Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most crossed just for the experience of a freedom they had been denied so long . |
| 2 | Only one bastion of prime importance to the city 's defence had been lost so far : Douaumont . |
| 3 | How she loathed this web that had been spun so swiftly round her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | Rockets were still falling on London , but Paris had been liberated so surely , surely , it was nearly all over ? |
| 8 | This was not the first false alarm designed to draw the police into an ambush , although no one had been ambushed so far . |
| 9 | His face had been battered so badly , his father did n't know it was his own son until he squeezed his hand and muttered ’ Dad . ’ |
| 10 | Naomi Headleand , who had been killed so tragically , so tragically young , when driving herself quietly and soberly home from Glyndebourne one night . |
| 11 | The MPs said the bank had to accept responsibility for its failure as BCCI 's supervisor , which had been demonstrated so clearly in the report by Sir Thomas Bingham , a High Court judge . |
| 12 | Her first two charges were a kitten that had been kicked so hard its front paw was broken and a dog who no-one would taken ‘ because it was so strange-looking . ’ |
| 13 | He noted that only a small part of the ancient Sicàn capital , covering an area 1.5 x 1 km , had been excavated so far . |
| 14 | ( Remember Russell 's chicken ( Russell , 1959 , p. 35 ) , whose true beliefs about the regularity with which it had been fed so far led it into a false belief about the security of its future . ) |
| 15 | He had no answer — save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability . |
| 16 | Documentary proof of 147 deaths had been found so far . |
| 17 | This stick had been used so often for beating me that it was now quite smooth . |
| 18 | According to the GFCCG , only $400 million of this amount had been disbursed so far [ see also p. 38010 ] . |
| 19 | Cossiga 's term of office was also due to expire shortly after the general election , the first time since 1948 that parliamentary and presidential elections had been held so closely together . |
| 20 | The allegation had been spoken so quietly that he doubted whether she had in fact heard it . |
| 21 | It was one of the reasons she had been promoted so fast . |
| 22 | She had not told him exactly where she had got all the money that had been spent so freely around this house , but of course he guessed . |