Example sentences of "[verb] been like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch . |
| 2 | I begin to get some idea of what the Roman games must 've been like . ’ |
| 3 | This is what it has been like during the dry season in Brazil for the past two years . |
| 4 | ‘ Christopher , ’ said Francis to Jane , who was helping him with the sheep the next morning , ‘ has been like a father to me . ’ |
| 5 | In this respect , it has been like Frank 's own career since The Americans . |
| 6 | He has been like this for around 10 months , and feeds normally . |
| 7 | It has been like that all through the history of the place . |
| 8 | If the kidnap was bad enough , the death of his son , and done like that , has been like a bullet in his gut . ’ |
| 9 | Our house has been like Sauchiehall Street . |
| 10 | I wonder what his parents thought of him , but does n't it all boil down to what life at home has been like . |
| 11 | OMG 's work so far ‘ has been like defining that there have to be lights on the the wing tips of aeroplanes . ’ |
| 12 | Taking part in the programme has been like an exciting adventure , discovering the hidden strengths of a community in its parents , and the willingness of Community Mothers to contribute to growth and development within their communities . |
| 13 | ‘ I admit that 's what it has been like in the past . ’ |
| 14 | In the penultimate scene Julia and Paul decide that the summer during which the action of the novel has taken place has been like ‘ an allegorical dream-vision ’ ( 212 ) . |
| 15 | Costs Strathclyde , hit proportionately harder , has been like a man living on starvation rations throughout the eighties . |
| 16 | I also understand that one of the street lights in Lower Dolphinholme is burning continuously and has been like this for some time . |
| 17 | Looking for a win has been like chasing the holy grail … for Swindon … they 've travelled far and wide … some cynics thought they 'd never find it … |
| 18 | RAF Abingdon has been like a ghost town since the summer . |
| 19 | It has been like that , something that was n't happening to us . ’ |
| 20 | Brockbank said : ‘ It has been like that since day one , but many clubs are like that . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I can truthfully say that being with the recent squad has been like being with a family . |
| 22 | He has been like that for since he 's been with her he has |
| 23 | Well there has been like |
| 24 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 25 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 26 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 27 | I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’ |
| 28 | as I told you before I 'd been like it before and it |
| 29 | And there 'd been like a half door going to the shop like there you know . |
| 30 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |