Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [vb pp] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been treated like a pin-cushion , but it seems to be working so far , ’ he said . |
| 3 | She went past him gathering up unsevered clusters of candles which had been hung like fruit above a tank . |
| 4 | Vehicles would then drive off , up the roller trackway Which had been laid like a silver ribbon across the soft shingle of the beach , and formed up in marshalling areas before moving on to their destination . |
| 5 | Besides , she had been caught like that by a man once before . |
| 6 | If we 'd been forced like myself I believe in a couple of years ' time , I will not be able to enjoy the pension fund that I 'm in at the moment we will have a problem , and we need to deal with that problem , and we need to raise the issue now and have a strategy , and I think it 's the G M B's to take a leading role in looking at this . |
| 7 | They 've been used like sectional housing . |
| 8 | Someone had arranged a scatter of sea-shore pebbles on a low trunk , trying for a random pattern to make it look as though they had been cast like dice . |
| 9 | The story of the RC — which will be given in more detail in another chapter — has still not been fully told , mainly because the documentation on it has been treated like the Crown Jewels . |
| 10 | Her grey hair had a dusty look , as though it had been powdered like a flunkey 's wig . |
| 11 | The Lord of the Rings would have offered fewer hostages to criticism if it had been written like that . |
| 12 | And erm slabs of it it had been cut like er it looked you know if you sort of cut lard or something like that . |
| 13 | It looked as though it had been woven like the baskets which were used to collect tea from the old plantations . |
| 14 | He had been called like this only three times before — to her knowledge . |
| 15 | It 's just a normal shop window — you know , with lights on and these statues and that , but it 's been done like it 's someone 's dining room . |
| 16 | It 's been made even more humiliating by the circumstances in which it 's been done like public rape . |
| 17 | It 's been twisted like Nelson 's dying words . |
| 18 | and erm they said er oh it 's been stolen like , rang our Wayne up , our Wayne went through to pick it up |
| 19 | It 's a long time since he 's been held like this . |