Example sentences of "been so [adj] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Their men had always been so butch before , and now you see very mannered , rather ‘ nelly ’ movements . |
| 2 | He had been so sure before — and anything would be better than a decision that he might later come to regret . |
| 3 | I do n't think I 've ever been so tired before or since as I was just that , that first year when we were probationer nurses . |
| 4 | And I began to be conscious of my unnatural state , and cry in the night sometimes for no real reason except that I wanted a man beside me — any man at all , I sometimes thought , and the little voice which had been so snooty before , now held its peace on the subject . |
| 5 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |