Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 2 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 3 | Aunt Edith , Uncle Walter 's wife , had been like that before she died . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | How did she know it had been like that ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It might have been very nearly normal if the movements had been like that . |
| 10 | And he was also sometimes a little overwhelming ( Uncle Dimitri had been like that too ) . |
| 11 | Oh Ven , she wanted to cry — it had been like that for him too ! |
| 12 | It had been like this ever since she and Adam had escaped from Other world ; she seemed to have no strength left to decide anything . |
| 13 | It was a long time since he had been like this . |
| 14 | It had been like this after the barbecue , she recalled . |
| 15 | It had been like this last night . |
| 16 | If only all school trips had been like this . |
| 17 | If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed . |