Example sentences of "[verb] been so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | But this cold has been so bad today . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Even if she said so herself , she was barely recognisable as the young woman who 'd been so distraught just a short while ago . |
| 5 | I 'd been so quiet so that she would n't breathe fire on me . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | How , she wondered bemusedly , could she have been so trivial recently as to wish to upset these unexceptionable people . |
| 8 | She had been so certain then that ‘ love ’ would mean ‘ forever ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was sure that was why his love life had been so unsatisfactory ever since . |
| 12 | He had been so sure before — and anything would be better than a decision that he might later come to regret . |
| 13 | Ellen had been so sympathetic earlier , had believed at once in her innocence when Isabel had told her what had happened . |
| 14 | What had been so popular only three years ago was now conspicuous by its absence . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | " I 'm sorry I 've been so dreary lately , " she said . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It 's been so long now that I see the title as my right . ’ |
| 22 | He said : ‘ Everybody 's been so kind here . ’ |
| 23 | Nobody 's been so insistent yet you know . |