Example sentences of "[vb infin] [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 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 4 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 5 | For the chick , it must have been like suddenly landing in the Sahara . |
| 6 | I took a bus there , but found it hard to tell what the place might have been like . |
| 7 | For a family in the position of hers it would have been like saying one needed air to breathe . |
| 8 | The effect on a racehorse would have been like ‘ a firework exploding in its ear ’ . |
| 9 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 10 | ‘ We thought you would n't have been like you were in that interview unless you knew something that — that you were n't telling people . |
| 11 | For Perkin , making arrows would have been like filing his nails , and he 'd had a stove right in his workroom for the charring . |
| 12 | Pollen spectra of early post-glacial age from Lewis ( Birks and Madsen , 1979 ) , S. Uist ( Bennett and Fossitt , unpublished ) and St Kilda ( Walker , 1984 ) provide a glimpse of what the late-glacial flora and vegetation may have been like . |
| 13 | ‘ Just think , this is what Heymouth must have been like before electricity was discovered , ’ she said . |
| 14 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 15 | If such is the character of these places now , what must they have been like when both men and livestock could only get around them by boat , and parishes such as Dogdyke in Lincolnshire had in the eighteenth century ‘ not two houses communicable for whole winters round ’ . |
| 16 | To visit them is to gain an insight into what many of our own wetlands must have been like . |
| 17 | what things could have been like |
| 18 | It ca n't have been like that really , though I believe records show that the summers in the late Twenties and early Thirties were warm and dry . |
| 19 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 20 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
| 21 | As I picked my way through the frozen woods towards the observation post which commands a unique view over the former battle-ground of the Marne , I wondered what it must have been like to be a soldier . |
| 22 | Sharing a duvet with Mia must have been like sleeping with Unicef . |
| 23 | A trip to Lombok , the next island along , gives a taste of what Bali might have been like before tourism . |
| 24 | For shareholders , it must have been like winning the pools . |
| 25 | Perhaps Mr Smith 's book and the reaction to it imply that accounts should not have been like this : that it should be possible to take them as a straightforward objective statement of performance . |
| 26 | Something like that , it must have been like that . |
| 27 | MESSIEST DESK : Viscount Weymouth 's was reminiscent of what the world must have been like before they invented waste-paper baskets . |
| 28 | Mr Justice Judge told Mrs Salmon , of Park Gate , Hants : ‘ I ca n't imagine what the last 10 years must have been like for you waiting for this to be sorted out . ’ |
| 29 | Sunderland defender Terry Butcher admitted : ‘ If Derby had scored it would have been like the Alamo . |
| 30 | ‘ It must have been like a drug to him . |