Example sentences of "been [prep] a [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mick had always been like a man to her . |
| 4 | ‘ It must have been like a drug to him . |
| 5 | It must have been like a drug to him because he sounded completely obsessed . |
| 6 | His grandmother had been like a mother to him for most of his childhood . |
| 7 | ‘ Christopher , ’ said Francis to Jane , who was helping him with the sheep the next morning , ‘ has been like a father to me . ’ |
| 8 | The next step of adopting a coach as a father figure is more dubious , however , though a great many sportsmen would describe their trainers or managers as Maurice Hope describes Terry Lawless : ‘ He 's been like a father to me ; no , more than a father , actually . ’ |
| 9 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |
| 10 | That would have been like a win to us and I 'm sure a draw would have felt like a failure in the Australian dressing room . |
| 11 | He 's always been like a brother to you . |
| 12 | In fact , you 're a girl who 's going places — once you 've untied yourself from this man who 's been like a millstone around your neck for the last four years . |
| 13 | If the kidnap was bad enough , the death of his son , and done like that , has been like a bullet in his gut . ’ |
| 14 | He 's one of the strongest scrummagers in the game yet has rarely been inside a gym in his life , although a few of his international colleagues swear that he must be a closet trainer . |
| 15 | I 'd never been in a helicopter in my life ; you think , ‘ This is alright , ’ until you get in the bloody thing ! |
| 16 | She herself , praise be , had never been in a run with her … one night 's charity performance of Private Lives at the Arts Theatre had been quite enough , thank you . |
| 17 | He had never been in a wood in his life ; but he was sharp enough to know that he might hide in a bush , or swarm up a tree … ‘ . ) |
| 18 | Their formative training had been in a class of its own . |
| 19 | She 's been in a shop with him I think . |
| 20 | And what about all the old people who have never been in a bank in their lives ? ’ |
| 21 | Auguste broke off , none too pleased to be interrupted on a mere matter of murder when he had been in a world of his own , exalted by the power of cuisine . |
| 22 | She 'd been within a yard of me and not recognized me . |
| 23 | The inevitable question , ‘ What did you do in the hols ? ’ would be greeted with a list of the films I had seen , and the dances and point-to-points I had been to , whereas in fact I was not allowed to go to the cinema ( perhaps for financial reasons ) , had never been to a dance in my life , and did n't even know what a point-to-point was . |
| 24 | Well if we 've been on a drive like you are |
| 25 | Since the establishment of the modern presidency in the 1930s and the massive expansion of governmental activity , congress has always been at a disadvantage in its constant battles with the executive arising from the latter 's superior access to information and expertise . |