Example sentences of "had be so [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sister Cas. was not often bloodyminded , and this was the first time she had been so with me . |
| 2 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 3 | We tended to think of Sandy as a liability because he had been so over the past years . |
| 4 | Catering that had been so under threat in the later seventies suddenly attracted new importance ; indeed , the single Manchester Pullman that looked almost certain to be a casualty of further standardisation in the eighties was joined by a bevy of Pullmans if only Pullman service on HSTs and Mark 3s . |
| 5 | The main thrust of all the writings was to show that Bonapartism was for France the natural system of government and that it had been so since the Revolution . |
| 6 | And it had been so since the day that she had turned to leave Sycorax at the hot springs . |
| 7 | It was the first time she had been so near a man with sweet breath and the scent of success about him . |
| 8 | I had been so in love with her , and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling . |
| 9 | At any rate it had been so in the past when Elmwood had been a private school . |
| 10 | This had been so in Emma 's day , and was so still , for once or twice Ruth had asked Rachaela some arithmetical question which Rachaela also found impossible to answer . |
| 11 | He had been so throughout his school life and through college , managing to only just scrape through by handing in work started the night before it was due in . |