Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] be so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs . |
| 2 | I could not see the female but , as I was raised to their shoulders , I caught a glimpse of my happy home , that cave where Elsbeth and I had been so content . |
| 3 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
| 4 | The death-bed thus prefigured the decisive struggle for possession of the soul , which would take place on Judgement Day and which had been so vividly depicted in mediaeval murals and missals . |
| 5 | These problems suddenly appeared quite separately from those dietary concerns about fats , fibre , sugar and salt which arose from the COMA report in 1984 , and which have been so widely used in food manufacturers ' advertising claims . |
| 6 | Ah , hands always go up when I 'm about to finish the programme and you 've been so |
| 7 | ‘ I think they only knew this morning , and you 've been so busy being cross — ’ |
| 8 | He reminded Sharpe of Jules , the miller 's son from Seleglise , who used to help Sharpe with Lucille 's flock of sheep and who had been so excited when Napoleon returned to France . |
| 9 | A true representative is surely someone who is authorized to speak and act on behalf of those ( s ) he represents , and who has been so authorized by them . |
| 10 | And now David did n't want any part of it , and she 'd been so looking forward to their sharing in the discoveries . |
| 11 | Roman had come up behind her without warning , and she had been so engrossed with the window display that her senses , which usually warned her if he was near , had failed . |
| 12 | After all , before he had proposed , she had not seen so very much of Havvie , and she had been so flattered that it had not struck her how banal his conversation was , and how limited . |
| 13 | And she has been so taken by her findings she has put them all down on paper . |
| 14 | Their meal last night had been delicious and the conversation had flowed and everything had been so very different from what she had expected . |
| 15 | ‘ Our last two albums for them , ‘ Peace In Our Time ’ and ‘ No Place Like Home ’ , were stodgy affairs , and there had been so many hassles . |
| 16 | And there had been so much coverage , a retrial would have been impossible . |
| 17 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |
| 18 | Kelly and he had been so calm and businesslike , and yet … |
| 19 | He had thought that that would be the last he would hear of her , but a few days later she had sent him her first piece , and he had been so impressed by it that he had printed it and asked her to write more for him . |
| 20 | ‘ However , in fairness to him , after we 'd done ‘ The Daleks ’ and it had been so successful , Donald Wilson said to me , ‘ I clearly do n't know anything about this series , and you do , so I 'll leave you alone ’ , which was nice of him . ’ |
| 21 | And it had been so since the day that she had turned to leave Sycorax at the hot springs . |
| 22 | He 'd come round and it had been so nice , and we seemed to be so comfortable with each other , not just in bed you know , and it did n't occur to me we would n't do things together and see each other . |
| 23 | And it had been so good ! |
| 24 | They had made love , and it had been so utterly different from his other experiences of sex that he thought something wonderful had happened . |
| 25 | And er , we get a panel of young engineers and a panel of school teachers and they actually erm go to a school , they sit down , look at the national curriculum and decide which parts they can actually participate in and it 's been so successful at the moment , realise the trouble is we 're somewhere about five thousand , six hundred secondary schools in the U K you realise it 's a mammoth task ! |
| 26 | I 'm just a little tense about the party , and it 's been so hot ! ’ |
| 27 | Work is ‘ split off ’ very often from the rest of life and it has been so since the beginnings of industrialisation . |
| 28 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |