Example sentences of "[vb past] been like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 2 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 3 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 4 | I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’ |
| 5 | as I told you before I 'd been like it before and it |
| 6 | And there 'd been like a half door going to the shop like there you know . |
| 7 | Surinder , a Sikh woman , explained to me what it had been like coming to Britain in the sixties and finding a job in a sweat-shop soon after . |
| 8 | In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department : |
| 9 | His grandmother had been like a mother to him for most of his childhood . |
| 10 | The last year had been like a dream , a fairy tale ; but suddenly , as the cameras retreated and the curtains drew on another quiet Balmoral evening , with the Queen insisting on formal dress for dinner , as she does every night , the dream began to dissolve . |
| 11 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 12 | Aunt Edith , Uncle Walter 's wife , had been like that before she died . |
| 13 | When Emily asked him what it had been like then , his eyes filled with tears . |
| 14 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |
| 15 | To visit their former homes and lands had been like touching history . |
| 16 | Her voice acquired a jeering note , not unfamiliar to Roland , who wondered for the first time what his mother had been like before her disappointment , which in her case was his father and to some extent himself . |
| 17 | This was travelling in style — as one Imperial Airways passenger put it : ‘ I was sorry to get out ; it had been like sitting in a comfortable friendly club . ’ |
| 18 | One can imagine a university student writing two letters — one to his parents and the other to his best friend — in which he said what the rag dance last Saturday had been like . |
| 19 | It was sad when it died ; sad because of the memory of what it had been like when there was still hope . |
| 20 | Maybe it had been like worship then , worship that begins in love and dovetails neatly into hate . |
| 21 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 22 | It had been like kicking the hell out of a two-hole outhouse ; a lot of shit had gotten out and the stink rode free on the four winds . |
| 23 | Two hours spent inside those drab grey walls had been like a life sentence . |
| 24 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |
| 25 | The coffee made by that blasted mother 's boy Sartini had been like water as usual and the Brigadier himself had n't had time to go home and shave . |
| 26 | P. G. Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster had been like that , in the Jeeves stories ; so was Tony Last in Evelyn Waugh 's A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ) , a model country gentleman who loses child , wife , estate and ultimately England itself , marooned as surely as Crusoe in an inland jungle where he is forced to read Dickens 's novels to an illiterate half-caste . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | During this time I was able to develop some understanding of the sorts of backgrounds my interviewees came from , what their hopes , fears , values and experiences of life had been like before they joined the movement and how these might have changed since . |
| 29 | He had been like an animal when they found him . |
| 30 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |