Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | With whom only months ago I had been like every other new recruit ; |
| 2 | She had been like a barrier between Jessamy and her husband , not particularly important but always there , irritating and chafing , like a stone in the shoe . |
| 3 | She had been like a lazy cat , refusing to wake up properly , a phenomenon that he had known in young girls before . |
| 4 | She had been like clay in the hands of a master craftsman , and the most unpalatable knowledge was that she had n't had the strength to resist that breathtaking attraction . |
| 5 | If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed . |
| 6 | Surinder , a Sikh woman , explained to me what it had been like coming to Britain in the sixties and finding a job in a sweat-shop soon after . |
| 7 | In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department : |
| 8 | When Emily asked him what it had been like then , his eyes filled with tears . |
| 9 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |
| 10 | This was travelling in style — as one Imperial Airways passenger put it : ‘ I was sorry to get out ; it had been like sitting in a comfortable friendly club . ’ |
| 11 | It was sad when it died ; sad because of the memory of what it had been like when there was still hope . |
| 12 | Maybe it had been like worship then , worship that begins in love and dovetails neatly into hate . |
| 13 | It had been like kicking the hell out of a two-hole outhouse ; a lot of shit had gotten out and the stink rode free on the four winds . |
| 14 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |
| 15 | It had been like a miracle . |
| 16 | It had been like this ever since she and Adam had escaped from Other world ; she seemed to have no strength left to decide anything . |
| 17 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |
| 18 | How did she know it had been like that ? |
| 19 | That would n't be easy ; even now he was beginning to remember what it had been like when he 'd been small and afraid of the dark , unable to sleep without a nightlight . |
| 20 | For a while they had all pretended , but it had been like walking on broken glass . |
| 21 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 22 | He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago . |
| 23 | It had been like this after the barbecue , she recalled . |
| 24 | It had been like this last night . |
| 25 | Clarke had said the same thing and she had tried desperately to comply but it had been like trying to lay hold of darting butterflies . |
| 26 | Oh Ven , she wanted to cry — it had been like that for him too ! |
| 27 | Mr Kerrigan then questioned Mr Mackie about what it had been like working at the Kenway depot at the time he alleged drugs were being taken . |
| 28 | If it had been like our door , the existing door it would have stood rubbing down flatting down and er then . |
| 29 | Barth himself later said that he had been like a man who , tripping in the darkness of the church tower , had accidentally caught hold of the bell-rope to steady himself and alarmed the whole countryside . |
| 30 | He had been like an animal when they found him . |