Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 2 | as I told you before I 'd been like it before and it |
| 3 | With whom only months ago I had been like every other new recruit ; |
| 4 | Baffled Lilly , from Anfield , Liverpool , added : ‘ I 've been like this for as long as I can remember . |
| 5 | I 've been like mad mad busy w one thing and another . |
| 6 | I 've been like that all day . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been like a little kid . |
| 8 | I 've been like it since I were a lad I 'ad a operation for adenoids and summat went wrong " |
| 9 | I 've smoked more while I 've been like this |
| 10 | I 've been , I 've been like this for three nights . |
| 11 | This crypt-room is so stuffy , the walls squeeze in , I 'm listening for him as I write , the thoughts I have are like bad drawings . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia . |
| 13 | somebody at work , what 's a matter love you 've been like this since you 've got up have n't you ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had been like a lazy cat , refusing to wake up properly , a phenomenon that he had known in young girls before . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 20 | She 's been like it all weekend I think . |
| 21 | she 's been like that for two days now |
| 22 | But er but er yeah , so but like , she 's been saying to me cos she 's been thinking about whether she is or not she er she 's been like like everywhere there 's babys and prams and everywhe , on the telly and everything , do you know what I mean ? |
| 23 | I said you know what she 's been like with this young girl at college you thought |
| 24 | I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’ |
| 25 | Oh , we 've been like this all , Amy and Richard tried to tidy it up . |
| 26 | we 've been like that a long while , so a lot longer wo n't matter |
| 27 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 28 | If such is the character of these places now , what must they have been like when both men and livestock could only get around them by boat , and parishes such as Dogdyke in Lincolnshire had in the eighteenth century ‘ not two houses communicable for whole winters round ’ . |
| 29 | But what it is er they 've been like that for years , like , in the bathrooms |
| 30 | He has been like this for around 10 months , and feeds normally . |