Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been so " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ellen had been so sympathetic earlier , had believed at once in her innocence when Isabel had told her what had happened . |
| 4 | And perhaps this was why Johnny had been so angry and jealous on the night of the theatre visit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She felt a flash of the excitement she had felt initially when this three weeks in Sardinia had been so unexpectedly sprung on her . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He understood , as well , why Fenella had been so chary of telling the entire truth . |
| 9 | Fergus had been so intensely aware of every separate part of her that it had been a pain and a torment . |
| 10 | He said the ‘ green ’ scheme to upgrade caravan and leisure parks around Towyn had been so successful , a similar approach may be adopted in other tourism sectors in Wales . |
| 11 | Obviously Alain had been so sure she would come that he had even warned the servants . |
| 12 | By June 1318 the forest of Selwood in Wiltshire had been so much reduced in size that the warden 's farm of £10 a year could no longer be paid , and the Forest of Dean had been reduced by a quarter before the end of the reign . |
| 13 | I think that was why Uncle Hamish had been so delighted when I 'd come to stay with the family , and also — perhaps — why he was in no hurry to help effect a reconciliation between me and my father . |
| 14 | Old Doctor Tinsley had been so much more sympathetic . |
| 15 | Caro had been so delighted by the job ( spotted by Sue , an advert in the local paper ) that she could feel no sympathy for her mother 's whinings , and the Sunday visits had been stiff with hostile silences . |
| 16 | The thing between himself and Isobel had been so long ago he had difficulty remembering it , and it had been a mistake from the first . |
| 17 | My few months of married life with Helen had been so much lotus eating . |
| 18 | Snow had come very early in the year , but all of October had been so intensely cold that no one was really surprised to see such a heavy fall , although there had been no sign of it when they entered the hall . |
| 19 | The Dark Elves of Naggaroth had been so weakened by Tethlis 's onslaught that they were afraid to harry the realm . |
| 20 | They were classic , and whatever had been done to McAllister had been so severe and unwanted that unless she was cured soon she would be stricken for life , all her bright spirit running to waste . |
| 21 | Between 1966 and 1968 the consensus of which Johnson had been so proud was rapidly disintegrating . |
| 22 | Her husband , Norman , who works in the flatshop at Royal Tuscan , said : ‘ Dottie had been so much comforted by one of these special beds in her last weeks . |
| 23 | In the Far East , where Britain had been so successful in defeating Communist terrorism , there was also growing instability . |
| 24 | People in Bohemia had been so full of self-confidence that they were taken by surprise . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Kate had been so proud of her . |
| 27 | Kate had been so taken up with her own affairs that she 'd rather forgotten Ace 's part in the drama . |
| 28 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 29 | It had been a beastly day and Caroline had been so silly at supper . |
| 30 | I got the impression that Jean-Claude had been so certain that his relationship with his sister was the most singular she would ever make , that the mere fact of their not living under the same roof would do nothing to erode what they had together . |