Example sentences of "been [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | But life had not always been that way with Moby . |
| 2 | The reason I cover my head is difficult to explain , because it 's always been that way . |
| 3 | ‘ She has always been that way , ever since she was a little girl , ’ says another of those close to her , Kylie 's great aunt , Mrs Thomas Riddiford . |
| 4 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 5 | Their relationship was civilized and uncomplicated , and she wished it could have been that way too for Vi and Jane . |
| 6 | But it 's always been that way . |
| 7 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 8 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 9 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 10 | It had n't always been that way . |
| 11 | I I 've always been that way inclined , I mean my dad was er he he was a miner , he was a lovely dad , he was lovely man . |
| 12 | It 's been that way ever since I can remember . |
| 13 | It might have been that way for a while , Scum argued , but after a couple of weeks the Boroughs shitkickers moved in , and the game was up . |
| 14 | She had not been that way before . |
| 15 | Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see . |
| 16 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 17 | Been that way all along with you two , ai n't it , Miss Theda ? ’ |
| 18 | A man with unfashionably long hair — it had probably been that way since his own undergraduate days , Loretta guessed — was stabbing the air with his fork . |
| 19 | For as long as I can remember it 's been that way . ’ |
| 20 | I mean , she 's always been that way nervous and |
| 21 | Oh , well I have n't been that way yet . |
| 22 | yes , and I , I do n't know whether I 've been that way , I honestly do n't know right then , so you 're all systems go , that 's the main thing |
| 23 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 24 | Just as , er just as well you did n't go out because erm you could have been half way out there in the plane or whate when erm |
| 25 | If there had only been some way they could have gone in the doors of University College together and come home on the bus each night , or better still got a flat together , life would have been perfect . |
| 26 | Annabel wished that there had been some way young Eve could have been sent to university too . |
| 27 | Jay said : ‘ I do n't know what I 'm doing , it 's never been this way before , ca n't go on anything else , but this time I 'm not going to fuck up . ’ |
| 28 | Had he always been this way ? |
| 29 | No horses have been this way since you drove them off , ’ he said to Allen . |
| 30 | ‘ You have been this way before . |