Example sentences of "because [pron] had [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
| 2 | These doubts , hard to pin down , because reason easily disposed of them all , crystallised around the fact that Comrade Andrew too often smelled of drink ; she could not bring herself to criticise him for his partiality to the goose-girl , because she had learned so long ago and so thoroughly simply to switch off in this area . |
| 3 | ‘ You seem very well-informed , ’ said Mrs. Fanshawe , pleased because she had succeeded so well in pulling herself together . |
| 4 | Or simply because they had come so close to rescuing him ? |
| 5 | The pill was all the more bitter for Woosnam because he had begun so well . |