Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had [be] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | If it had been like our door , the existing door it would have stood rubbing down flatting down and er then . |
| 4 | For a while they had all pretended , but it had been like walking on broken glass . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was a long time since he had been like this . |