Example sentences of "[been] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's not been like that for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 4 | It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all . |
| 5 | Worrying his head off , scratching about for the rent , weathering one disappointment after another — it seems to have been like that all the way . |
| 6 | And he 's always been like that . |
| 7 | Aunt Edith , Uncle Walter 's wife , had been like that before she died . |
| 8 | But it had n't been like that . |
| 9 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even if 95 per cent of it 's rubbish — and it 's usually been like that — the other five per cent is always going to be enough . |
| 15 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It has been like that all through the history of the place . |
| 18 | He 's always been like that and he has n't changed . |
| 19 | JB : I painted mostly in my own time , and it 's been like that all along . |
| 20 | It has always been like that . |
| 21 | He 's always been like that . |
| 22 | Something like that , it must have been like that . |
| 23 | Marley must have been like that himself . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The life that I have led has never been like that ! |
| 26 | A lot of the women whose benefit was cut off were back on our books again a few weeks later — which suggested either that their relationships had not really been like that of husband and wife , or that our intrusion had broken up what might have become a more lasting union . |
| 27 | He 'd never have been like that in the old days . |
| 28 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 29 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 30 | He has always been like that , even when he was quite small . ’ |