Example sentences of "had [adv] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Reagan presidency , the Guardian kept blaming his errors on age , and perforce , there I was again with another angry letter — ‘ Son of Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — pointing out that , like it or not , Ronald Reagan had always been like that , making the same kind of statement and endorsing the same brand of policies . |
| 2 | Mick had always been like a man to her . |
| 3 | Julie and I had never fallen out before , and Barbie had always been like a big sister to me , too . |
| 4 | Charles remembered that Gerald had always been like that . |
| 5 | It had always been like that . |
| 6 | I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that . |
| 7 | The two , who had once been like brothers , went out for a drive along the back road between Darlington and Sedgefield . |
| 8 | In the past Stephen had sometimes been like this after being out late on the moor , feverish next day and light-headed . |
| 9 | Dancing had never been like this . |
| 10 | Loneliness and fear and grief had never been like this . |