Example sentences of "[been] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katherine liked to believe that she was n't vindictive , but she did have certain rules , certain standards , both for her house and her business , and one of the reasons she had been so successful both in Dublin and now in London , was because she applied those rules rigorously . |
| 2 | ‘ Their men had always been so butch before , and now you see very mannered , rather ‘ nelly ’ movements . |
| 3 | The pressure from London , however , was unrelenting : ‘ Gould has been so clamorous lately ’ , Lear wrote to Jardine , ‘ at my not having done any Birds of Europe for him , that I must do a batch for him without further delay . ’ |
| 4 | He had been so sure before — and anything would be better than a decision that he might later come to regret . |
| 5 | She had been so certain then that ‘ love ’ would mean ‘ forever ’ . |
| 6 | Had he been so certain then he would n't still be guarding her name so zealously lest any whisper of their attachment got out and so caused Rosemary to decide never to see him again . |
| 7 | They look like Bahamas do n't they ? been so hot today if you do n't mi er and it makes you feel you know your age , when er it 's this hot weather . |
| 8 | It 's been so long now that I see the title as my right . ’ |
| 9 | As for commemorative musical events , some promoters jumped the gun by a year ; others have been so keen not to be upstaged that January has already seen dozens of concerts . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There had been so much else to do : such as leaving a brief note for Julie , and also contacting her office to explain the problem and that she 'd be in touch with them as soon as possible . |
| 12 | He was sure that was why his love life had been so unsatisfactory ever since . |
| 13 | Had he also been so serious already at that time ? |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose it seems like that , but it would have been silly to say no when he was prepared to come , after I 'd been so sad not to see him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had been so thrilled too at the discovery that her home for the next six months was to be such an unconventional one . |
| 17 | What had been so popular only three years ago was now conspicuous by its absence . |
| 18 | I might have worked it out sooner had she not been so prickly lately . ’ |
| 19 | He said : ‘ Everybody 's been so kind here . ’ |
| 20 | How , she wondered bemusedly , could she have been so trivial recently as to wish to upset these unexceptionable people . |
| 21 | Having risen strongly over the post-war period until that year , growth stopped ; there have been major fluctuations since , but the total has never been so high again . |
| 22 | She had never even asked if there was a photograph of her father , and she supposed they had been so careful not to upset her that they had never offered one . |
| 23 | He ca n't have been so crap otherwise he would n't have been picked in such a brilliant side but the mistakes I 've seen were just appalling , and in the most important games e.g. the first Chelsea 70 Cup Final game when the ball went right under his body . |
| 24 | Even if she said so herself , she was barely recognisable as the young woman who 'd been so distraught just a short while ago . |
| 25 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 26 | But this cold has been so bad today . |
| 27 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 28 | David Giles gained a deserved reputation among Palace fans after playing three superb games for Swansea City against us in the FA Cup 3rd round in January 1980 but , having joined us eighteen months later , he lacked the sparkle that had been so evident then . |
| 29 | It had n't been so wet earlier , when Benny had left for her first day at college . |
| 30 | Nobody 's been so insistent yet you know . |