Example sentences of "[pron] have been like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With whom only months ago I had been like every other new recruit ; |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been like a little kid . |
| 3 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had been like a lazy cat , refusing to wake up properly , a phenomenon that he had known in young girls before . |
| 7 | And having confided in her , she discussed her troubles with Don Burrell , the Canadian with whom she had stayed when on a school exchange to the States and who had been like a second father since the death of her own . |
| 8 | In fact , you 're a girl who 's going places — once you 've untied yourself from this man who 's been like a millstone around your neck for the last four years . |
| 9 | And there 'd been like a half door going to the shop like there you know . |
| 10 | It had been like a miracle . |
| 11 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And Sam Spiro — he had been like a lost soul since his wife died . |
| 14 | He had been like an animal when they found him . |
| 15 | ‘ These last few days it 's been like a kind of magic carpet — we 've been so close , living on a heightened plane . |
| 16 | It 's been like a week . |
| 17 | The next step of adopting a coach as a father figure is more dubious , however , though a great many sportsmen would describe their trainers or managers as Maurice Hope describes Terry Lawless : ‘ He 's been like a father to me ; no , more than a father , actually . ’ |