Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | they 'd been ca they 'd been called so many times you know when he was low . |
| 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 | He 'd been gone so long , without a word to her on his whereabouts , and now he was back and wanting to celebrate ! |
| 4 | Erm and that was just an excu h him being expelled for driving someone into town was simply an excuse because he 'd been caught so many other times . |
| 5 | but , if there 's , if there 's erm , if there 's set if there 's a settlement like that there 'd been settled so much on her |
| 6 | Furthermore , as soon as he did turn up , Maradona unwisely told the expectant press corps that he thought the World Cup draw had been fixed so that Italy would find itself in an easy group . |
| 7 | Furthermore , as soon as he did turn up , Maradona unwisely told the expectant press corps that he thought the World Cup draw had been fixed so that Argentina would be in a difficult group and Italy in an easy group . |
| 8 | Most crossed just for the experience of a freedom they had been denied so long . |
| 9 | The top of it had been raised so that Bella , propped up against two pillows , her face grey against their whiteness , was almost in a sitting position . |
| 10 | Only one bastion of prime importance to the city 's defence had been lost so far : Douaumont . |
| 11 | The activity had been planned so that when children helped one another they would be using principles applied in problem-solving on one of the tasks and applying them in a new form on the other . |
| 12 | He also explained to us that our stay in China had been planned so that we should spend 4 weeks in Peking , and 3 weeks in the other three cities . |
| 13 | How she loathed this web that had been spun so swiftly round her . |
| 14 | The uppers had come completely away from the soles of the toes and the treads had been worn so smooth he had taken a hot knife to them in an attempt at a retread ! |
| 15 | Nevertheless , Dr Michel Halbouty , chairman of the Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources , told the meeting that the findings indicated that as much oil and gas remained to be found in the Pacific as had been discovered so far worldwide . |
| 16 | She thought of herself as intelligent and had been called so . |
| 17 | But the police had been called so everything had to be done by the book . |
| 18 | The rule had been amended so that nominations for the Committee were restricted to full male or female members of five years standing , and where ladies are concerned , were not to exceed in number the direct ratio to the numerical strength of their respective section . |
| 19 | And since that state of stability had been calculated so that it would not commence deterioration until the next inspection had been completed , Rostov had delegated command of the bridge to Yuan , and had elected to watch the performance of his technical officers at close quarters . |
| 20 | Informations were listed for hearing but the justices were not satisfied that they had been served so further summonses were issued . |
| 21 | The obvious thing was to jot down quickly what had been said so that the speechreader would be ‘ on beam ’ and laugh too . |
| 22 | In the second painting , every irregularity in her figure had been emphasised so that the girl stretching outwards from a balcony to pick a ripe , hanging fruit appeared as misshapen as a fairy-tale goblin . |
| 23 | He had been given so many things to digest , not the least that it was possible Celia might have a father still living . |
| 24 | thank you and we see here that erm one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds had been claimed , that one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds thirteen had been received so the insurance cover had paid |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | To Harriet Sally had become a surrogate mother and after she had married Hugo that position had been strengthened so that Harriet had felt secure and loved , never questioning her importance to the people who were important to her . |
| 27 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |
| 28 | He did not as yet know all the details of how they had died , and what had gone before , but rumour had it that no great physical strength had been involved so that you could not rule out a woman as the killer . |
| 29 | The NcoI-EcoRI adaptor oligonucleotides had been synthesized so as to maintain the 140k peptide reading frame ( which is initiated at the ATG of the NcoI site ) . |
| 30 | A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " . |