Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here again I learnt to admire and like these people , with whom I had been so recently at war , and to see clearly both the differences and the similarities between people of different nationalities and the fantastic ability of people to respond to leadership tuned to their needs . |
| 2 | I was angry that humans should be subjected to such degradation and I realised just how lucky I had been so far . |
| 3 | At length these bitter fruits of sin , and a sense of dependency on his providence for the averting those dreadful consequences with which others were imminently threatened , brought me to the repentance and gave me a victory over those guilty passions by which I had been so long enslaved . |
| 4 | Although women were proportionately less successful than men in being elected ( 24% of them came first as against 35% of men ) , 1990 resumed the upward trend in female participation in local elections which had been so strangely set back in 1988 . |
| 5 | The Contagious Diseases Act which had been so bitterly opposed by feminists like Butler , had extended well beyond sanitary supervision of common prostitutes . |
| 6 | All these writers brought dramatic evidence ( some of which has since been more critically appraised ( Pinneau , 1950 ; Ainsworth , 1963 ) , that babies and young children need mothering — not only the mother 's presence , but the rocking , cuddling and lap play which had been so expressly forbidden — and that to deprive the baby of the natural expression of maternal warmth could prevent normal development of social relationships and permanently mar his personality . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Of the Liberty and Equality too long denied which had been so bloodily taken ? |
| 10 | Sadly indeed , the pendulum seems to have swung , as it does swing on the education clock , so far away from the New Primary Approach that even the integrated approach to lower primary teaching , which had been so wisely and effectively urged , is no longer reflected in the current Kenya syllabus . |
| 11 | A more efficient harness than the crude yoke , which had been so well suited for draught-oxen , was introduced about the ninth century . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ The Nightingale ’ provides a record of one of the evening walks shared by Coleridge and the Wordsworths which had been so much a part of their lives together . |
| 14 | And so , although Laura would have liked to put her university degree to some good use , she had been so madly in love with her husband that she had willingly bowed to his wishes . |
| 15 | She had been so terrifically busy lately that she had scarcely had time to go near the beach , except for odd moments snatched while she was shopping . |
| 16 | Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before . |
| 17 | But this time that feeling of being overpowered , which , in the past , she had been so helplessly prey to , was itself overcome by raw indignation . |
| 18 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 19 | Yet even here she had been so far weak , so far selfish , in concealing her violent and terrible feelings , her destructive misery , her rage . |
| 20 | She had been so deeply involved with her own emotions that she had lost the imaginative sense that is necessary if you are to see other people as independent entities , locked in their private worlds . |
| 21 | Doug Wilson , no doubt , thought Melissa , and young Godfrey Mellish who had been so firmly put in his place by Barney . |
| 22 | Would Merymose , who had been so badly let down by Akhenaten himself , be able to feel any sympathy at all ? |
| 23 | On the other hand if Wendy had deliberately misled Margaret and he himself were Svend , her chances of winning her sister away from his wiles were slender to the point of anorexia … especially if it was Suzie who had been so recently in his arms … |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He looked down angrily at the man who had been so uselessly injured . |
| 26 | Their meal last night had been delicious and the conversation had flowed and everything had been so very different from what she had expected . |
| 27 | How could Lisa know him so well , when she herself had been so naïvely blind ? |
| 28 | She did n't answer , for the simple reason that she could n't think of anything to say because the smile he had given her had been so totally unlike any other he had turned in her direction , so warm , and devastating , crinkling his eyes … |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | They had made love , and it had been so utterly different from his other experiences of sex that he thought something wonderful had happened . |