Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house alone had been like a dream come true after the two-bedroomed flat on the outskirts of Stirling where she and her mother had lived in near penury for the past seven years since Shiona 's father 's death . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In one family the daughters " attended dances " regularly , but these can hardly have been like the dance-halls of the inter-war period . |
| 4 | It could n't really have been like that . |
| 5 | ‘ We thought you would n't have been like you were in that interview unless you knew something that — that you were n't telling people . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ But it could n't have been like that . |
| 8 | ‘ But she could never have been like me with an audience . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd never have been like that in the old days . |