Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been like " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has always been like this . |
| 2 | It has always been like that . |
| 3 | He has always been like that , even when he was quite small . ’ |
| 4 | Reid has always been like a terrier chasing a bone on the pitch — opponents never get a moment 's peace . |
| 5 | If he looks at the statistics , he will see that it has always been like that . |
| 6 | The life that I have led has never been like that ! |
| 7 | Anyway sh she phoned me back and she said yes he was , he was dead keen , he wished it 'd 've just been like pop quiz but he 'll go anyway . |
| 8 | She had not been kissed for over two years and it was magical ; she was feeling it deeply , listening with everything in her but not remembering , because other kisses had not been like this . |
| 9 | I 've always been like that . |
| 10 | I 've always been like that . |
| 11 | I 've always been like that . |
| 12 | I 've always been like that . |
| 13 | Yes they 've always been like that and they always will be like that . |
| 14 | As I say , I 've always been like it that far for ages . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mick had always been like a man to her . |
| 17 | Julie and I had never fallen out before , and Barbie had always been like a big sister to me , too . |
| 18 | Charles remembered that Gerald had always been like that . |
| 19 | It had always been like that . |
| 20 | I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that . |
| 21 | The two , who had once been like brothers , went out for a drive along the back road between Darlington and Sedgefield . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But it had n't been like that . |
| 24 | It had n't been like any other seance I had ever seen … |
| 25 | It had n't been like that , she wanted to howl . |
| 26 | In the past Stephen had sometimes been like this after being out late on the moor , feverish next day and light-headed . |
| 27 | Dancing had never been like this . |
| 28 | Loneliness and fear and grief had never been like this . |
| 29 | There are others which have not been like this , but have achieved positive things for their members and for their societies , such as democratic socialist parties . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's not been like that for a long time . ’ |