Example sentences of "[adv] been like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway sh she phoned me back and she said yes he was , he was dead keen , he wished it 'd 've just been like pop quiz but he 'll go anyway . |
| 2 | And he 's always been like that . |
| 3 | The English , Irish , Scots and Welsh have always been like a family which , despite differences and disagreements , remains loyal . |
| 4 | He has always been like this . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He is a strain — but it 's not what I have to do for him — it 's the way he is — he 's always been like that . ’ |
| 7 | And it occurred to him that it had almost always been like that : he the serious and thoughtful one , and the one he loved mostly careless and unconcerned . |
| 8 | He 's always been like that and he has n't changed . |
| 9 | It has always been like that . |
| 10 | He 's always been like that . |
| 11 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 12 | Mick had always been like a man to her . |
| 13 | But it has not always been like this . |
| 14 | He has always been like that , even when he was quite small . ’ |
| 15 | She had n't always been like that — at least , not when I first knew her . |
| 16 | I 've always been like that . |
| 17 | I 've always been like that . |
| 18 | Julie and I had never fallen out before , and Barbie had always been like a big sister to me , too . |
| 19 | Charles remembered that Gerald had always been like that . |
| 20 | He 's always been like a brother to you . |
| 21 | It had always been like that . |
| 22 | It 's always been like this between us , Jessamy . ’ |
| 23 | Reid has always been like a terrier chasing a bone on the pitch — opponents never get a moment 's peace . |
| 24 | If he looks at the statistics , he will see that it has always been like that . |
| 25 | Has Kirkwall always been like that then ? |
| 26 | I 've always been like that . |
| 27 | I 've always been like that . |
| 28 | Maybe it 's always been like this |
| 29 | Has she always been like that or is this ? |
| 30 | No it 's always been like that . |