Example sentences of "he [verb] been so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 2 | On a wall in the showhouse at Les 's flagship Bryn Colwyn estate at Penmaen Head , Colwyn Bay , are the awards which he has been so proud to win over the years . |
| 3 | He has been so accurate , some claim , that they have dubbed him the ‘ historian of the future ’ . |
| 4 | The distinctive orange , yellow and black bike was a Christmas present for the youngster , but he has been so weak because of chemotherapy treatment that he has been able unable to ride it . |
| 5 | He has been so encouraging . |
| 6 | The writer of this book has to confess that so far he has been so hidebound by tradition that he has not yet brought himself to write key-signatures for the horns , but he admits that the only argument in favour of this is that the lack of signature acts as a guide to the conductor 's eye in spotting the horn parts in the score . |
| 7 | He has been so busy in the last two or three months that he has been forced to temporarily stop promoting his products . |
| 8 | He has been so kind , ’ she said . |
| 9 | The RoboCop is basically a ‘ man in a suit ’ ; but in the story he has been so reconstituted that even his skin , seen only at his face and not much there until he takes off his helmet , is supposed to be toughened like plastic . |
| 10 | He 'd been so disinterested in her progress during six years of primary school that he 'd only ever visited the school once . |
| 11 | There had been so much to admire in Ewan , even though he 'd been so self-centred . |
| 12 | He 'd been so adamant in Vienna about not looking ridiculous with the ‘ fat old Frau ’ and now he was suggesting productions that were totally unsuitable . |
| 13 | He 'd been so gentle that morning when he must have seen he had hurt her feelings , and she felt good inside that she had seen the more gentle , considerate side of him . |
| 14 | He 'd been so sickly from birth and Sarah ached with sadness to see her tiny stepbrother losing hold on life . |
| 15 | He 'd been so lucky , so figging lucky . |
| 16 | He 'd been so angry ; she had never seen him quite that way before . |
| 17 | No wonder he 'd been so eager to sign her on as Anna 's companion . |
| 18 | He 'd been so lovely , and her shoulder still burned where he 'd put a hand on it after the game . |
| 19 | And after he 'd been so kind , too . |
| 20 | He 'd been so busy that afternoon that he 'd completely forgotten to call her . |
| 21 | And that was why he 'd been so bitter on the subject of rings . |
| 22 | Would he have been so terrible as a stepfather ? ’ |
| 23 | Given the brief span of their acquaintance , the even briefer time they had actually spent together , how could he have been so presumptuous as to imagine that she would wish to fly out and join him at the Plaza ? |
| 24 | How could he have been so foolish as to stretch out away from the shade of the trees ? |
| 25 | How could he have been so shortsighted , so absolutely thick as to worry about commitment when the girl he was worried about committing to was Alexandra ? |
| 26 | He fell silent , but his face was shadowed by the memory of a very personal anguish , and Maria could be grateful for the merciful ignorance that had carried her through those same six years in which he had been so haunted . |
| 27 | He had been so proud and happy to be returning to his family with the news of his impending marriage , yet now he was leaving home as an outcast . |
| 28 | He had been so proud of that sauce now so stale and unappetising . |
| 29 | Long before Quex died , however , Edward Carrington had discovered better reasons than inter-service rivalry and backstabbing to make him doubt the quality of the organization he had been so proud to join . |
| 30 | His size still shocked her , when he had been so spare at her mother 's wedding . |