Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been like " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can imagine a university student writing two letters — one to his parents and the other to his best friend — in which he said what the rag dance last Saturday had been like . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No wonder Matthew had been like a man awaiting sentence . |
| 4 | Dragging him away from the house at Harlaching had been like drawing teeth , and on the drive to the airfield he had stopped the car to pick wild flowers , in the name of God ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Marie Claire had been like my mother . |
| 7 | The laboratory of Davy and Faraday had been like a large kitchen of the early nineteenth century . |
| 8 | RAF Abingdon has been like a ghost town since the summer . |
| 9 | And he was also sometimes a little overwhelming ( Uncle Dimitri had been like that too ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Louise had been like Alice once , and now she wandered round the house like a wraith , her mind never at rest . |