Example sentences of "had [been] so [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 2 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 3 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 4 | His whole soul had been so given over to dreams of leaving Loxford recently that he was startled to think his father might share them . |
| 5 | Coffin wished he had observed Edward Pitt more closely on that evening , but he had been so taken up with Letty . |
| 6 | He stood with his hands in his pockets and she realised she had been so taken up with her seemingly childish pursuit that she had not even heard the car arrive . |
| 7 | Kate had been so taken up with her own affairs that she 'd rather forgotten Ace 's part in the drama . |
| 8 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 9 | He had been so caught up in his thoughts he not heard the T'ang enter . |