Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have been like " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’ |
| 5 | And there 'd been like a half door going to the shop like there you know . |
| 6 | JB : I painted mostly in my own time , and it 's been like that all along . |
| 7 | If it had been like our door , the existing door it would have stood rubbing down flatting down and er then . |
| 8 | For a while they had all pretended , but it had been like walking on broken glass . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've smoked more while I 've been like this |
| 11 | It was a long time since he had been like this . |
| 12 | as I told you before I 'd been like it before and it |