Example sentences of "[noun] had been so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until now its speed had been so great that it had grown into a ravening monster , capable not only of swallowing the Residency , but of gulping down the banqueting hall as well . |
| 2 | She had seen him only once during the past three years — two bleak weeks ago at the funeral , when her grief had been so great that she had barely registered his presence . |
| 3 | By the end of the 1970S the additions to the housing stock had been so considerable that arguments were increasingly heard that Britain had enough houses . |
| 4 | Tammuz had been so gentle that there 'd hardly been any pain , expertly coaxing each orifice to orgasm until Zambia felt SHe must die from sensory overload . |
| 5 | The whole episode had been so horrendous , so traumatic , that her father had chosen to wipe the board clean of it — on a superficial level , at least . |
| 6 | They had not ill-treated him in prison , but the fact that his future had been so very much in danger had had a tremendous influence on his morale . |
| 7 | It was no wonder , on reflection , that Lorimer had been so eager to spend time in Cleo 's irreverent company . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Her mind had been so full of Travis that she 'd forgotten all about her cousin and the jade figurine , and the recall now was an unpleasant shock . |
| 10 | Elizabeth 's distress had been so evident that even Lydia felt bound to take it seriously . |
| 11 | Very few of the battalion returned home as their losses had been so heavy , and Joe told the family he was now in a holding battalion . |
| 12 | His change of tactics had been so cunningly disguised that she had n't realised what was happening . |
| 13 | Raynor said softly , ‘ But you are so beautiful that men would die for you , ’ and Grainne looked up , startled , because the words had been so soft that she could not be sure she had heard them correctly , yet she knew she had . |
| 14 | Her fine words had been so much whistling in the dark . |
| 15 | All she was capable of doing was gazing at him , hardly aware of her own nakedness , while her eyes and her mind told her that , far from having to pay for women 's favours , if Rune Christensen had been so inclined he could have made a fortune as a gigolo . |
| 16 | Sydney Samuelson , the British Film Commissioner , whose father opened a cinema in Southport in 1910 , said his association with the industry had been so long that he remembered receiving a letter signed Wil Napoleon asking how to become an extra . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that the public purse had been so shamefully ripped off by the sales and the asset stripping , it was left to the ratepayers , through the local authority , to pick up the tab . |
| 18 | Swinton believed that the UK had left the conference on good ground because US demands had been so unlimited . |
| 19 | After Mark 's funeral Robyn 's lips had been so painful that she had hardly been able to speak or smile for days — but then that had suited her fine , still suited her , although no one guessed , except Anne perhaps . |
| 20 | Ellen had been so sympathetic earlier , had believed at once in her innocence when Isabel had told her what had happened . |
| 21 | And perhaps this was why Johnny had been so angry and jealous on the night of the theatre visit . |
| 22 | When Charles had first taken his brother to the summit Richard had been so young he still half-believed that a haggis was a little animal with one leg longer than the other , the better to run around mountainsides . |
| 23 | No wonder Piers had been so contemptuous of her when they had first met . |
| 24 | It was quiet , but perhaps that was because their entrance had been so noisy . |
| 25 | However , the damage to the capital 's generating equipment had been so severe that some Western estimates claimed that it would take a year to restore full supplies to the country . |
| 26 | She felt a flash of the excitement she had felt initially when this three weeks in Sardinia had been so unexpectedly sprung on her . |
| 27 | And that the ships had again been delayed : the long-awaited new ships commissioned from King Svein of Denmark , about which King Svein of Denmark had been so apologetic . |
| 28 | Luckily , Avril 's course work had been so good she only had to finish her dissertation to pass — which she did . |
| 29 | In Germany Romanesque architecture had been so successfully adopted , and suited the needs and character of the peoples so well , there was reluctance to change it . |
| 30 | Their lives had been so impoverished that even those elementary things had been taken from them . |