Example sentences of "[verb] be so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Jennifer I think it 's er viburnum lanterna and it 's quite an interesting er bush because it was in the sixteenth century a er gave the tree its poetic name as he frequently come across it in old drove roads er over and across the old drove roads in the chalk downs of er from Winchester to Epsom and London but sorry about this it can grow to fifteen feet and in May it opens up its cluster of white flowers and it 's really quite an attractive thing but the berries I do n't think are so attractive so I think erm |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | But this cold has been so bad today . |
| 4 | Has being so short really been a major factor in how you 've lived your life ? |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Even if she said so herself , she was barely recognisable as the young woman who 'd been so distraught just a short while ago . |
| 7 | I 'd been so quiet so that she would n't breathe fire on me . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | How , she wondered bemusedly , could she have been so trivial recently as to wish to upset these unexceptionable people . |
| 10 | She had been so certain then that ‘ love ’ would mean ‘ forever ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was sure that was why his love life had been so unsatisfactory ever since . |
| 14 | He had been so sure before — and anything would be better than a decision that he might later come to regret . |
| 15 | Ellen had been so sympathetic earlier , had believed at once in her innocence when Isabel had told her what had happened . |
| 16 | What had been so popular only three years ago was now conspicuous by its absence . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She had been so thrilled too at the discovery that her home for the next six months was to be such an unconventional one . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | " I 'm sorry I 've been so dreary lately , " she said . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It 's been so long now that I see the title as my right . ’ |
| 24 | He said : ‘ Everybody 's been so kind here . ’ |
| 25 | Nobody 's been so insistent yet you know . |