Example sentences of "had been so [adj] to [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She stared up at him , touched to tears by his thoughtfulness , he had come into her life such a short time ago and yet he had been so good to her , so strong and kind .
2 Theresa had been so good to her always , she could not do that to Theresa .
3 That which had been so familiar to me and accepted almost without thinking now took on a new and almost bizzare aspect .
4 I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me .
5 She had been so close to her mother it was as though part of her self had died .
6 She turned her face to the light , and silently , incoherently , not knowing which deity she addressed , she thanked the gods , who had been so kind to her , and to the husband she loved so much .
7 Diana felt a debt of gratitude to the woman who had been so kind to her during that first traumatic public engagement eighteen months before as well as an empathy with someone who , like her , had come into the royal world from the outside .
8 A reception was held at Handley Farm during which Nahum made an emotional speech , thanking everyone who had been so kind to him and Anna during their time among the ‘ gorgios ’ of Swinbrook .
9 The explanation which had been so clear to her when she shut the book by the pool now seemed only a thought , whimsical and without any solid foundation .
10 In fact he returned to Amsterdam , but in 1681 he agreed to serve as leader of the English Sephardi community which had been so generous to him years before .
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