Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [be] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was just about to ring you , dear , to see if we could pop over for the day , just to say goodbye — but I 've been so busy these last few days , what with one thing and another . |
| 2 | Oh I was meant to tell you but I 've been so busy . |
| 3 | it was really tasty , but I 've been So when do you go to see the nurse then ? |
| 4 | ‘ But I have been so busy . |
| 5 | Which leaves France ( lovely , but you 've been so often ) and Portugal . |
| 6 | But she had been so ashamed . |
| 7 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 8 | Not only that , but she had been so upset , she had clean forgotten to plug Galactic Outbursts . |
| 9 | But she had been so frightened , so shocked , so bewildered by the sudden invasion of her life . |
| 10 | It was just what Lady Merchiston had said that very first night , but she had been so appalled that she had not taken it in . |
| 11 | It would have given her an excuse to be searching for a particular room , but she had been so frightened … |
| 12 | He had known she was old but she had been so full of vitality , and interested in all the things going on in the world , that her death was a shock . |
| 13 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 14 | Now Blackburn pushing forward , sets away inside the penalty area but who 's been so convincing in the Shrewsbury goal tonight and made some important contributions , makes another one there , so alert , racing off the line to get there before could get a snip . |
| 15 | ‘ The plan was to have 100 people working by the end of 1992 but we 've been so successful that we achieved that by the end of 1989 , ’ McWilliams claims . |
| 16 | But there have been so many of these little mistakes , you see , that we 've been obliged to have a warrant made out . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have been trying to get the traders out for eight years , but there have been so many obstructions . ’ |
| 18 | This pistol was so heavy that he could not , of course , stick it in his belt ; it was all he could do to lift it with both hands But he had been so enthusiastic about it that he had willingly gone through the laborious loading of its honeycomb of barrels , one after another , and now it was ready to wreak destruction . |
| 19 | Coffin wished he had observed Edward Pitt more closely on that evening , but he had been so taken up with Letty . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But it had been so long since she 'd talked , really talked to anyone , that now she felt stiff and awkward . |
| 22 | I think I 'll stick with Lulu — I 'm not superstitious but it 's been so good for me up until now that I 'm not going to throw it away . |
| 23 | But it 's been so long . |