong places . |
| 4 | From the previous year he had been so badly affected by osteoarthritis that his mobility had become very restricted . |
| 5 | She felt a flash of the excitement she had felt initially when this three weeks in Sardinia had been so unexpectedly sprung on her . |
| 6 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 7 | The rest had been so well prepared for work by their previous sixteen years of socialisation that they found few problems . |
| 8 | She no longer provided him with a defence against his own yearning for safety which had been so well hidden behind his off-hand behaviour . |
| 9 | A more efficient harness than the crude yoke , which had been so well suited for draught-oxen , was introduced about the ninth century . |
| 10 | She had always told him how proud she was of him , that he should work so hard to support his son in a far-off country and how one day she would tell Oreste it was due to his father 's efforts that he had been so well looked after . |
| 11 | He was still walking within the rhythmic pulse of an old dream , a vision that had been so wantonly interrupted by the person from Porlock . |
| 12 | Doug Wilson , no doubt , thought Melissa , and young Godfrey Mellish who had been so firmly put in his place by Barney . |
| 13 | The Contagious Diseases Act which had been so bitterly opposed by feminists like Butler , had extended well beyond sanitary supervision of common prostitutes . |
| 14 | First of all , there was the problem that had been at the root of France 's defeat in 1940 — the decay of the republican state , which had been so powerfully symbolized by the Third Republic 's abdication to Pétain in July 1940 . |
| 15 | The death-bed thus prefigured the decisive struggle for possession of the soul , which would take place on Judgement Day and which had been so vividly depicted in mediaeval murals and missals . |
| 16 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 17 | His appearance , conjured up by the magic of Central Office , had a curiously calming effect , and it was not long before those who had been so rudely awakened by Tebbit 's demarche , to say nothing of the sight of so many Scottish rumps , were , once again safe in the arms of Morpheus . |
| 18 | Her husband , Norman , who works in the flatshop at Royal Tuscan , said : ‘ Dottie had been so much comforted by one of these special beds in her last weeks . |
| 19 | By June 1318 the forest of Selwood in Wiltshire had been so much reduced in size that the warden 's farm of £10 a year could no longer be paid , and the Forest of Dean had been reduced by a quarter before the end of the reign . |
| 20 | Crown lands had been so much reduced in size that the most efficient management could not have increased their yield to the point at which they might have made any significant impact on royal finances . |
| 21 | and that had been so cruelly denied to Isaac by Jacob himself in his youth . |
| 22 | Earth sciences , because they had been so recently assessed in the UGC Earth Science Review , were excluded from this rating table , but the ratings for the category ‘ Other Physical Sciences ’ , for those Universities also listed in Table 3 , are : |
| 23 | He blamed himself for crediting her with a maturity she did not possess , and regretted that his attempts to assist her studies had been so tragically misinterpreted by her . |