Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lord of the Rings would have offered fewer hostages to criticism if it had been written like that . |
| 2 | He had been called like this only three times before — to her knowledge . |
| 3 | For standing on the , on the seats you see , which I mean my father was right he 'd got the experience to know that several men had been drowned like that . |
| 4 | Besides , she had been caught like that by a man once before . |
| 5 | She had bunked off work all this week , Joanie had rung in and said she had ‘ flu ’ , and every day had been spent like this . |
| 6 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |