Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] so [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a fool he had been to waste so much time being " poetic " and not eating . |
| 2 | He had been given so many things to digest , not the least that it was possible Celia might have a father still living . |
| 3 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 4 | Olive had been expecting so many horrors that hearing the question she almost laughed with relief . |
| 5 | His nature had been over-mature and he had been focused so much on his career that he had never had a great deal of time for his family . |
| 6 | He had been hurt so much by life that he had to laugh at it and there was not a trace of bitterness in him . |
| 7 | While the others were talking of Hubert Molland , Peter had felt like a spectator at a play — as if he were watching a scene that had been rehearsed so many times that the actors spoke their lines mechanically , hardly caring about the meaning . |
| 8 | But new safety procedures had been introduced so such an event could never happen again . |
| 9 | But yesterday , as she nursed the baby she had been praying so many years for , she said : ‘ I never gave up hope . ’ |