Example sentences of "had been so " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been so lucky with the weather ; a clear sky , and a soft breeze that kept everyone comfortable . |
| 2 | That which had been so familiar to me and accepted almost without thinking now took on a new and almost bizzare aspect . |
| 3 | Jay could n't remember why it had been so important to see her . |
| 4 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
| 5 | On arriving he missed that female intimacy which had been so important a part of his life for many years . |
| 6 | Catering that had been so under threat in the later seventies suddenly attracted new importance ; indeed , the single Manchester Pullman that looked almost certain to be a casualty of further standardisation in the eighties was joined by a bevy of Pullmans if only Pullman service on HSTs and Mark 3s . |
| 7 | Brought in early last year , Max had been so badly kicked by a sadistic owner that most of his bodily organs were in the wrong places . |
| 8 | ‘ Some of these men had been so badly damaged , both physically and mentally , by their experiences on the battlefield and in POW camps that their lives were ruined . ’ |
| 9 | But , he said , they should never be seduced into thinking their policies had been so effective that there was no risk of relapse . |
| 10 | The deputy commander of the first artillery battalion reported that all its cell members had been so busily engaged on operations amongst the civilian population that there had been no meeting for over a month ( they were probably occupied in some of the unsavoury tasks noted earlier by our peasant soldier and his mother ) . |
| 11 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 12 | Swinton believed that the UK had left the conference on good ground because US demands had been so unlimited . |
| 13 | She felt more at her ease realising that long ago had they had probably minded bitterly that the Petheringtons ' little daughter had been so much more extraordinary than their own . |
| 14 | The H16 engine was designed for the 3-litre formula that came into effect in 1966 and was developed from mating a pair of the 1.5-litre V8s that had been so successful in the preceding years . |
| 15 | Identifying the girl had been so extremely distasteful . |
| 16 | Her husband , who had been so attentive in the sunshine , was back on home territory , in the place he loved best on earth , surrounded by the people and the activities he loved most . |
| 17 | The Prince had had an inkling of what was to come in Wales , when the crowds had been so eager to see Diana that they could scarcely hide their disappointment if Charles and Diana took one side of the street each and they were on the side of the street he took . |
| 18 | He had been there so long , had been so doubtful — and , until recently , so indifferent — about seeing the outside again that the mention of discharge took him by surprise . |
| 19 | Although there was a loud banging noise , it had been so regular that both of us had incorporated it into our dreams . |
| 20 | This whole experience had been so fast and furious for me I did n't know what I was doing any more . |
| 21 | ‘ How was I supposed to know ? ’ he said , instantly aware that he had acted too hastily because he had been so angry with her . |
| 22 | As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself . |
| 23 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 24 | In the Far East , where Britain had been so successful in defeating Communist terrorism , there was also growing instability . |
| 25 | Rather to the surprise of my new employers , since I had been so eager to work for them , I told them I should not be able to start for a fortnight ( I needed to recover , being exhausted by my burden of guilt ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | and that had been so cruelly denied to Isaac by Jacob himself in his youth . |
| 28 | Mungo had been so unnerved by the feather and the peculiar note that it had taken him several moments to decide on the next move ; not the next major move in his life , but literally the act of moving an arm or a leg . |
| 29 | Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ . |
| 30 | Old Doctor Tinsley had been so much more sympathetic . |