Example sentences of "she had [adv] [be] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why had Charlotte Ladram decided to involve him when she had previously been so eager to exclude him ? |
| 2 | ‘ She had very serious abdominal wounds and one doctor told me she would have died if she had n't been so young and healthy , ’ said Mr Kelly . |
| 3 | She knew it was best , but she could n't help wondering what would have happened if she had n't been so proud on Christmas Day . |
| 4 | She would gladly have refused to go with him altogether if she had n't been so curious about the man . |
| 5 | ‘ All he needs is someone to take care of him , ’ she would always say of Seth , but lately she had n't been so sure . |
| 6 | It seemed unlikely that anyone would choose to live in this out-of-the-way place without some form of transport — if she had n't been so nervous , that would have occurred to her earlier , she thought wryly . |
| 7 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 8 | If she had n't been so upset , it would almost have been funny . |
| 9 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 10 | She might have been amused if she had n't been so annoyed . |
| 11 | She had n't been so lucky . |
| 12 | The Empress had ordered her to do whatever was necessary in order to leave with fitzAlan , and if she had n't been so angry and confused that she had forgotten the threat to Edmund she would have complied . |
| 13 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |
| 14 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 15 | Mildred would have been absolutely thrilled by it all if she had not been so terrified of the task ahead of her . |
| 16 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 17 | Later she was to wish that she had neither been so deceitful , nor so colourful , but at the time excitement and expediency combined carried her away . |
| 18 | She thought she had never been so tired . |
| 19 | She had never been so close to a young man before . |
| 20 | The other women had daughters to help them , she had never been so lucky . |
| 21 | Fabia queried in surprise , certain that she had never been so rude . |
| 22 | She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly . |
| 23 | She had never been so scared in all her life . |
| 24 | She had never been so glad to see her mother that morning . |
| 25 | She knew from his voice that he had seen the news too , and she had never been so glad to hear a friendly voice . |
| 26 | Yet , while she enjoyed it all , liked Pat , felt she had never been so happy , she was thinking : Yes , but this is how people behave when they have decided to go away : in a sense she has already left . |
| 27 | She had always been so bright , so capable , so desirable , a wonderful wife in every way — until a year ago . |
| 28 | One of the reasons she had survived in business was because she had always been so careful . |