Example sentences of "been so [adj] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff there have been so impressed by Carina 's bravery that they have decided to try and help other youngsters like her . |
| 2 | Ferguson revealed : ‘ I have been so impressed by Danny 's form that I am now giving serious consideration about playing him in the League team . |
| 3 | I had been so horrified by Jason Purvis ' physical condition that , almost unwittingly , I had taken him in hand . |
| 4 | Yet her mind had been so parched by convention that had her full complement of guests not interacted in the manner of characters in a well-made play , set in a small hotel in Scandinavia , she would not have been able to cope . |
| 5 | ‘ What I fail to understand is why you should have been so distressed by Sofia 's fantasy . ’ |
| 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 | From Thomas Jones , who had been so frightened by Thelwall 's oratory , stories concerning the ‘ emigrant family ’ at Alfoxden passed first to Charles Mogg — a former servant at the house — and then to a cook in the household of Dr Daniel Lysons of Bath . |