Example sentences of "[pron] have not been [adv] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't been up so late since Studio 54 closed , ’ confessed socialite Nan Kempner during a recent encounter . |
| 2 | I have n't been round so I ca n't have it ! |
| 3 | I think I saw Edinburgh Castle I have n't been in so |
| 4 | It was only when she was reasonably sober , when , say , she woke up in the morning , head throbbing , tongue parched , that she suspected in retrospect that she had n't been quite so rationally conscious of those selfsame thoughts and actions … |
| 5 | And on the bus to Victoria she began to wish she had not been quite so rash in offering to visit John . |
| 6 | As I recall , he had not been initially so preoccupied with the peace treaty when it was drawn up at the end of the Great War , and I think it is fair to say that his interest was prompted not so much by an analysis of the treaty , but by his friendship with Herr Karl-Heinz Bremann . |
| 7 | Our Pam said he had n't been there so . |
| 8 | The only time that he wished he had n't been quite so deeply involved in the skin trade was when the past came to visit . |
| 9 | Surely he had n't been quite so irritating as a watchkeeping officer in the Lanark ? |