Example sentences of "[vb past] always [been] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 2 | It hurt her to lie , because she 'd always been so truthful all her life . |
| 3 | Lucinda , who had always been so obedient , speaking to her mother as if good manners had gone out of fashion ? |
| 4 | ‘ Their men had always been so butch before , and now you see very mannered , rather ‘ nelly ’ movements . |
| 5 | She lay propped up in pain and wondered when it was she had begun to loathe her body — she who had always been so proud of her figure and liked to pirouette in front of the glass after stepping from her clothes , admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs , the trim concavity of her belly , the neatness of her breasts , her skin with the sculptured texture of marble , her neck slender as the stem of a wineglass , and the bound-up hair in which fire lurked and leaped . |
| 6 | ‘ I lost my father before I signed for Rangers and his death had a devastating effect on me since we had always been so close , and not simply because he had been a professional goalkeeper in his time , ’ Goram said . |
| 7 | She had always been so bright , so capable , so desirable , a wonderful wife in every way — until a year ago . |
| 8 | One of the reasons she had survived in business was because she had always been so careful . |
| 9 | No more letters for many a year now from Miss Mitford , none from Miss Trepsack , none from Mrs Jameson , who had always been so kind to her . |
| 10 | She gave him a morsel of hope because he had always been so kind to her . |
| 11 | There was a showdown and in 1914 the relationship that had always been so ambivalent was destroyed . |
| 12 | And he had always been so meticulous about his appearance , almost to the point of vanity . |
| 13 | She had realized that she , who had always been so outgoing as a young singer , had been verging on the brink of obsession with her own failures , her own abilities or lack of them , with Gesner and his personal vendetta . |
| 14 | He had always been so scathing about psychiatrists and psychotherapists , emphatic that she was normal , that she would be just like any other mother once she had a child of her own . |
| 15 | He had always been so afraid of death . |
| 16 | He could not remember if his father had always been so wary , but he thought not . |