Example sentences of "[verb] been like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been like that all through the history of the place . |
| 2 | It has been like that , something that was n't happening to us . ’ |
| 3 | Brockbank said : ‘ It has been like that since day one , but many clubs are like that . ’ |
| 4 | He has been like that for since he 's been with her he has |
| 5 | He has been like this for around 10 months , and feeds normally . |
| 6 | I also understand that one of the street lights in Lower Dolphinholme is burning continuously and has been like this for some time . |
| 7 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 8 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 9 | At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Something like that , it must have been like that . |
| 12 | Marley must have been like that himself . |
| 13 | He 'd never have been like that in the old days . |
| 14 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 15 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 16 | He should have been like that , happy with a wife and children . |
| 17 | It could n't really have been like that . |
| 18 | ‘ But it could n't have been like that . |
| 19 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 20 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It must have been like this watching a man being broken on the rack , Blanche thought . |
| 23 | Worrying his head off , scratching about for the rent , weathering one disappointment after another — it seems to have been like that all the way . |
| 24 | Aunt Edith , Uncle Walter 's wife , had been like that before she died . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | How did she know it had been like that ? |
| 29 | The weddings I had been to had been like that , quite different from the wedding parties in the villages along the Nile : a deafening noise of drums and flutes , bright hot colours and people saying words I could n't understand . |
| 30 | It might have been very nearly normal if the movements had been like that . |